Global Warming Is a Cause of This Year’s Extreme Weather

Noah would roll over in hes grave if he read sharons rant. I love the picture also
The Mega Tornado! The IT guys at Newsweek going nuts with PhotoShop.Right now I would be much more concerned about the global diaster thats the Middle East. that i know is man made. forcast is Today Raining bullets and bombs with a
chance of suside bombings by night fall, Tommorow chance of heavey Bombing of Iran and possable nuclear testing by North Korea. The Five Day forcast Right after todays Sports...........

Why are ditto-head types so threatened by the idea that our actions have contributed to the reaction of global warming?

Another good one . (We are having earth quakes because we are pulling out to much oil. The earth needs it for lube. lol lol lol Idiots. Ask Al Gore how much he has made from oil? Ask him how much stocks he owns in oil ? Oil men have been giving money to Green Peace . The ajenda= to say we can't build new refineries because of all the Eco heads. Now we can justify $10.00 a gall oil prices.

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My opinion of Sharon Begley's writing is almost low enough for me to cancel my subscription to an otherwise great magazine. Begley can't seem to write anything without sensationalizing it. She calls natural weather cycles a "pretense"? Really?

Explain to me, now that the earth has been cooling sense 1998 and the temperature is roughly back to what it was in the 1970's how warming had any effect of the floods in the midwest. Global warming is the biggest scam going these days. Anyone running around yelling global warming should be treated like a person that yells fire in a crowded theater and silenced.

By the way I have a BS in Meteorology and a MS in Environmental Engineering with almost 20 years of experience. Just in case anyone was wondering about my credentials.

Regardless of Global Warming some of the facts in the story are woefully incorrect at worst or are misleading at best. Let me provide a few examples:
1. The author tries to connect long term drought in the southwestern US with warm Pacific Ocean water temperatures caused by "Global Warming". This is dead wrong! Unusually cold water in Pacific and unusually warm water in the North Atlantic leads to drought in the southwestern US. These are very well documented cycles where each ocean undergoes multiple decades in which it remains warmer or colder than normal. When the cycles line up you get increased drought, the East may see increased hurricanes and so forth.
2. I suspect the author???s intent was altered by an Editor???s pen when they made changes to the paragraph containing information about the cause of flooding in the Midwest. The meteorologist at Iowa State got the facts correct but a leap of journalistic freedom followed when it is implied that since global warming is shifting the jet stream north that it allows more tropical storms to impact the northern US???This has nothing to do with the flooding in the Midwest this year!
3. Reports on hurricane intensity and global warming are hotly contested in the scientific community. Dr Grey of CSU strongly discounts a connection to global warming. Even Kerry Emanuel who started this discussion in 2005 now has doubts about some of his conclusions as well.

I could go on but remember a 1 in 100 year flood event does not mean it only happens once every 100 years but rather means that there is a 1 in 100 chance that any year will have a flood of this magnitude. In the USA we have weather rcords dating back 50 years or so that are dependable and another 50 years earlier that are sketchy. We do not have accurate records of events for most areas of the nation before 1900, don't even get me started on the rest of the world's records.

The author's short sighted view of geological history is simply astounding. The great Mississippi floods of the 1930s, the dust bowl era, and the great Galveston Hurricane come to mind as examples conveniently overlooked by the author.

I find it all so frightening. I saw on the BBC's program Planet Earth this scientist telling an anecdote about speaking to a bunch of cattle men, that he asked the men if they'd noticed there hadn't been a frost on the plain all season, and every cattle man nodded his head. These men understood global warming. I think the tide is definitely turning. I found this article inspirational also: http://www.brightfuture.us/new/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=158&Itemid=58

After writing article after article claiming there is expert consensus that humans cause global warming and the experts that disagree with the consensus are stooges of big oil the writer is blaming the experts because she has been exposed. First problem: the writer says that warming temperatures cause more powerful hurricanes. Actually while that was the long time consensus in the last few years consensus has reversed on this point. Second Problem: The writer claims that because that this warming is ???different??? from cyclical warming this warming must be man made. Taking the arguable claim that that this warming is different from past warming???s at face value that at there are least three possibilities. A. The writes is correct that the cause is human. B. That the warming is part of a cycle we do not understand. C. The cyclical climate change theory is incorrect ( that theory like human cause relies on human fed computer modeling and if a and b happened and c is the result c must have happened because of a and b). Third Problem: The writer claims that there have been two 500 year floods in the last 15 years and other similar type occurrences therefore humans must be causing it. How does she know that? In the last 15 years we had first everybody taping and now downloading every occurrence on youtube. Nobody was recording to see if there were similar floods occurring between say 993 nd 1008