Comments on: The Changing Climate of Atlantic Storms and How The Are Reported https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/03/the-changing-climate-of-atlantic-storms-and-how-the-are-reported/ Tue, 06 Sep 2016 14:39:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Brainstorms https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/03/the-changing-climate-of-atlantic-storms-and-how-the-are-reported/#comment-464172 Tue, 06 Sep 2016 14:39:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=22842#comment-464172 Naming hurricanes after Climate Deniers? I reckon they sure should.

Only the big ones, the ones that make landfall and do a lot of expensive damage. And kill people.

Such as: “Hurricane Katrina” would have been renamed “Hurricane Anthony Watts” as it made landfall. That sort of thing.

]]> By: Eric Lund https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/03/the-changing-climate-of-atlantic-storms-and-how-the-are-reported/#comment-464171 Tue, 06 Sep 2016 14:26:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=22842#comment-464171 The NWS has changed its policy so that the National Hurricane Center continues to issue forecasts on post-tropical cyclones that are still a potential threat to land, such as Hermine. This change is intended to prevent much of the confusion from Sandy making its extratropical transition so close to landfall: many people in New Jersey and New York didn’t get the warnings because the warnings were issued by a different NWS agency.

]]> By: StevoR https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/03/the-changing-climate-of-atlantic-storms-and-how-the-are-reported/#comment-464170 Tue, 06 Sep 2016 04:57:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=22842#comment-464170 Thinking how hurricanes are reported this is a classic if now relatively old proposal which actually makes a lot of sense :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xua78w7e4DA

(Starts @ the 20 second mark into the clip. With petition.)

Naming hurricanes after Climate Deniers? I reckon they sure should.

]]> By: Hank Roberts https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/03/the-changing-climate-of-atlantic-storms-and-how-the-are-reported/#comment-464169 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 23:54:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=22842#comment-464169 I came across work by Schmitz and Pujalte years ago, when started reading after I first learned (from some Spanish forestry scientists, on sci.environment I think) about planning ahead for managing wildland differently to take into account the changes coming with climate change.

The sudden change in rainfall that led to a large sedimentary outflow due to greatly increased inland erosion has worried me ever since.

One such paper:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240669718_Sea-level_humidity_and_land-erosion_records_across_the_initial_Eocene_thermal_maximum_from_a_continental-marine_transect_in_northern_Spain
Sea-level, humidity, and land-erosion records across the initial Eocene thermal maximum from a continental-marine transect in northern Spain
Article?in?Geology 31(8) · August 2003?
DOI: 10.1130/G19527.1

Then someone pointed out that the currently dry southwest US also had huge erosion fans below most of the mountains, which hadn’t carried water for centuries and which have been built up in the cheerful expectation that whatever caused all that sediment to flow out of the mountains can’t happen again.

Rates of change …. if more intense precipitation is expected, what’s to be done?

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