On my Facebook weather page, I've been
fielding a few questions from some of you....on Harvey and Climate Change. Y'all
have seen the media and others taking about how Harvey was caused by climate
change. The talk is that human caused
global warming has lead to weaker prevailing winds, along with the jet stream
tracking farther north. Whoever the media is talking to is saying, that these
are the changes that caused Harvey to drift around and stall over southeast
Texas, leading to the catastrophic flooding we've see in Texas. These people
are also saying, In all of U.S. history there has never been a hurricane like
Harvey.
My answer to this is baloney.
I've talked
about the gobbledygook that two sides in the climate debate are using, and how
they use it to twist the science and fact one way or the other. Both sides are using junk science. Many
times, I've stated my problems with a lot of the manmade climate change agenda. I'm
not saying that human activities don't contribute to climate change. But I believe cyclical patterns and natural variations have played a much bigger role than human activities. But I won't go down the path of stating my objections to human caused global warming, in the current climate debate, I've said that all before.
As for
climate change causing Harvey to act the way he did. There is nothing to
support that idea.
We've seen
hurricanes bigger than Harvey, we've seen typical cyclones loop and meander
around many times in past years, we've
seen tropical cyclones drop enormous amounts of rain before, As in everything to
do with weather, it has all happened before. If none of these other times
weren't caused by human caused climate change. Then why is Harvey a result of
climate change?
. A couple of years back we had Hurricane Patricia,
her winds were 200- 225 mph before weakening before landfall. It has been Sixty-one years since the first
and only Hurricane Hunter plane crash in the Atlantic Basin, brought down by a
tropical system it was investigating. That tropical system was Hurricane Janet
in Sept of 1955. We had the Great Galveston Hurricane, the Florida Keys Labor
Day Hurricane of 1935, The Great New England Hurricane/Long Island Express in
1938, the Great Miami Hurricane in 1926, I can go on and on.
Both of the above came from Weatherbell.
The Galveston
Hurricane in1900 was the deadliest hurricane to ever hit the United States and
caused between 8000 and 12000 deaths. The same people who say Sandy was a freak
storm caused by climate change, seem to forget all about the September 15, 1944
Great Atlantic Hurricane. Just as they forget: Hurricane Camille in August of
1969, Hurricane Hugo in September 1989, Hurricane Audrey in 1957, Hurricane Andrew in1992, Hurricane
Flora in 1963. Hurricane
Flora dropped 100.4 inches of rain when it meandered over Cuba. Hurricane Ginny of October 1963
I can post many other images of hurricanes meandering and doing strange things.
Still not
far enough in the past....well we had: Colonial Hurricane of 1635, The Great
Chesapeake Bay Hurricane of 1769, The Great Coastal Hurricane of 1785, there
are dozens of others.
I've talked
about the great East Coast Hurricanes of the 1950's and 60's, with names of
Hazel, Connie, Diane, and Donna. So I ask again if none of these were caused by
global warming and climate change then why is Harvey?