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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (19469)	1/10/2008 12:35:23 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 36921

In simple minded terms the tigie will still never understand, global warming means more and more lighter warm humid air will diffuse over higher latitudes replacing denser cold dry air and that means less violent weather. Stop being so stupid. Do you live in a cave? You have never seen a cold high pressure area come down and accross over warm humid air mass and weather radar shows violent thunderstorms for hundreds of miles along the front. weatherphotography.net

To: TigerPaw who wrote (19469)	1/10/2008 10:04:27 AM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

I'd guess the biggest possible source of more extreme weather is that a warmer planet has more moisture in the air, and that moisture stores more heat per unit volume, and is very transportable. Hence there is more chance of significant energy differences meeting each other. If you look at the discussion on tropical storm strength you'll see that scientists have quite the range of opinions, and that the mechanisms are more complex. It's not just ocean surface temps, but also what prevailing wind conditions do, and so it is not just directly total energy content.