Did you know that HURRICANE season has started in EUROPE?

Question

The ever widening parameters of weather records is a result of climate change! How severe can weather get ,before it's too severe? Every year weather records get shattered by increasing amounts of rain,drought,wind,floods,snow,and freak severe storms! How much is too much?

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/function/0,2145,12215-cid-3160987,00.html

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/29/6055/

Answer 1

I live on a peninsula with the chesapeake bay on one side and the patuxant river on the other.  A few years ago a hurricane came and wiped out the whole town.  It was devastating.  We did what humans do and we rebuild and help each other.  People say, why don't they move?  Where do you go?  Away from your job, family and friends and life as we know it?  To answer your question.  Its horrible, but you can bet someone always has it worse than yourself.

Answer 2

What Europe is experiencing is not a hurricane.  The definition of a hurricane:

A hurricane is a tropical storm with winds that have reached a constant speed of 74 miles per hour or more. The eye of a storm is usually 20-30 miles wide and may extend over 400 miles. The dangers of a storm include torrential rains, high winds and storm surges. A hurricane can last for 2 weeks or more over open water and can run a path across the entire length of the Eastern Seaboard.

Europe is not in the tropics.  There is no eye in the wind storm in Europe, and the storm has not lasted for  two weeks.

Answer 3

"hey,maybe someone in the SE US can tell me how it feels to be under constant threats of tornadoes? or what getting your town ripped up by one is like? or how about the extra snow in the NE US? is every body ready for a hurricane season this year? it could be early,and a doozy!"

There has ALWAYS been the constant threat of tornado's.  ALWAYS.  You apparantly arent from america, so im not sure why you think this is something new.

There is always a flood somewhere in america, there is always a drought somewhere in america, it has always been like that.  I think America has had the reputation of having the most frequent severe weather for quite some time, so why do you think this is something new?

BTW, Im convinced there is only a drought in the SE because of the lack of hurricanes/tropical storms during the last 2 hurricane seasons.

EDIT:  When I saw that article was written by SETH BORENSTIEN my blood started boiling.  That guy has already demonstrated his lack of basic scientific knowledge in some of his previous articles.  Such as " Global warming is causing more humidity", which sounds reasonable, but anyone who knows anything about the greenhouse effect would know that water vapor contributes 70% to the total greenhouse effect, which would suggest the humidity caused the warmth, not the other way around.

Answer 4

Hurricane season in Europe is around September.

Answer 5

No, our capacity to measure different properties of the weather (wind speed, etc...), and the spread of our civilization around the world (which results in more places to have a 'record' anything) in the last 50-100 years results in more "records."

And you keep citing "commondreams.org" like it's some kind of authority.   Why don't you site "prisonplanet" or "moveon.org" while you're at it.

'Sides - haven't you heard?    Global warming now makes hurricanes milder and less frequent.

EDIT - I was at home on 12/31/99 - but because my daughter was 3, not because I was afraid of the world ending.

Answer 6

Wow!  Talk about extremism!  

1) There are no hurricanes in Europe.  It isn't hurricane season yet.

2) Tornadoes occur when there cold Canadian air pushing warm moist gulf air.  This happen every year at this time.  If the climate was really warming, then there would be fewer tornadoes, as there would be less cold dry air.

3) The drought in the SE has ended.  I guess the climate changed back to normal.

There will always be people like you who think the Earth is going to end.  Time will prove you to be wrong, as it has the thousands of doomsayers before you.

Somehow I'll bet you were in your basement, under heavy desks on Dec 31, 1999.