Posting 'titles for me to google' is not supporting your beliefs. You are placing the burden of the research on your opponent. That is pathetic. As you are likely aware, if I do a google search I am likely to get thousands of responses (like you do for almost any google search). Rather than continually saying 'you google it' how about you actually just simply LINK us to whatever data it is you are using???
again... posting an article does not provide evidence. It simply shows an author who is of the same opinion as you. POST THE LINK TO THE DATA. THE DATA. THE DATA. Maybe with the repetition you will actually comprehend it this time.
Let me guess... in reality you are CK... because the only thing clear on this thread is that you continually duck providing any data to support your assertions.
CK??
Actually I did post teasers. All you had to do was google them and they would pop up.
OK. Lets see.....When I was starting to collect data? I used links but then the link would say page not found. Then I started collecting actual pages but then I had a hard time finding links. Then I collected articles, plus the link. Therefore I have alot of articles without links supporting my arguments.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/2005-09-15-globalwarming-hurricanes_x.htm
See? I cant find the link to this one. So I will post the entire article.
Experts: Global warming behind 2005 hurricanes
MONTEREY, California (Reuters) -- The record Atlantic hurricane season last year can be attributed to global warming, several top experts, including a leading U.S. government storm researcher, said on Monday.
"The hurricanes we are seeing are indeed a direct result of climate change and it's no longer something we'll see in the future, it's happening now," said Greg Holland, a division director at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
Holland told a packed hall at the American Meteorological Society's 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology that the wind and warmer water conditions that fuel storms that form in the Caribbean are "increasingly due to greenhouse gases. There seems to be no other conclusion you can logically draw."
His conclusion will be debated throughout the week-long conference, as other researchers present opposing papers that say changing wind and temperature conditions in the tropics are due to natural events, not the accumulation of carbon dioxide emissions clouding the Earth.
Many of the experts gathered in the coastal city of Monterey, California, are federal employees. The Bush administration contends global warming is an unproven theory.
While many of the conference's 500 scientists seem to agree that a warming trend in the tropics is causing more and stronger hurricanes than usual, not all agree that global warming is to blame.
Some, like William Gray, a veteran hurricane researcher at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, attributed the warming to natural cycles.
Gray said he believes salinity buildups and movements with ocean currents cause warming and cooling cycles. He predicted the Caribbean water will continue to warm for another five to 10 years, then start cooling.
More warming to come
Whatever the cause, computer projections indicate the warming to date -- about one degree Fahrenheit (half a degree Celsius) in tropical water -- is "the tip of the iceberg" and the water will warm three to four times as much in the next century, said Thomas Knutson, explaining projections from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey.
Adam Lea, a postdoctoral student at Britain's University College London in Dorking, Surrey, presented research based on British, German, Russian and Canadian studies that concludes half of the increased hurricane activity in the tropics could be attributed to global warming.
Holland, director of the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division of the federal research center, said tropical storm anomalies in the 1940s and 1950s can be explained by natural variability.
But he said carbon dioxide started changing traceable patterns in the 1970s and by the early 1990s, the atmospheric results were affecting the storm numbers and intensities.
"What we're seeing right now in global climate temperature is a signature of climate change," said Holland, a native of Australia. "The large bulk of the scientific community say what we are seeing now is linked directly to greenhouse gases."
Hurricane Katrina, which tore onto the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts on August 29, was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane in 77 years and the costliest ever, with property damages estimated at $75 billion.
This year, the weather service's Tropical Prediction Center expects more hurricanes than usual, but not as many as last year's record 14.
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Here is another. I will post all of them if you like.
China sees warming behind extreme weather
Costs are recognized, but nation won't put mandatory cap on emissions
Reuters
Updated: 12:43 a.m. ET Aug 29, 2006
BEIJING - Storms, floods, heat and drought that have killed more than 2,000 people in China this year are a prelude to weather patterns likely to become more extreme due to global warming, according to the director of the Beijing Climate Center.
China was braced for further hardship as rising temperatures worldwide trigger increasingly extreme weather, Dong Wenjie, director-general of the climate center, said.
“The precise causes of these phenomena aren’t easy to determine on their own,” Dong told Reuters of meteorological disasters that have caused $20 billion worth of damage this year. “But we know the broad background is global warming. That’s clear. It’s a reminder that global warming will bring about increasingly extreme weather events more often.”
A study issued by China’s chief climate scientists last year predicted that mean temperatures across China were likely to climb, forcing major changes in rainfall, desertification, river flows and crop production.
Yet even as China approaches the United States as the world’s largest producer of the manmade greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere, Beijing is set against mandatory ceilings on its emissions, experts said.
“China’s preoccupation is economic development and growth,” said Paul Harris, of Lingnan University in Hong Kong, who studies climate change policy. “It seems Chinese policy-makers are beginning to take warnings about global warming on board. But they certainly don’t want to sign on to compulsory caps.”
Global warming may increase rainfall in China’s north, but increased temperatures and evaporation there are likely to offset much or all of that, Lin Erda, a climate expert at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, told Reuters.
Drop in farm output likely
Without corrective action, nationwide agricultural production was likely to fall between 5 and 10 percent, he said.
With its vast and arid western half, China is no stranger to drought. But, unusually, this year’s extreme heat and dry had struck the geographical basin enclosing Sichuan province and Chongqing municipality, said Dong.
Until now, that area has experienced a slight fall in average temperatures over past decades, possibly due to a protective umbrella of pollution or clouds.
But this year much of Sichuan and Chongqing has suffered record-breaking hot days and the lowest rainfall for nearly 60 years, and on Sunday Sichuan forecast another burst of 100 degree Fahrenheit days and withering drought.
Whether this shift was a one-off or augured a long-term change remained to be seen, said Dong. Part of the explanation appeared to lie in shrinking snow cover on the neighboring Tibet-Qinghai plateau, he said.
But even as China feels the effects of global warming, it is unwilling to cap its greenhouse gas emissions, saying responsibility for tackling global warmings lies with developed countries that are -- per capita -- still much bigger polluters.
China is a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty intended to rein in greenhouse gas emissions. But as a developing country, China is exempt, for now, from the limits on greenhouse emissions that wealthy countries are supposed to abide by.
“We’re willing to limit and transform industry and our energy structure by ourselves,” Dong said. “But as a matter of fairness, it has to be voluntary, not mandatory, because we’re a developing country.”
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