Global squirming

[melchar]

For the love of Dog people - what does it take to get through to the masses that 'global warming' doesn't mean 90 degrees in wintertime, but that weather systems become more active?

Rainfall patterns change, you'll have tornadoes in January and storms will become more violent as it gets warmer, with worse flooding in low-lying regions. Surely THIS can be communicated in a sound bite.

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[melchar.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have justification. I read a huge amount, from many sources - and have been interested in the whole climate 'thing' since the 70's. [This is based on a geology unit in college, where the professor was certain that the current interglacial period we are in was ending - and we were about to go into another Ice Age. Because of that I say 'go full speed global warming' because a warmer earth is a better place for humans than an earth gripped by glaciation.]

The bad part of earth warming is drought, glacial melting and rising ocean levels. Droughts are just bad business pespecially when one lives in a desert]. The rise of only an inch or two or ocean levels will cause more flooding and deaths in low-lying countries [like the Indian sub-continent & much of Indonesia].

The good part of earth warming is expanding growing zones in regions currently gripped by permafrost. Much of Northern Europe, Eurasia & Canada stand to benefit from this.

But it is the overall trend of weather patterns I hearken to. For example, tornadoes have increased in number and severity / intensity on the Fujita scale over the last 100 years. A good chart for this can be found at = http://www.spc.noaa.gov/archive/tornadoes/ustdbmy.html