Why do GW alarmists tout record drought and flooding as results of GW? I mean, with record droughts, where is all the flooding going to come from. With the flooding, where will the droughts be? Plus, with all the melting ice caps and that extra water and such high temperatures, do they not think that water will still be here or will it miraculously go into outer space?

Very serious questions for a very serious fantasy.

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5 months ago

Oh, so the entire world will become tropical.,.. I get it.

Increased heat increases evaporation rates, which dries out marginal areas (such as the advancing edges of the Sahara and Gobi deserts, Australia, the Southwestern U.S.).

The additional evaporation puts more water vapor in the air, which leads to increased flooding where the water falls (currently experienced in the Mississippi drainage, China, etc).

It%26#039;s not possible to nail any one weather event down to climate change, but when they%26#039;re observed with increased severity and frequency we%26#039;ll be able to look back at that record and say %26quot;we%26#039;ve arrived there%26quot;. So technically speaking, to be completely accurate people should be saying that current events they%26#039;re talking about are %26quot;consistent with%26quot; the predictions of incrfeased drought adn flooding, not that they%26#039;re necessarily %26quot;caused by%26quot; global warming (although they may well be, we simply can%26#039;t accurately identify them as such as they occur).

You are familiar with the concepts of deserts and rainy areas, aren%26#039;t you, and that they both currently occur simultaneously on the same planet? We%26#039;ll simply get more of those extremes.

higher and higher tides;
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080330/ts...


oh, you want droughts? i would link to one of the many Australian pieces (drought And flood in the same place, what fun!) but maybe something closer to home might have more effect on you;
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory....

Could you be more specific? Who are the touters? Oh well. I%26#039;m sure they%26#039;ll show themselves.

My understanding of what the predictions about weather are is (1) increased precipitation in areas that typically have precipitation, due to increased evaporation, particularly at the equator (2) Intensification and expansion of drought areas due to heat, and the same natural barriers that made them drought areas originally.

Longer term, the surface area of the oceans will grow when the ice has all melted, contributing to evaporation even more. Eventually if you follow it out you get the set of conditions thought to prevail in the very early earth, with temperatures too high for liquid water to exist, continuous rain, evaporating when or before it hits the ground.

Water distribution is reorganized due to climate change caused by global warming. It%26#039;s that simple.

Global warming causes precipitation to change. Higher temperatures cause evaporation to happen faster, clouds to form more quickly and release their precipitation more quickly. This concentrates more rain in fewer areas, which means some places will see floods while others see droughts.

The amount of precipitation is normal. There are more people moving into areas that are prone to flood or drought and have done so many, many times over the millennium.

The only difference is that there are more people effected, and news travels faster then back then.