Cholera and feces and drought, oh my: An entertaining, incoherent rant from alarmist Kevin Trenberth

Exclusive interview: NCAR’s Trenberth on the link between global warming and extreme deluges « Climate Progress

JR: Yes, “Straw that breaks the camels back” is a phrase you used about Katrina as I recall.

KT: Again it’s the same sort of thing, where there’s an enhancement, there’s a global warming component.
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KT: The key number is this number in this case, which is pretty rock solid. For a one degree Fahrenheit increase in air temperature the water holding capacity goes up by four percent. Pretty close to four percent. And so if the sea temperatures go up by one degree, as they have, then the air temperatures probably go up a little bit more than that in fact. And so when you start talking about three, four, five degrees then you’re talking about twenty percent increases in the water vapor in the atmosphere.

The way in which we think this is going to happen is that the intervals between storms will be longer, but then when you do have the storms they are apt to be a doozie. When it rains it pours, so to speak. So you can really get deluges, and there are times when you have longer dry spells in between so there’s the risk of drought if you happen to miss these storms. And they are very much of a hit and miss nature. But then when you do get hit by them suddenly you’ve got a deluge.
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KT: If they’re combined in that nature then you have water quality problems and you can get disease and cholera and things like that which can come out of that kind of situation. It’s the same thing even in open fields, that a lot more water gets transported across the surface of the field, and so all of the feces from animals can contaminate the water and cause various kinds of water contamination problems.

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[Kevin Trenberth, Oct '09] Well I have my own article on where the heck is global warming? We are asking that here in Boulder where we have broken records the past two days for the coldest days on record. We had 4 inches of snow. The high the last 2 days was below 30F and the normal is 69F, and it smashed the previous records for these days by 10F. The low was about 18F and also a record low, well below the previous record low. This is January weather (see the Rockies baseball playoff game was canceled on saturday and then played last night in below freezing weather).
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The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't.