Friday, August 31, 2012

It's all so confusing: If we're told that global warming will make the wets wetter, how does a wet getting dryer qualify as global warming evidence?

Seattle's Record-Setting Dry Stretch; Will It Ever Rain Again? - Seattle - News - The Daily Weekly
As we learned last night watching the Republican National Convention, global warming and climate change are just punch lines, only of concern to America-hating pussies. But that's not to say the weather isn't worth talking about, especially when we're in the midst of a record-setting dry stretch!
Flashback: The wet gets wetter, the dry dryer, thanks to climate change
The fact that hotter air can hold more water underpinned predictions that recent warming of the globe's surface and lower atmosphere could have already strengthened the natural evaporation and precipitation cycle - increasing rainfall where it was higher than average and decreasing it where it was lower.

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