One would be hard pressed to find much desert humidity without being near a significant body of water.
I have never seen it rain more in less humid places than more humid places though. That's a crazy notion.
I agree
My neighbor across the street was just telling me a couple days ago that she didn't go RVing with her hubby because it is too dry there in Anzo Boreggo (spelling?) (desert adjacent to the Salton Sea, northeast of San Diego) and she always is too itchy. It isn't always dry, but obviously deserts tend to be drier and have less humidity and greater temperature extremes.
I remember having a job in El Centro just south of the Salton Sea in August and it was around 115, partly cloudy, and so humid it actually was raining even with the sun out but that was from the so called "monsoons". That was probably the most dangerous heat I ever encountered. Typically deserts are drier IMO, hence the term desert.
While AGW is causing droughts in California, it is causing record rainfall in Seattle. CO2 is a very precise gas.
Actually, the statement you mock is true, and your derision is causing me to laugh at your ignorance. Here's why you are displaying incompetence:
This is a figure of specific humidity as a function of latitude:
http://water.me.vccs.edu/courses/SCT112/...
Specific humidity is the total water content of the air. Not surprisingly, it is tightly correlated with air temperature, so that it decreases rapidly from the equator towards the poles.
Now here is relative humidity (which is sort of the ease at which the air mass can rain) as a function of latitude:
http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/~brianpm/figur...
Note that relative humidity has minimums at about 30 degrees north and south. It is in these zones (roughly) where you find the great deserts of the world. So lack of rain is correlated mostly with low relative humidity, but as you can see from the first figure that the specific humidity, or total amount of water vapor in the air, is well above its minimum value.
Now some people might learn something from those two figures. But I am guessing you won't. This, in a nutshell, is why you're a climate skeptic. Have a nice day!
edit: Like I said, *some* people would look at the figures and learn something. And then there are climate skeptics. People ask me what I think is the main difference between a climate skeptic and a scientist. I tell them that scientists all make egregious errors from time to time. But they learn from that and then they never make that same mistake again. In contrast, a climate skeptic says something totally stupid, and their conviction that they are correct remains adamantine in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary. Now I know responding to your questions has no effect on you in the sense you would understand why you were wrong, but you should know that the reason I do it is in the hope that others can understand why I am so derisive of you. hth
What are you missing?
Some of us were thinking .....
http://sciencequestionswithchris.files.w...
Oops, just read the rest of your question. Welcome to the light side. :)
(Sorry, couldn't help myself. Seems that only the first line of questions show up on my screen until I open the rest of the post. Found the link before reading all of it. Good to see you moving away from the dark side.)
Global Warming ended in 2012, confirmed by our Satelite reports 11/28/2012. Mike
From one of the climate scientists who graciously spend their time educated us fools.
"Well Kano, perhaps it's because you don't know anything about science. Where I live, the areas with the most water vapor ARE the deserts. The areas with the least water vapor get the most rain."
I see now. So deserts are humid, and locations with a bunch of rain are not humid. I must have slept through this in science class.
I have been trying to figure out how more water vapor in the atmosphere mean droughts. I've been so stupid. I thought deserts were dry.
