> How does Climate Change affect our weather?

How does Climate Change affect our weather?

Posted at: 2015-03-12 
Weather is driven, directly or indirectly, by heat. Heat evaporating water, temperature differences between 2 places driving winds, and so on. If you change the distribution of heat in the system, you change weather.

Because we have an imperfect understanding of the mechanisms of weather, we can't be sure exactly how weather will be changed, but some things we strongly suspect will happen/are happening are more droughts, more flooding (no, that's not a contradiction, the droughts and floods will tend to be in different times and/or places), more snow in places that were previously too cold (cold air holds less water), rain instead of snow in places that are now too warm, and either more hurricanes or stronger ones. And, of course, more heat waves.

Climates have always changed and so has the weather. Anyone thinks mankind has had anything to do with it all of the sudden is motivated by an agenda.

Can you point to any climate change in your lifetime? I am 72 years old and I haven't seen any provable climate change in the US and Europe.

I also haven't seen any drastic and sustained changes in the weather.

Makes it more extreme. As the ice caps melt (due to more greenhouse gases), less energy from the sun is reflected back. More energy is absorbed by the sea in particular. This extra energy creates more extreme weather events, which is what has been happening worldwide.

Wow so much recycled propaganda, we have had 16yrs without any temperature rise, hurricanes and tornadoes are well below average, the accumulated cyclone energy is much lower than average.

weather now is much less extreme than usual, but then again we haven't got any climate change either.

example: lets say we lived in the artic. if the ice burgs melted we would have the water rising and floods or if a river floods or 19 inches of rain there's going to be a lot of floods in our crops and in the basements

In many ways.

It will make it all more extreme.