Research to show UK flooding is from global warming

I have just read about the fact that, for the first time, computer modelling has been able to detect a "human fingerprint" on the increased rainfall that Britain is seeing. They compare climate simulations run with and without anthropogenic GHG inputs, and the difference that shows up is our "human fingerprint". It has been seen in temperature predictions, but the research that will be published this week will be the first time the human fingerprint is said to have been detected in rainfall predictions. It is essential to note that what is happening now — and increasing trend to heavier rainfall patterns over Britain — is what is claimed to have been predicted by the research.

If this turns out to be substantial research maybe it will stop professional denialists like Andrew Bolt and Tim Blair carrying on like school kids with a fart cushion every time a cold snap ensues.

clipped from environment.independent.co.uk It's official: the heavier rainfall in Britain is being caused by climate change, a major new scientific study will reveal this week... More intense rainstorms across parts of the northern hemisphere are being generated by man-made global warming, the study has established for the first time ­ an effect which has long been predicted but never before proved. The new study, carried out jointly by several national climate research institutes using their supercomputer climate models, including the Hadley Centre of the UK Met Office, does not prove that any one event, including the rain of the past few days in Britain, is climate-change related. But it certainly supports the idea, by showing that in recent decades rainfall has increased over several areas of the world, including the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere, and linking this directly, for the first time, to global warming caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases. Global Warning Climate Change Energy

Britain's great flood a reminder of more to come

An unusual meteorological event is responsible for this summer's weather in the UK, not global warming. A shift to the south in the position of the jet stream brought a heatwave to eastern Europe and storms normally found in higher latitudes to England.

But global warming is expected to cause more and more flooding in the UK into the near future.

"Extreme rainfall events are likely to get more extreme and it will lead to flooding," he says. "Although it is hard to predict exactly where the floods will occur on a local scale, people need to start thinking about whether we are ready for more of these."

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk Floods are scary things. And they are due to get a lot scarier. Climate scientists predict that by the end of the century storms like those that have swept across England this summer will hit Britain far more frequently. National average rainfall will increase by around 20 per cent, and much of that will fall in extreme, torrential downpours bringing a month's worth of rain in a single day. The reason is that, as the climate warms, the atmosphere above our heads will be able to hold more and more moisture which, when it is eventually released as rain, means much heavier rain, explains Peter Stott, a climate scientist at the Met Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Change.

Potential extent of flooding by 2080: Click to enlarge

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Didn't England experience similar flooding a month or so ago? Weird.

clipped from www.smh.com.au THOUSANDSs of people awoke in makeshift shelters in southern and central England after abandoning their cars on flooded highways or leaving trains disrupted by torrential rains. At Bampton in the west of Oxfordshire more than 300 homes flooded and 1200 left without power. Helen Rossington of MeteoGroup UK said: "Average rainfall for the whole of July is about 35 millimetres. But some places have had as much as 85 millimetres in a few hours." RAF troops from Kinloss, in Scotland, helped evacuate 60 people from Sedgeberrow in Worcestershire who were stranded after the River Isbourne burst its banks. Many motorists were stranded in the south-western areas of Worcester and Gloucester. Some were forced to remain in their vehicles overnight and others chose to abandon their cars. In Gloucestershire, around 2000 people spent last night in emergency shelters after being forced from their cars or homes due to the flooding. Global Warning Climate Change Energy

Twenty three die in rain storms and floods in China

Thousands made homeless.

clipped from www.beawareofglobalwarming.org Millions suffer as storms in China kill at least 23 (Reuters) Reuters - Rain storms and floods have killed at least 23 people across southern China in recent days and made thousands homeless, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. Original post by Yahoo! News Search Results for global warming Global Warning Climate Change Energy

Wild weather disrupting oil shipping in Oman

Cola shipping activity at Newcastle, Australia, the world's largest coal port, is being disrupted by wild storms. Sar, a port in Eastern Oman, is facing similar difficulties with the weather.

clipped from www.theoildrum.com DrumBeat: June 9, 2007 Posted by Leanan on June 9, 2007 - 9:31am Topic: Miscellaneous Port city of Sur is recovering Oman's eastern port city of Sur and adjoining areas in the Sharqiya region, which bore the brunt of tropical cyclone Gonu's fury when it struck the Sultanate soon after midnight on Wednesday, was recovering fast, key officials of the National Committee for Disaster Control (NCDC) said here yesterday. ...The Ministry of Oil and Gas said it was doing its best to produce and supply enough quantities of fuel. A shortage at petrol pumps, it added, was caused not by shortfall in output, but by tankers unable to reach filling stations because of transportation difficulties. Global Warning Climate Change Energy

NSW battered by a 1 in 30 year storm

I heard on the news that seven people have died in the same storm that has driven a coal tanker aground in Nobby's beach in Newcastle. The urgency seems to have come off that crisis, it is not breaking up, but the weather is set to get worse.

clipped from www.smh.com.au Saturday June 9, 2007 945pm AEST Weather set to get worse 7:50pm | Newcastle and Hunter Valley residents braced for more severe weather after enduring the brunt of a one-in-30-year storm. Photos: Storms lash NSW Search continues for missing father Bodies of a mother and her three children found after road collapsed beneath car. Salvage team boards beached ship

Blogger Vuivee's reaction to weather.

Sydney storms drive oil tanker aground

Well, the drought has broken. I can hear it pounding outside my window. The rain has been intense for the last three days.

clipped from www.smh.com.au Fears ship could break up Huge bulk carrier with 700 tonnes of fuel runs aground in Newcastle. Audio slideshow: Pasha Bulker aground Video: View from the shore Iemma declares natural disaster Wild weather holiday warning Environment at risk Video: Rescue under way Photos: Winds pound Sydney Global Warning Climate Change Energy

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And on the seventh day the climate has lost its cool in Greece, its waters in Australia, and sent Californians surf snowboarding. In their cars. And at Manchester airport landing planes did almost loseth their runways.

And we all saw that it was not good: :::[SMH Video]

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