Climate Change: "Supplying more juice to the event"

'More juice' in Brazos Bend State Park.



This has been a month of extreme weather around the world.  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/29/2015)

Texas state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon attributes the heavy rainfall to an unusually southern fork in the jet stream, a stuck stationary front and El Nino, and says the downpours have probably been made slightly worse by climate change.

For every degree Celsius the air is warmer, it can hold 7 percent more moisture. That, Nielsen-Gammon says, "is supplying more juice to the event."

While it is too early to connect one single event to man-made warming, scientific literature shows "that when it rains hard, it rains harder than it did 20 to 30 years ago," says University of Georgia meteorology professor Marshall Shepherd.

'More juice' in Bastrop State Park



'More juice' in San Marcos, Texas.



'More juice' in Houston.



'More juice' in Oklahoma.



'More juice' in Arkansas.



Other climate change posts:
Worldwide in April 2015, temperatures were above average.  (5/28/2015)
Record global heat continues.  (5/8/2015)
Is it any surprise that the education-bashing Scott Walker appears to be the favorite among Iowa climate change deniers.  (5/7/2015)
No Longer Mighty, the Rio Grande is Disappearing.  (4/15/2015) 
NOAA global temperature analysis: 2 months into 2015, we're experiencing the 2nd warmest year on record.  (3/18/2015)
It's a big (and warming) world out there: January 2015 is 2nd warmest since 1880.  (2/20/2015) 
Republicans need to generate a new climate change meme.  (1/21/2015)

2014 is the warmest year.  (1/18/2015)
As the world warms: NOAA global analysis for October 2014.  (11/26/2014)

The Global Window: Worldwide it was a record warm September.  (10/27/2014)

‘I’m Not A Scientist’: A Complete Guide To Politicians Who Plead Ignorance On Climate Change.  (Think Progress, 10/3/2014)

35,000 walruses with nowhere to go tell us that climate change is real.  (10/7/2014) 

In the news:  Argo floats.  (8/13/2014)

Climate change/ocean acidification: Washington's conservative legislators fiddle while the state's baby oysters die by the billions.  (8/4/2014)

Climate change: Somebody can't see the forest for the trees.  (7/29/2014) 

Worldwide it was a very warm June.  (7/23/2014)

Extreme weather, climate change: The Pacific Northwest edition.  (7/22/2014)

This isn't what Gene McDaniels had in mind (Unh, unh, unh, unh, unh, unh).  (5/21/2014)

In this case, you'll find the Crazy, a hidebound ideologue, in room 205 of the Russell Senate Office Building.  (5/14/2014)

Sunny-day flooding in Miami Beach: The everyday reality and the political denial.  (5/9/2014)

The rising sea levels of Bangladesh.  (3/30/2014)

Cold enough for you?  (3/9/2014)

Meteors, glaciers, and climate change.  (1/14/2014)

Climate change spurs northward growth of mangroves.  (1/1/2014)

Dear Skeptics, Climate change is already driving informed business decisions.  (12/15/2013)

Florida's vulnerable coastline.  (11/12/2013)

Promoting the need for regionalism among nations along the Bay of Bengal coast.  (10/14/2013)

Climate change not taking a back seat everywhere in Wisconsin.  (9/27/2013)

Climate change deniers continue to jump on the Daily Mail crazy train (or Oops! they did it again).  (9/25/2013) 
Cal Thomas: This climate change bulletin just in from the Daily Mail.  (9/24/2013) 
Cal Thomas needs a research assistant.  (9/23/2013)

Climate change, as a matter of fact.  (8/31/2013)

Outagamie County residents will be better served with a more proactive approach.  (8/20/2013)

Here's what got Ron Johnson's undies in a bundle (NoRoJo in 2016, chapter 12).  (8/15/2013)

Georgia's anti-science climate denier caucus.  (7/31/2013)

Here's a comforting headline.  (3/8/2013)

Making Fox News-Inspired Jokes About Climate Change? Consider Australia.  (3/5/2013)

The New Normal: Living With Extreme Weather (Northeastern U.S. Edition).  (2/10/2013)

1975: "There's a new ice age coming, but I wouldn't want to predict when.".  (1/27/2013)

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Embargoes Use of Phrase "Climate Change"?  (12/31/2012)

Can you say 'climate change'?  (11/28/2012)

As you already know, Fox News is shameless.  (9/29/2012)

Dear George, It will take more than denial to get over climate change in Greenland.  (9/27/2012)

Climate change results in Coast Guard's "unprecedented" deployment to North Shore of Alaska.  (7/23/2013)

Weather history is made in the Northeast.  (10/30/2011)

Climate change in the American mind.  (6/8/2011)

Stuff you won't see on Fox News.  (1/8/2010)