Headline September 19, 2018/ '' 'MOTHER EARTH UNLIVABLE?' ''

'' 'MOTHER EARTH UNLIVABLE?' ''

MAYORS - GOVERNORS - ENTREPRENEURS - CEOs, investors and celebrities delivered a double-edged message Friday at the close of a - Climate Summit in San Francisco :

Global warming is making the planet unlivable..........*but we know how to fix it*.

We are using the sky as an open sewer, it's insane,'' former US vice president AI Gore told the conference, noting that humanity belches 110 million tons of heat-trapping pollution into the atmosphere every day.

''Will we change? That's what the Global Climate Action Summit is all about.   

A WARMER world makes for nastier hurricanes. Scientists say they are wetter, possess more energy and intensify faster.

Their storm surges are more destructive because climate change has already made the seas rise. And lately, the storms seem to be stalling more often and thus dumping more rain.

Study after study shows that climate change in general makes hurricanes worse. But determining the role of global warming in a specific storm such as Hurricane Florence or Typhoon Mangkhut is not so simple - at least not without detailed statistical and computer analysis.

The Associated Press consulted with 17 meteorologists and scientists who study climate change, hurricanes or both.

A few experts remain cautious about attributing climate global warming to a single event, but most of the scientists clearly see the hand of humans in Florence.

Global warming didn't cause Florence, they say. But it makes the system a much bigger danger.

''Florence is yet another poster child for the human-supercharged storms that are becoming more common and destructive as the planet warms,'' said Jonathan Overpeck, dean of the environment school at University of Michigan.

He said the risk extends beyond the Atlantic Ocean, such as Typhoon Mangkhut, which hit the Philippines on Friday.

For years, when asked about climate change and specific weather events, scientists would refrain from drawing clear connections.

But over the past few years, the new field of attribution studies has allowed researchers to statistics and computer models to try to calculate how events would be different in a world without human-caused climate change. 

A couple of months after Hurricane Harvey, studies that global warming significantly increased the odds for Harvey's record heavy rains.

''It's like a plot line out of 'Back to the Future', where you travel back in time to some alternate reality'' that is plausible but without humans changing the climate, and University of Exeter climate scientists Peter Stott, one of the pioneers of the field.

A National Academy of Sciences report finds these studies generally credible.

One team of scientists tried to do a similar analysis for Florence, but outside experts were wary because it was based on forecasts, not observations, and did not use enough computer simulations.

As the world warms ans science advances, scientists get more specific, even without attribution studies. They cite basic physics, the most recent research about storms and past studies and put them together for something like Florence.

''I think we can say the storm is stronger, wetter and more impactful from a coastal flooding standpoint than it would have been BECAUSE of human-caused............warming,'' Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann wrote in an email.

''And we don't need an attribution study to tell us that in my view. We just need the laws of  Thermodynamics.

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