Fairly basic answer, warmer air can hold more water vapor, which mostly comes from the ocean, and each gram in changing phase, liquid to vapor, takes up a lot of calories of heat, removing it from the ocean.
Put on a wet t shirt, on a hot day, it will give you chills as it sucks the heat from your body.
Climate Science seems to have skipped basic Physics.
Climate Science pushes that things are getting worse, but by the same records, the hurricane that ate Galveston, another that raked Louisiana in 1912, were worse than anything seen since.
Recent geologic records, since the last ice age, show storms that changed the landscape.
I did some gold mining, along the streams are layers from prior floods, that laid down thick bands of outwash. Now they are mostly high banks, above the stream because the climate has been milder. Creeks eroded through the old deposits, but they can be dated by what is found in them.
Old times left deposits, recent streams cut through them. we used to have massive rainfalls, floods, that washed millions of tons down to fill the streams. A lot of these thousand year floods are dated.
Before the drought of 700 to 1500, there were some very wet periods.
Out west there are three layers of wind blown sand. yellow on top, then red, and gray beneath. Below the gray sand is where Clovis points are found, dated 12,000 to 8,000 years ago. The mix of sand in the streams can be dated by color. There were big time floods.
It was colder, sea level was lower, CO2 was lower, we still got dumped on at least ten times what we have ever seen.
12 Oct 2014, 4:23 pm
