Mike Peregrine
EF5
Not interested in restarting debate over the global warming issue, as the opinions seem to be as sharply divided in the scientific community as they are in our humble little chase forum here ... but I just read this article in USA Today concerning a recent study by climatologist Kerry Emanuel of MIT as it applies to the effects that global warming may play on hurricane development and intensity. Associated Press did a nice job of covering the basics of the dispute as well, so rather than bring up the same debate in here, my question has to do with the possibilities of even more localized effects on the mesoscale or even storm scale as it applies to supercell activity across the U.S. or elsewhere. Wondering if any climatologists might currently be involved in any projects along this line, as it seems reasonable to conclude that as synoptic scale features are modified as a result of the *possible* effects of global warming, this would in turn transfer and play a part in local activity as well. Has anyone read anything recently on the subject? Pretty interesting stuff to me, as it would certainly seem to possibly explain spring pattern irregularities seen over the last few years and point to the direction that chasing might be headed in the future ...