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Uh no, not a good point, literally a pointless point. This dude is either fucking retarded, or intentionally misrepresenting the point in an attempt to mislead the fucking retarded. The question is not whether climate change is causing hurricanes, it is whether it is causing them to be more intense than they would be otherwise.
It is premature to conclude that human activities–and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming–have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane or global tropical cyclone activity. That said, human activities may have already caused changes that are not yet detectable due to the small magnitude of the changes or observational limitations, or are not yet confidently modeled.
Anthropogenic warming by the end of the 21st century will likely cause tropical cyclones globally to be more intense on average (by 2 to 11% according to model projections for an IPCC A1B scenario). This change would imply an even larger percentage increase in the destructive potential per storm, assuming no reduction in storm size.
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Irma was a full blown 5 (with many hyper-boiling and wanting to add a new class 6) but she dropped to a category 3 by the time it skirted Tampa and its eye hadn't hit land yet. Its not the rating that has changed but our way of accurately measuring and visualizing that's changed.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshws.php
Add all this additional data and increased resolution to a for-profit-for-eyeballs so called "news" service whose sole job is to scare you and its just gotten out of control. You hear them scream about how deadly the storm is yet the very same network sticks a 100lb news woman next to a van out there to be in the thick of it and 'on the scene'. All the networks showed a horrible deep magenta and red hurricane on the weather maps when the actual weather service updater for my phone only showed the tiniest of red here and there. most of Irma was green and yellow.
hype, hype, and more hyperboled hype. and all the future models are skewed and are bullshit.
And of course im not saying hurricanes are not dangerous or deadly. Dora raised the sea level 10 feet in jacksonville in 1964
but was only a cat 3. No one in florida will forget hurricane Andrew either. That was a bad one, it hit florida in 86 and killed over 50 people and literally leveled some small florida towns entirely. It was a freaking huge hurricane that was our worst and it hit the state right in the middle of those charts lowest dissipation point.
Once the environmental community included carbon dioxide to the list it ended. game over. they have jumped the shark and the numbers will never go down no matter what. global cooling didn't do it, CFCs didn't do it, global warming didn't do it....CO2 did it. population is only going to go up and undeveloped land is only going to go down.
neither of these actual real problems were addressed by kyoto or paris. all those agreements do is strangle first world nations so global industrialist (corporations, not the jooooz) cant exploit 3rd and 4th world nations. The Paris agreement is far worse. It requires first world nations to actually pay to develop 3rd and 4th world nations infrastructure... for industry of course.
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[–] StuffThatSandwich 8 points -4 points 4 points (+4|-8) ago (edited ago)
Uh no, not a good point, literally a pointless point. This dude is either fucking retarded, or intentionally misrepresenting the point in an attempt to mislead the fucking retarded. The question is not whether climate change is causing hurricanes, it is whether it is causing them to be more intense than they would be otherwise.
https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/pix/user_images/tk/VSS08-Figure-WMO_new_ab.png
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Which is a fair argument. But a separate issue from the fact that the original post is useless garbage
[–] Cadster 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Irma was a full blown 5 (with many hyper-boiling and wanting to add a new class 6) but she dropped to a category 3 by the time it skirted Tampa and its eye hadn't hit land yet. Its not the rating that has changed but our way of accurately measuring and visualizing that's changed. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshws.php
Add all this additional data and increased resolution to a for-profit-for-eyeballs so called "news" service whose sole job is to scare you and its just gotten out of control. You hear them scream about how deadly the storm is yet the very same network sticks a 100lb news woman next to a van out there to be in the thick of it and 'on the scene'. All the networks showed a horrible deep magenta and red hurricane on the weather maps when the actual weather service updater for my phone only showed the tiniest of red here and there. most of Irma was green and yellow.
hype, hype, and more hyperboled hype. and all the future models are skewed and are bullshit.
And of course im not saying hurricanes are not dangerous or deadly. Dora raised the sea level 10 feet in jacksonville in 1964 but was only a cat 3. No one in florida will forget hurricane Andrew either. That was a bad one, it hit florida in 86 and killed over 50 people and literally leveled some small florida towns entirely. It was a freaking huge hurricane that was our worst and it hit the state right in the middle of those charts lowest dissipation point.
Once the environmental community included carbon dioxide to the list it ended. game over. they have jumped the shark and the numbers will never go down no matter what. global cooling didn't do it, CFCs didn't do it, global warming didn't do it....CO2 did it. population is only going to go up and undeveloped land is only going to go down.
population is the problem- https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL
deforestation is the problem- https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/deforestation
neither of these actual real problems were addressed by kyoto or paris. all those agreements do is strangle first world nations so global industrialist (corporations, not the jooooz) cant exploit 3rd and 4th world nations. The Paris agreement is far worse. It requires first world nations to actually pay to develop 3rd and 4th world nations infrastructure... for industry of course.