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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Climate change, get used to it
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yes, because hurricanes are rare along the east coast of NA....granted that this one was a large one, but you know what? there have been really really big ones before, and lots of them happened long before the combustion engine. This season was one of the weakest for hurricanes ever recorded (as far as landfall)...which simply doesnt jive with the man made theory. Its all very cyclical.
I have little doubt that there are contributions to the severity in certain situations that are man made, but its to be seen just how much those contributions are...the earth is a pretty resilient planet that has seen multiple climate changes over its history and we could merely be seeing part of another one regardless of humans doing whatever we do.
All that being said...this was one brute of a storm that has rarely been seen in the last couple hundred years in the northern hemisphere, and the late formation makes it even more unique. Add to that where it landed (most populated area in the USA) and the timing with the tidal cycles, and we see what will probably be the single largest natural disater ever recorded in NA.
Mother nature is a bitch.