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Originally Posted by mikephoen
This is factually incorrect. I'm not sure what else to say, since you're arguing from a position not backed up by any facts.
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I linked a page from the NOAA Hurricane Research Division:.Those aren't facts?
It's quite explicitly explained why we are recording more hurricanes.
You have some here who took courses stating that hurricanes are actually decreasing but increasing in severity. Yet here you are claiming the total opposite, that hurricanes are increasing. So now we have conflicting info. Which is it? Let me answer that.
https://www.wunderground.com/education/webster.asp
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A new policy statement regarding the unproven link between stronger hurricanes and climate change was adopted by the World Meteorological Organization in December 2006, in response to the recommendations of a meeting of 125 hurricane researchers that attended a meeting in Costa Rica. The summary statement is posted at the World Meteorological Organization web site, and the ten main points are presented below. There is also a detailed statement with references to the scientific literature available at the WMO web site.
1. Though there is evidence both for and against the existence of a detectable anthropogenic signal in the tropical cyclone climate record to date, no firm conclusion can be made on this point.
2. No individual tropical cyclone can be directly attributed to climate change.
3. The recent increase in societal impact from tropical cyclones has largely been caused by rising concentrations of population and infrastructure in coastal regions.
6. It is likely that some increase in tropical cyclone peak wind-speed and rainfall will occur if the climate continues to warm. Model studies and theory project a 3-5% increase in wind-speed per degree Celsius increase of tropical sea surface temperatures.
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The actual statement can be found here.
https://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/arep/..._statement.pdf
Actual info from hurricane researchers, and statement (at a time period when hurricanes did seem to increase significantly). The main conclusion being that while should water temperature continue to rise it will undoubtedly create a higher frequency and severity of storms, there is no agreement that this is actually happening right now, and no conclusive evidence one way or another.
But yeah let link this particular storm to climate change. Let's claim that hurricanes are happening a lot more. This is why climate change gets such a bad rap, because every non-informed preacher is using it for everything. Hey it rained a lot yesterday, climate change! It was cold Monday, climate change!
I'm not a climate change denier, far from it. I call out those who continuously use it as a political agenda and attribute everything they can to it. Big difference. The reality is many of those preaching climate change on forums don't understand it themselves and just preach it vapidly. Everything and anything could be attributed to climate change if you use it with a lack of understanding. People did it with God after all.