Anybody who believed global warming was man made are having questions now?

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tombi123 said:

Increasing hurricane intensity due to increasing land surface temperature (relative to ocean surface temperature) isn't a what if. It is a fact.

There is zero evidence to support this claim.  In fact, if you look at the evidence posted earlier in this thread, it shows the exact opposite: with increasing temperatures there has been no change at all in hurricane intensity.  In fact, worldwide, cyclone strength is at its lowest level in 30 years, according to recent studies.

One would think that global warming, which postulates that the poles will warm the fastest and thus decrease the temperature variation between them and the tropics, would decrease the occurence and intensity of hurricanes, not increase them.  Sadly, that isn't alarming enough to make the papers or TV. 

It's a similar phenomenon to sea ice extent.  Most everyone knows that 2007 had the lowest amount of sea ice in the Arctic that has been measured (only since 1979 however), although it has recovered to 2002 levels more or less in 2009.  Nobody knows that while the Arctic had record low recorded sea ice levels, the Antarctic had record high levels in 2007.  Why do facts like that not show up in The New York Times or on network TV news, but you can find a zillion articles about the 2007 Arctic sea ice?  Consider the answer advice on how skeptical you should be of doomsaying claims, such as Al Gore laughably saying the Arctic would be "ice free" by 2013.