elprincipe said:
To all who have said something like this for anywhere (ie it is hot, raining more, flooding, etc), you realize that this is not evidence of global warming, don't you? Even temperatures increasing are not evidence of global warming, especially human-caused global warming. Here is a chart (http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wcstates.htm) showing record low temperatures. Some are from the 1800s and some from the 1990s. In other words, every short-term variation does not equal long-term trend, something which is true for temperature, precipitation, extreme weather events like hurricanes, etc. Ask hurricane experts and they will tell you that hurricane variances are caused by ocean current patterns, for example. Bottom line, do not try to tell us that because last year it was hot means global warming is absolutely, positively true because that is rather stupid. |
Storms also tend to occur in natural 30 year cycles. The last one ended in the 70s, and a new one is kicking in. The main difference is that in the interim we've had far more people moving to southern, coastal locations (in the US anyway), and, since hurricanes haven't been like this since they moved there, the assume that the spike is something new.
