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fatslob-:O said:
KLAMarine said:

But global warming does in fact amplify their intensity, yes?

Yes but he argued we don't know the extent of it and that still remains true ... 

Are the two statements incompatible?

fatslob-:O said:
KLAMarine said:

Luckily, I don't believe I did. I believe I pointed to a global trend to explain local events.

You very much did so ... 

Our reliable records we have pale in comparison to the context of Earth's geological timescale. A century's worth of data or even under that can't possibly hope to explain or predict long term trends for over as much as billions or as little as millions of years ... 

Of course not but if all we have is a century's worth of data, what's wrong with using that to predict the trend in the coming century?