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| KLAMarine said: "it is pretty unclear the extent to which warming increased their intensity" But global warming does in fact amplify their intensity, yes? "if you focus on local events to support global trends" Luckily, I don't believe I did. I believe I pointed to a global trend to explain local events. |
Sure, but if only increased it by .000001% per year, why would we care? Magnitude matters just as much as whether or not its happening, especially when we are making cost-benefit-risk assessments.
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Luckily, I don't believe I did. I believe I pointed to a global trend to explain local events. |
This is still a global claim though, because storms are not going to be more extreme everywhere in the world. So using global trends to explain any particular intense storm without empirical evidence of causation does harm, because when one sees a region with calmer weather they are going to say, "What are you talking about? The weather is calmer here." Since you can't verify causation, you can't make the claim you made.
