I have never said or even implied that climate change is not occurring.
That's because I believe it is occurring. This was not an attempt to
dispute that the earth is warming, it clearly is. It is rather to
dispute claims which are made in the popular press about increasing
frequency and severity of storms (due to climate change) that have no
basis in scientific evidence. In fact, the actual data show the opposite.
The only thing that could be considered a straw-man in my message is the
treatment of Sandy (a single storm). All of the other data I supplied
covered either all tropical cyclones around the world or all hurricanes
in the US.
If I've given you world-wide data since 1978 or all US hurricanes since
1900 how is that a straw-man?
Chuck Norcutt
On 2/20/2013 3:57 PM, Mike Lazzari wrote:
>> I don't think it's even remotely possible to deny that climate change
>> is occurring. It's been going on since the last ice-age, in fact. Are
>> we humans contributing to the speed of change right now? Oh, I'm sure
>> we are. .....
> What Ken said. We really can't say what if any local weather is due to
> climate change nor the component attributable to the overall warming of
> the climate. However it is undeniable that it is taking place and that
> humans are major contributors. Said article though is making a straw-man
> argument and then extrapolating. Should the media hype the global
> warming theme with every storm? Absolutely not.
>
> Mike
>
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