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Originally Posted by OhioBuckeye
Seriously do you think Hurricane’s are caused by Gobal Warming, seriously it’s called govt. money gouging. No way money will fix Mother Nature. This is something that happens every 100 yrs. Don’t believe it, we had another person make billions off of us.
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Seriously, have you seen any post, read any scientific journal, or found anything where any credible account claims a hurricane was caused by Man-made climate change? If so, I would love a reference so I can go write another book on them.
I know of no one that claims singleton events, hurricanes, droughts, flooding, etc, are caused by global warming. That is a news media talking point to raise anger.
What climate change is said to do is to affect the climate. At this point, the change is a very little nudge - so in the case of Ian, Ian would have happened anyway, but because of climate change maybe the storm surge in SW Florida was 18 feet instead of 15 feet or 17 feet or whatever it would have been without the impact of climate change.
In Phoenix, AZ, there are long periods of temperatures in excess of 100f every day. I don't remember the exact number of days, but say all things being normal, they would have had a 90-day period this year, but instead, because of climate change, they have a 92-day period.
People look a that and say, well, what's the big deal, in 1843 they had a 105 days period. See, climate change is fake.
Well, no, that is not how averages work. Climate scientists never claim to predict any singleton event. They claim that, on average, things are changing - a small amount each year but changing. That is why it takes supercomputers to run the models which analyze enough data from all over the world to be able to see very small deviations over time. Picking out exceptions as samples of why they are wrong, well, seems simple and reasonable, but doesn't work.
Why is that small change so important?
Well, think of it as compound interest. When you are 8 and deposit that first tuppence, the interest is silly little, But continue ever week with another tuppence, and compound interest starts to be significant. By the time you are 65, you can retire. (well, today, a tuppence may not be enough to retire, but you get the idea. small changes add up over time, especially when they are compounding).