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[…] Hurricane Harvey and Irma became the first two Category 4 hurricanes to strike the U.S. coast on the Atlantic side in the same year, based on 166 years of record-keeping, prompting warnings from Mr. Gore, Pope Francis, Leonardo DiCaprio and others about human-caused climate change.
“This is an unusual time. Within the last two weeks, we have had two more record-breaking, climate-connected storms,” said Mr. Gore in a Monday speech at the World Economic Forum.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo weighed in at a Wednesday press conference, saying “we’ve had multiple Category 4 hurricanes come on land, more than ever before.”
A former NASA senior scientist for climate studies, Mr. Spencer said that having two hurricanes make landfall on the lower 48 within one year isn’t proof of climate change.
“There have been many years with multiple Cat 4 hurricanes in the Atlantic, but there is nothing about global warming theory that says more of those will make landfall,” Mr. Spencer said in an email. “While the official estimate is that this was the first time two Cat 4 storms hit the U.S., since Florida was virtually unpopulated before 1900, we probably don’t really know.”
Before this season, no Category 3 or larger hurricane had hit the U.S. coast since 2005 in what has been dubbed the “hurricane drought.”
Looks like a picture of a proctological exam of some Hollweird celebrity.
If memory serves correctly, the climate kooks were pounding their chests saying climate change caused the lack of hurricanes for the past 11 years.
What exactly is a “normal” number of hurricanes, how much damage are they allowed to do, and what category should they be on the Saffir-Simpson Scale when they make landfall? Really, I want to know what’s acceptable. After all, we are talking settled science, it shouldn’t be that difficult.
These are the same people who said that Buffalo went without snow for a couple of years because of the “lake effect,” then said the reason Buffalo got heavy snowfall one year was because of the “lake effect.”
Isn’t it interesting how people who believe in science and say that the earth is millions of years old will claim that a couple of hundred of those millions of years are representative of what “normal” is.
Interestingly enough, the “categories” nomenclature (SSHWS) used to classify a hurricane has only been in place since the 70s.
When some idiot claims something like this, it’s automatically a stupid, ignorant statement and the person spouting it should be held up to ridicule.
Why do zealots think everybody is as obtuse as they?
Progs have no self-awareness, if they did, they wouldn’t be Progs.
Just because your mommy said you were special, there is no reason to believe her.
Win some debates with your mind, not your loud mouth, then we can talk.
The usual choir from “Imbecilic School of the Sadly Misinformed”.
Hey, Will, looks more like their brain scans.
@Will, by Hollywood standards, that hole in the middle is not nearly big enough, if you get my drift.
Seminole Indian lore tells of five great storms that hit the mainland in 1392 and killed 4 or more cats, but no written records exist. Plus it wasn’t the U.S. mainland then, or even Florida, so it doesn’t count.
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“NATURE” decided hurricane strength and weaknesses. Just like it decides winners and loser in evolution.
Don’t start blaming humans now!
Job 1:18-19
While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
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A new weather toy I found that covers the entire planet.