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Calls to punish skeptics rise with links to climate change, hurricanes
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/11/climate-change-activists-want-punishment-for-skept/

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Calls to punish global warming skepticism as a criminal offense have surged in the aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, but it hasn’t discouraged climate scientists like Judith Curry.

A retired Georgia Tech professor, she argued on her Climate Etc. website that Irma, which hit Florida as a Category 4 hurricane on Saturday, was fueled in large part by “very weak” wind shear and that the hurricane intensified despite Atlantic Ocean temperatures that weren’t unusually warm.

That is the kind of talk that could get policymakers who heed her research hauled before the justice system, if some of those in the climate change movement have their way.

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Re: Calls to punish skeptics rise with links to climate change, hurricanes
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2017, 11:00:46 AM »
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“It is premature to conclude that human activities–and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming – have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane or global tropical cyclone activity,” reads the research summary put together by NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

“That said, human activities may have already caused changes that are not yet detectable due to the small magnitude of the changes or observational limitations, or are not yet confidently modeled,” reads NOAA’s research summary.
http://www.cfact.org/2017/04/06/noaa-refutes-link-between-global-warming-and-hurricanes/

No detectable effect on hurricanes.