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Offline Wretched Excess

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Global warming's toasty water connection to Gustav
« on: August 31, 2008, 05:31:04 PM »
LOL!  you knew this was coming, right?  and be sure and read the last paragraph I included.  even when refuting
silliness, they assume that the larger silliness is still true.

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Global warming's toasty water connection to Gustav

Global warming has probably made Hurricane Gustav a bit stronger and wetter, some top scientists said Sunday, but the specific connection between climate change and stronger hurricanes remains an issue of debate.

The Atlantic is seeing an increase in storms rated among the strongest. In the past four years, Hurricanes Gustav and Katrina reached Category 4 with sustained winds of at least 131 mph, and six other storms have reached that level or been even stronger, according to research at Georgia Tech.

Six scientists contacted by The Associated Press on Sunday said this shows some effect of global warming, but they differ on the size of the effect.

"We are just seeing a lot more Categories 4 and 5 globally than we have ever seen," said Judith Curry, chairman of Earth and atmospheric sciences at Georgia Tech. "The years 2004, 2005 and 2007 are quite high. We're just seeing more and more."
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But the same scientists also caution it is impossible to blame global warming for any single weather event and that some form of Gustav (and other hurricanes) would have likely still formed and turned deadly without man-made climate change.

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Re: Global warming's toasty water connection to Gustav
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2008, 05:33:10 PM »
Seeing as how AGW is still a hypothesis, based on a lot of propter hoc nonsense, this statement both makes sense and is silly.
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Re: Global warming's toasty water connection to Gustav
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2008, 10:18:58 PM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on August 31, 2008, 05:31:04 PM
But the same scientists also caution it is impossible to blame global warming for any single weather event and that some form of Gustav (and other hurricanes) would have likely still formed and turned deadly without man-made climate change.

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But I thought there was 100% consensus on global warming!
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Re: Global warming's toasty water connection to Gustav
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2008, 10:25:05 PM »
Quote from: jinxmchue on August 31, 2008, 10:18:58 PM
Quote from: Wretched Excess on August 31, 2008, 05:31:04 PM
But the same scientists also caution it is impossible to blame global warming for any single weather event and that some form of Gustav (and other hurricanes) would have likely still formed and turned deadly without man-made climate change.

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But I thought there was 100% consensus on global warming!
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those were merely peer reviewed.

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