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Is Man Made Climate Change Contributing to Extreme Tropical Storms?

Is Man Made Climate Change Contributing to Extreme Tropical Storms?

  • Yes

    Votes: 49 61.3%

  • No

    Votes: 25 31.3%

  • JOHN CENA IS CONTRIBUTING AN A** WHOOPING

    Votes: 6 7.5%
  • Total voters
    80
Winston

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Is man made climate change contributing to the level of intensity of tropical storms?

Yes or no?
 
NASA and NOAA sure think so.
 
Yes. Pretty simple.
 
From NOAA:

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
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Read more here: https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/

So it is too early to know. You can close the poll and thread now. ;)
 
Winston said:
Is man made climate change contributing to the level of intensity of tropical storms?

Yes or no?
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Did AGW just start a couple of weeks ago?
 
Possible but it's, by no means, certain.
 
Great video.

 
countryboy said:
Did AGW just start a couple of weeks ago?
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Apparently humans stopped smoking, cooking, and driving automobiles 12 years ago and just resumed a couple weeks ago.

This is the first hurricane problem since '05.
 
Your Star said:
Great video.

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Seriously that was a great video; high praise from someone like myself, with the attention span of an over caffeinated chipmunk when it comes to global warming discussion!
 
Winston said:
Is man made climate change contributing to the level of intensity of tropical storms?

Yes or no?
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Yes. Without any doubt. We are a factor along with millions if not billions of other things that are factors. How much of a factor are we is the question that nobody knows for sure the answer to. Everyone claiming they know for sure are lying.

Our climate is too complex and there are too many factors that we know of that limit our ability to predict with any accuracy. When you add in the millions of factors we have yet to discover or are wrong about certainty becomes impossible.
 
It certainly seems that there is a correlation with rising ocean surface temperatures and both the frequency and ferocity of storms, both in the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans and the Caribbean Sea. While correlation is not necessarily causation, there seems ample evidenceto now to connect global warming to the energisation and amplification of cyclones and anti-cyclones. The frequency and ferocity curves seem to be shifting to the right a little bit more each year or five year period. That or Gaia is becoming increasingly flatulent these days!

Cheers.
Evilroddy.
 
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Extreme as in wind intensity (Irma)? Too early to tell.

Extreme as in rainfall (Harvey)? Likely.

 
Parrish said:
I doubt you understood what you read.
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You can doubt whatever you like. The fact is, the last few storm seasons have produced very few powerful storms. If strong storms are caused by AGW, why is this?
 
Winston said:
Is man made climate change contributing to the level of intensity of tropical storms?

Yes or no?
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"Man made" climate change is like a drop in the bucket of the Pacific Ocean. But, of course "nature made" climate change effects hurricanes and the planet is going through a warming period. Just read today that, if true, some Evangelicals are blaming these large hurricanes on homosexuality. If true that is, of course, ridiculous, just as it is ridiculous that climate change is "man made". Libs around the world fought the environment with the Paris accord and what was the result? "Climate change" got worse. That's because man has very little to do with it and can do very little to stop it.
 
Moderate Right said:
"Man made" climate change is like a drop in the bucket of the Pacific Ocean. But, of course "nature made" climate change effects hurricanes and the planet is going through a warming period. Just read today that, if true, some Evangelicals are blaming these large hurricanes on homosexuality. If true that is, of course, ridiculous, just as it is ridiculous that climate change is "man made". Libs around the world fought the environment with the Paris accord and what was the result? "Climate change" got worse. That's because man has very little to do with it and can do very little to stop it.
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What a dumb comparison. As to the topic of the thread, according to NOAA, it is too early to know and there is insufficient evidence so far to know if AGW is resulting in stronger Atlantic hurricanes.

As to the comparison you made. There is no evidence at all that homosexuality has anything to do with climate. However, there is a mountain of evidence, that every major scientific society with expertise in climate on earth accepts, that human activity is resulting in climatic warming. This is basic thermal physics. It is not even remotely controversial in mainstream science.

https://skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=257
 
Moderate Right said:
"Man made" climate change is like a drop in the bucket of the Pacific Ocean. But, of course "nature made" climate change effects hurricanes and the planet is going through a warming period. Just read today that, if true, some Evangelicals are blaming these large hurricanes on homosexuality. If true that is, of course, ridiculous, just as it is ridiculous that climate change is "man made". Libs around the world fought the environment with the Paris accord and what was the result? "Climate change" got worse. That's because man has very little to do with it and can do very little to stop it.
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SouthernDemocrat said:
What a dumb comparison. As to the topic of the thread, according to NOAA, it is too early to know and there is insufficient evidence so far to know if AGW is resulting in stronger Atlantic hurricanes.
As to the comparison you made. There is no evidence at all that homosexuality has anything to do with climate. However, there is a mountain of evidence, that every major scientific society with expertise in climate on earth accepts, that human activity is resulting in climatic warming. This is basic thermal physics. It is not even remotely controversial in mainstream science.
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You forget, SD, that you're arguing with someone who thinks his feelings outweigh the mountains of scientific evidence and near unanimous conclusions of the world's scientific community. You can't reason with someone who's ego is inflated to that level on a topic he knows virtually nothing about and has no formal education in. A ridiculous scenario about homosexuality effecting weather patterns he pulled out of his ass is the exact same thing as science. :lamo
 
Winston said:
Is man made climate change contributing to the level of intensity of tropical storms?

Yes or no?
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Newp !

First, we havent had a major storm in 12 years and if I remember the propaganda.....I mean the predictions correctly, AGW was supposed to increase the number of storms and increase their intensity

Second, we've had strong Hurricanes before.
To name a few, Andrew was a Cat 5, Rita was a Cat 5, Alicia was a Cat 4 and the 1900 Galveston Hurricane was a Cat 4 that killed everyone on the island.

Third, Houston wasnt hit by a intense Hurricane. It was hit by a tropical storm that hugged the coast for 5 days putting Houston on its dirty side.

Trying to exploit a natural disaster for Polic gain is right up the Democratic parties alley, but Im sure youre better than that
 
Winston said:
Is man made climate change contributing to the level of intensity of tropical storms?

Yes or no?
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Pretty simple straight forward common sense question.

Is climate change responsible for the extreme tropical storms? yes
is mad man climate change "a" contributing factor to all of climate change? yes
so is man made climate change "a" contributing factor for the extreme tropical storms? yes

theres no other logical answer to come to
 
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