re: Climate Change Question...not regarding man made or natural cycles...

Yes, climate is always changing… There'once an Ice Age on earth so what happened with that?

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Data have shown that this is not necessarily the case. Maybe it's because more people are living in areas affected by extreme weather (like hurricanes) exaggerating its impact. Pretty much no one lived in Florida until the 20th century now it's the third most populous state behind California and Texas.

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I will tell you one thing, eventually someone in this thread will get around to bringing up "billion dollar disasters". NOAA keeps a list, and there is a whole lot of frickery going on with it. They've gone on a media blitz about billion dollar disasters being on the rise and such. They've been questioned as to their data and their methodology. They have refused to answer those questions, and have now ended up in front of a congressional hearing for their troubles.

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You're one of those "do the research" guys huh?

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Be one of those guys. Look up the Quaternary Period relative to climate change and relative to history of terrestrial temperature preceding it.

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Its both.

However, the doomsday prophets of climate change have filled our heads with so many fairy tales that havent come true, they have become their own worst enemy.

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Additionally, I'm far more concerned about the effects of all the plastics and other chemical pollution that is destroying our oceans, than boogey-man CO2.

The crazy thing is that before the colonizers showed up and started destroying the environment there’s no record of hurricanes ever happening here


Bigots will say it’s because native Americans never developed a system of writing but the real reason is climate change

For anyone interested in the frickery of the NOAA billion dollar disaster archive/list this is a good look at the most glaring problems.
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Hurricane Camile devastated Virginia with floods.

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Extreme weather events" (I know this is a loaded term) are happening more frequently

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Are they?

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I think the extreme part is more to do with media hype and people being softer than in the past. Plus increased development leads to more damage for the same intensity of past storms.

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Also consider that we use primarily satellite data when discussing storms out in the mid atlantice. We have record numbers of storms but also have storms that spinup and die without ever impacting land, many of those would not have been categorized 100 years ago and not detected at all 400 or more years ago.

We are drawing some conclusions on inadequate data when we say things like worst or most active ever without adding the caveat of since we have been using modern equipment.