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

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

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The 1780 Atlantic hurricane season was extraordinarily destructive and was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history with over 25,000 deaths. Four different hurricanes, three in October and one in June, caused at least 1,000 deaths each; this event has never been repeated and only in the 1893 and 2005 seasons were there two such hurricanes. The season also held the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclone of all time.

Additionally, 1780 was a turning point in Caribbean habitation and trade, marking the end of a long period of economic boom that started in the early 1500s and marked the beginning of an economic decline for the region as news of the devastating hurricanes spread.

Eight different storms battered the West Indies including three killer storms in the month of October alone. Tens of thousands were killed across the Caribbean onshore from storm surge, powerful winds and many thousands more killed offshore on sunken ships.

The hurricanes struck the Caribbean in the midst of the American Revolutionary War as British and French navies were vying for control over the region and the hurricanes did considerable damage to both fleets wrecking numerous ships and drowning many.[207]

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that have likely been in the pocket of oil companies.

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another progressive boogeyman.

NA O&G companies have spent billions in the last decade on sustainable carbon neutral programs. And are likely only hope of navigating/innovating our way to a carbon neutral economy.

convenient (due to your programming) that you bring up the big bad oil companies and not Russia, China, India, etc

Of course it is changing.

Blaming man as the sole reason and spending trillions to not move the needle is as asinine as liberals are.

There are a lot of posters on this site with little girl emotions, that come out in full force when this topic comes up.

Temperatures can be measured. Temperatures are rising, and that is a fact.
Seeing this requires looking at trends, not single day records here and there.

Extreme weather events are much harder to quantify. Very hard to say definitively that they are increasing.

Florida has had 125 hurricanes since 1851, including one in 1926 which destroyed Miami and Fort Lauderdale. But experts say the last few Florida hurricanes are your fault.

It's just the Earth trying to rid itself of parasites called humans... can't say that I blame her

During October 1921 western Florida was devastated by a major hurricane. Was that also a "climate crisis?"

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Can we at least agree the climate is changing?

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As opposed to some period where it remained the same for millennia, or even just centuries?

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"Extreme weather events" (I know this is a loaded term) are happening more frequently and there is no doubt about that

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Since we're in hurricane season and we're watching a 2nd major hurricane hurtling towards the southeastern US, let's test that theory with hurricane landfalls. NOAA data

If there's "no doubt" that "extreme weather events" are "happening more frequently", then taking the first two decades of readings and comparing them to the last two full decades of readings should give a clear expression of that.

The first year we have records for is 1851. From 1851-1859 we had:
16 hurricanes (what we would consider "named" now), no years without hurricanes
Average # of hurricanes per year: 1.7778
Average pressure (mb): 964.75
Average max winds (kt): 88.75

From 1860-1869:
15 hurricanes (what we would consider "named" now), 4 years without hurricanes
Average # of hurricanes per year: 1.5 (2.5 per year if going by only years with hurricanes)
Average pressure (mb): 969.8
Average max winds (kt): 85.3333

From 2000-2009:
19 hurricanes, 4 years without hurricanes
Average # of hurricanes per year: 1.9 (3.1667 per year if going by only years with hurricanes)
Average pressure (mb): 959.7368
Average max winds (kt): 89.7364

From 2010-2019:
13 hurricanes, 3 years without hurricanes
Average # of hurricanes per year: 1.3 (1.857 per year if going by only years with hurricanes)
Average pressure (mb): 957.8462
Average max winds (kt): 85.76923

What we find is that there's only a slight difference. But let's expand that a bit to include the first 24 years and the last 24 years...

1851-1874:
40 hurricanes (what we would consider "named" now), 5 years without hurricanes
Average # of hurricanes per year: 1.6667 (2.1 per year if going by only years with hurricanes)
Average pressure (mb): 968.4
Average max winds (kt): 85.75

2000-2023:
42 hurricanes, 7 years without hurricanes
Average # of hurricanes per year: 1.75 (3.23 per year if going by only years with hurricanes)
Average pressure (mb): 959.5952
Average max winds (kt): 90.8333

Here too we see that the overall differences are only slight. While there were 2 more hurricanes for the more recent period, we also saw more years without hurricanes at all for the same period. Average pressure and max winds were only slightly lower/higher (respectively), but we also have to look at that through the contextual lens of 1840-1880 being the last of the three periods which made up the Little Ice Age (meaning northern hemisphere waters were cooler -reportedly ~5.4 degrees lower than current temps- thus providing less fuel for hurricanes).

Are hurricanes more powerful today? Slightly. Are we getting more hurricanes today? Arguable to slightly (depending on timeframe). To bottom line this, the change over the last 172 years is so small that if someone immortal were around throughout that period, they would not realize it was even happening without such accurate measurements.