I'm sure we can all agree the stupidest politicians are those who claim every winter that since it's unusually cold, there is no global warming.
Only slightly less stupid are the politicians that point to every threatening hurricane as evidence of climate change.
Only slightly less stupid are the politicians that point to every threatening hurricane as evidence of climate change.
That picture shows nothing unusual, expect that it puts a circle around every storm that is not a hurricane making them look as dangerous as a hurricane. It shows the typical assembly line of storms that always form in the tropics this time of year.
Science denialism works in BOTH directions. Overstating/exaggerating the science is equally as invalid as understating it.
So what does the science say about hurricanes? The consensus is that by the year 2100, they will probably get slightly worse, but that there's no visible evidence that they have already gotten worse.
gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming…
gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming…
It's not just NOAA, it's the US National Academy of Sciences, the UN IPCC, and other groups collecting multiple studies into a "consensus" who say so.
Thus, anybody citing hurricanes as evidence of climate change is denying science.
Thus, anybody citing hurricanes as evidence of climate change is denying science.
