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Originally Posted by gusmahler
After the 2005 hurricane season (the worst hurricane season ever), people were theorizing that climate change was going to make seasons like that normal. Instead, not a single cat 3+ storm hit the US from then until Harvey. If you're going to use Harvey and Irma as evidence of climate change, what do you do with 12 years of no hurricanes?
Hurricanes are weather, not climate. Whether or not there is climate change, hurricanes neither prove nor disprove it.
That's not the climate change argument. You always hear this from CC deniers. ALWAYS. You shift the goal posts to argue a strawman because you don't want to face facts.
CC is having an effect on hurricanes because the warmer water has a higher heat content; thus we have stronger storms WHEN they occur. Today is the first day there were 2 storms of at least 150 mph winds recorded in the Atlantic Ocean. Irma was 185 mph for something like 3 days straight. It's unheard of.
Warm ocean water is just one ingredient to making a hurricane. You need like 10 things to go right for a hurricane to form. But when a hurricane does form, there is more energy available from the ocean.
It does not mean there will be more hurricanes.