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I wonder how much these sorts of accounts are attributable to the beat of the Climate Doom drum combined with human recollection which is notoriously unreliable
by canoebuilder 9y ago
I wonder how much these sorts of accounts are attributable to the beat of the Climate Doom drum combined with human recollection which is notoriously unreliable, malleable, and open to suggestion.
The US has just exited a period of a record setting "hurricane drought," so maybe the hurricane remnant weather seems unusual because no such storms have made landfall in the US for the past decade plus.
That this year had a cluster of large storms isn't really indicative of anything in and of itself. Most things appear to happen in clusters. Things aren't perfectly evenly distributed.
https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/major-hurricane-us-landfall-drought-study#/ https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/major-hurricane-us...!
- zipwitch 9y agoOne of the challenges when it comes to assessing the full impact of anthropogenic climate change is that while it does drive extreme weather, it's far from the only input into such events. Combined with the limited number of such events, it makes it easy to dismiss them as ancedotes instead of data. Scientific American has a good overview of this: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/yes-some-extreme-weather-can-be-blamed-on-climate-change/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/yes-some-extreme-... You can also do a google search for graphs on the frequency of extreme climate events.