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Scanning through this, it seems kinda cherry-picked too. To refute "storms are becoming more common" it gives us a graph not of global hurricane/typhoon freque
by ajross 4y ago
Scanning through this, it seems kinda cherry-picked too. To refute "storms are becoming more common" it gives us a graph not of global hurricane/typhoon frequency, but... "landfalling continental US hurricanes". Good grief. That's a population with a frequency of one or two per year, it's all noise![1] I don't happen to have the full data set handy, but I'll bet anything it doesn't say what the article says it does, because if it did he would have used it.
What's the truth? Damned if I know, climate science is hard. But I know better than to trust sources like this.
[1] But even as noise, it seems from the graph in the article like it's getting worse and not better. We haven't had a year with zero or one hurricanes in about a decade, it looks like. And never had one with more than four until 1985, since which it's happened three times.
- AbrahamParangi 4y agoBut that statement "storms are becoming more common" is a strong statement that requires strong positive proof! The burden of proof is on the claim, not on disputing it!
- tuatoru 4y agoStatements about global weather have to use global weather data sets.