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Does that mean the Industrial Revolution has been causing extreme weather right from the very start?

• olivermarks 4y ago
  that's hilarious!
• aatharuv 4y ago
  No, it means that there were extreme weather events going on even without the industrial revolution in full swing. Extreme weather is just going to be far more common https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/weather-climate#:~:text=Rising%20global%20average%20temperature%20is,with%20human%2Dinduced%20climate%20change https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/weather-climate#:~:te.... The 500 year flood is going to be a 100 year flood and a 100 year flood is going to be a once a decade flood.
  • 2devnull 4y ago
    We have to be very careful with our language. Extreme weather “is likely to be, based on current models,” more common. We do not know, and overselling our certainty becomes ammunition for the “we can’t know anything” crowd.
• throwaway313313 4y ago
  From the Wikipedia page: "The storm was not an unprecedented occurrence. Geologic evidence has been found that massive floods, of equal or greater magnitude to the 1861–1862 event, have occurred in California roughly every 100 to 200 years."