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Re:As oil and gas exports surge, West Texas becomes the worl... by masonic on Monday December 31, 2018 @05:43PM (#18797523)
What does forecasting have to do with storm severity? My comment was addressing the conflation of storm severity with climate change. Severity of named tropical storms does not correlate well with temperature data.
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Re:As oil and gas exports surge, West Texas becomes the worl... by jhayward on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @01:20AM (#18804539)
You are inferring severity from death count, as I read it.

The existence of category 4/5 hurricanes in 1900 can't really be used to deny global warming if that's what you're after.

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