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A comment on Atlantic Hurricanes Trend – Zoe's Insights. Parent comment
What are the motives of people who claim 4 hurricanes each lasting 3 hours MUST BE more important than 3 hurricanes each lasting 4 hours?
The potential damage may actually result more from duration than frequency.
Perhaps it's worth asking if the initial claim is a dirty rhetorical trick?
When it comes to global accumulated cyclone energy, it is no trend/slightly decreasing.
Alarmists predicted it would go up decades ago. They were wrong.
Now they just cherrypick subfacts beneath that grand fact. Look at this location! Look at this time slice! See? See?
It's pathetic.
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What are the motives of people who claim 4 hurricanes each lasting 3 hours MUST BE more important than 3 hurricanes each lasting 4 hours?
The potential damage may actually result more from duration than frequency.
Perhaps it's worth asking if the initial claim is a dirty rhetorical trick?
When it comes to global accumulated cyclone energy, it is no trend/slightly decreasing.
Alarmists predicted it would go up decades ago. They were wrong.
Now they just cherrypick subfacts beneath that grand fact. Look at this location! Look at this time slice! See? See?
It's pathetic.