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Re:The Uninhabitable Earth (2017) by nradov on Monday December 12, 2022 @11:48AM (#33956892)
Extreme weather events are not actually worsening if you look at longer time scales. The damage from extreme weather events is worsening because we've built more in vulnerable areas. Hurricanes, for example, have gone through natural cycles lasting centuries or millennia before any sort of anthropogenic global climate change. We had been living in a period of relative calm and now appear to be reverting to the mean.

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/uncovering-prehist...

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Re:The Uninhabitable Earth (2017) by aussiesnack on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:23PM (#33959724)
Nonsense. See Ch11 of the last IPCC report. The evidence that increases in global adverse weather events are (as was predicted decades ago) and will continue to be driven by increases in global temperature is entirely clear and hardly disputed. If you really think the article you cited even attempts to refute (let alone successfully) that body of evidence, then you haven't read (or understood) either.
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