"James Annan" wrote in message
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Coby Beck wrote:
"Well Done" wrote in message
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"Coby Beck" wrote:
How long can people go on shrugging it all off?

Some of the folks who are "shrugging it off" are Hurricane scientists,
who know what is going on. They INSIST this is NOT due to any global
warming. The only known effect global warming has on hurricanes is
that they are reduced when El Nino is active. Period.

I bet you can not find a single quote of any "Hurricane scientist"
insisting
that there is no GW effect involved in the current exceptional hurrican
season.

Well Roger Pielke Jnr did applaud James Glassman of TCS when the latter
said:

"Katrina has nothing to do with global warming. Nothing."

which seems to me to be near enough the same thing - but perhaps you
exclude RPJnr from your list of "hurricane scientists"? I wouldn't be
surprised if Bill "I predict global cooling" Gray has said similar
things.

Such statements strike me as just as irresponsible as "global warming
destroyed NOLA". I would expect a properly qualified something like "there
is no evidence that GW has cause more or more severe hurricanes" as the
strongest justified sceptical statement.

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Coby Beck
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