jg wrote in news:T3xyr.7611$v14.769
@viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com:

On 2/06/2012 11:37 AM, .G. r. e e n c o n wrote:
It's all perception created by a vastly larger media. Every little
thing is of "dire" importance and (because 4/5ths of the adult
population suffers from innumeracy) people believe things are more
severe than long ago. They aren't. Now, everyone with a phone can
film a tornado and every house blown down in a hurricane has its image
blasted across the globe in seconds. What result did anyone expect?



I'm not sure anyone knows what to expect, but melting ice caps and
rising sea levels would seem to be a good indicator.

have a look at

http://joannenova.com.au/2012/05/man...es-are-due-to-
global-adjustments/

http://goo.gl/x19yO

http://joannenova.com.au/2011/12/aus...xaggerated-by-
8-fold-or-maybe-ten/

http://goo.gl/aemOr

I picked up on the last one, because it has been part of my work for years
to keep an eye on several local tide gauges, for establishing HAT values
etc.

The "adjusters" are too stupid to realise that the raw data is available
from more than one source.