This is an unintentionally great comment. When people claim that every weather event is caused by global warming, it's hard to take it those claims seriously.
I'm not saying "global warming causes all the hurricanes", I'm saying "humans messing with the atmosphere has increased the variance and severity of our weather". If you don't agree with that, you're in willful denial.
Anyways, thanks for recognizing that my comment was great. I'll take what I can get.
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/All_U.S._Hurricanes.html
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/gw_hurricanes/fig33.jpg
Can you explain why 1850 looks comparable or worse than the 1990s and worse than 2010s so far? I don't see what this proves.
The inputs for "man's impact" in the 1850s would not come close to modern day. If we took that into account, by your logic, the bar charts should explode out the top! But it doesn't. Not even close.
1850 - 1.2B people 2010s - ~7B people and a lot more pollution
From your linked data, the impact of AGW on hurricanes over the last year = 0
Edit: I think you may agree with me that it doesn't point to more extreme weather events. If so - my comment is directed at the parent.
You should know that's a somewhat dated view. The scientific consensus is now much less certain about the link. See e.g. [1, p.7].
[1] http://www.climatechange2013.org/images/report/WG1AR5_SPM_FI...
That's exactly how you wrote it.
>Like Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Sandy? Or the streets of Miami flooding?
It's a great example of what the problem is. If you aspire to being a great negative example, I guess that's your prerogative.