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If you put more energy into the system one's expectation would be that the expressions of that energy will grow stronger. You don't have to be able to predict where all the bubbles in a pot of boiling water will appear to know that turning up the heat will produce more of them.

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>If you put more energy into the system

First law of thermodynamics calling in.

The Earth is not an isolated system.

Sun-Earth is the isolated system. Or at least to very high degree - is there actually a galactic weather besides the occasional supernovas?

Earth is not an isolated system at all. Much of the solar energy that falls on it is reflected back out into space. It's that fraction of reflected energy dropping (because more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere holds it in) that is causing climate change.

As OP’s numbers show, when it comes to typhoons/cyclones the “expressions of that energy” didn’t get stronger in the last ~50 years, even though measured average temperatures have grown in that time interval.

Cherry picking

So you're saying OP's numbers are incorrect? In which case where is a source for the correct numbers?

> So you're saying OP's numbers are incorrect?

That is not what cherry picking is.

Showing only half of the truth (which I guess that's what cherrypicking means, no?) means you're not telling the truth, meaning you're not correct, meaning you're telling OP's numbers were not correct. Come on, gaslighting is not for HN. The quality in here has indeed come down in the last few years, but I had hoped that not by that much.

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