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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
The record going back to 1885 for major land falling hurricanes has been showing a down trend since at least the 1960s and back as far as the 1930s depending on how you like to cut and stack the data.
Wild fires are mostly a man made construct by mismanagement or over management of the forests combined with weather favorable to fires. To blame climate change for forest fires is a huge stretch since it's not the only thing in play.
I do like how climate change is responsible for both droughts, floods and any unusual weather but climate change is defined by a guy on the weather channel who at least holds a PhD in climate studies says "climate change is over the century time scale" and " not to fall into the weather is climate trap" or something to that effect.
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*'Major' hurricanes meaning specifically what?
*For the number?
*For the wind intensity?
*Storm surge?
*Rainfall?
*Michael was 'historic'
*Yutu was 'historic'
*Florence was 'historic'
*Harvey was 'historic'
*'historic' events are concerns for climatologists.
*Climate change affects everything from phytoplankton blooms to Cyclones.
*Polar warming affects circumpolar jets,which affect the Jet Stream,which affects all distribution of pressure anomalies,temperature,precipitation,drought,flood, snow,hail,etc..
*Stationary highs and lows can 'park' weather over a specific geographic area for weeks if not months.
*Extended drought creates the fuel for wildfire.Whether real estate development or impotence of forest service management complicates the situation isn't germane to climate issues.
*Climate change is anything which lies outside natural variability of the recorded weather dynamics.