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To: wherry who wrote (349)	1/8/2017 8:41:36 PM
From: Sam	of 566

That headline -- correlating global warming with damage from weather related disaster -- is a non sequitur. What has been posted says nothing about why reduced weather related claims have occurred, it just pretends it is because there have been fewer severe storms and therefore no global warming. But the fact is, there have been many record breaking storms in the Pacific and in Asia where damages have cost less, either due to the storms/flooding making landfall at sparsely settled areas or the areas didn't have extensive insurance or didn't have extensive development. It doesn't mean that plenty of storms didn't occur. It is true that the North Atlantic in particular has been very quiet over roughly the past decade. But the ice shelves in Greenland, the Arctic and Antarctic have continued to melt and temperatures around the world have continued to set records (even though some of the records are for cold weather due to the Polar Vortex, which is itself caused by warmer weather than usual in the Arctic). But I realize that there is nothing that will convince someone who is determined to ignore the science that underlies global warming theories.

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