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To: Land Shark who wrote (2238)	9/20/2011 3:17:05 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Respond to of 85487

Yes, it is what the science says. Message 27644096 weather Message 27645223 Message 27637971 Message 27644100 ... But there’s really no evidence that we’re in the midst of an EXTREME weather era - whether man has influenced climate or not, said University of Colorado professor Roger Pielke, with the Center for Science and Technology Research. “If you look over the long term, and buy long term I mean 100 years or more, there’s actually no up or down in United States hurricane landfalls,” he said. “Within that period, there are time periods where there are more or less.” “Over the long term, there is no evidence that disasters are getting worse because of climate change,” Pielke said. But we’re seeing more EXTREME weather because of phone videos, the internet, cable news, weather chasers and high tech radar. This year has been busy storm wise, but for the past 30 some years, the number of cyclones and strong tornadoes has been trending downward. Earthquake frequency has been basically flat since we’ve been counting them. “This year stands out as a sharp departure from that long-term trend,” Pielke said. Yes, man has transformed the landscape dramatically, the way the earth drains and where we build. “So there has been a lot more flood damage in recent decades, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that there have been more floods,” said Pielke, author of “The Climate Fix, What Scientists and Politicians Won’t Tell You about Global Warming.” In science, this is called observational bias. ..... Message 27619468 Message 27599592