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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (32179)	9/1/2017 9:03:20 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356438

Harvey is a symptom of the warming, not the evidence. No real evidence of that either. In 1780, before any very significant human contribution to warming, and in the little ice age period, one Atlantic hurricane killed an estimated 20 to 22 thousand people, and 3 more killed over a thousand each. In terms of intensity (probably a more relevant issue than deaths), more "top ten" (most intense hurricanes to hit the US in its history) happened from 1919 to 1935, and also more from 1961 to 1969 than from 1970 to now. The most intense (at landfall) hurricane to hit the US was the Labor Day Hurricane in 1935. 7 of the top ten where before I was born. Half of the top ten happened before my parents were born. Of course those points are not effective anti-global warming arguments (which is not my point anyway). They are issues of weather, not climate. But so is Harvey.