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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1029942)	9/9/2017 4:16:11 PM
From: zzpat	1 Recommendation Recommended By Wharf Rat Respond to of 1578302

The guy who pushed the Internet and global warming was a true visionary. Al Gore was always ions ahead of any republican.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1029942)	9/10/2017 12:07:00 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By Mick Mørmøny Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578302

>> Maybe Irma will do it. Why in the world would Irma "convince" anyone of global warming? Even NOAA has admitted climate change plays no material role in these hurricanes and won't before the end of the 21st Century. Comment from NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab: "It is premature to conclude that human activities–and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming–have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane or global tropical cyclone activity. That said, human activities may have already caused changes that are not yet detectable due to the small magnitude of the changes or observational limitations, or are not yet confidently modeled (e.g., aerosol effects on regional climate). Anthropogenic warming by the end of the 21st century will likely cause tropical cyclones globally to be more intense on average (by 2 to 11% according to model projections for an IPCC A1B scenario). This change would imply an even larger percentage increase in the destructive potential per storm, assuming no reduction in storm size. There are better than even odds that anthropogenic warming over the next century will lead to an increase in the occurrence of very intense tropical cyclone in some basins–an increase that would be substantially larger in percentage terms than the 2-11% increase in the average storm intensity. This increase in intense storm occurrence is projected despite a likely decrease (or little change) in the global numbers of all tropical cyclones. Anthropogenic warming by the end of the 21st century will likely cause tropical cyclones to have substantially higher rainfall rates than present-day ones, with a model-projected increase of about 10-15% for rainfall rates averaged within about 100 km of the storm center." They are talking about 80 years from now. A period during which the US human-caused CO2 output may drop to essentially zero. It just doesn't matter. By then, markets will be driving the process, doing what markets usually do: producing optimal results.