Reply #20: It would be as big, if not bigger, a mistake to dismiss our impact on climate [View All]

[The Doctor.]

as 'unrelated' to storm activity.

The people that are so quick to deny that severe weather has 'nothing to do with climate change' are sorely ignorant of one very important principle;

HEAT=Energy

There are plenty of simple facts that make any such dismissals seem terribly ignorant. They are as follows;

1) Humans add extra CO2 to the environment cumulatively every year, and have done so at ever increasing rates, above and beyond the natural CO2 cycle.

2) CO2 causes low-spectrum light to be converted to heat. More atmospheric CO2 means more heat. More heat means more energy.

3) The predictions of more severe weather, less sea ice, and acidification of the oceans have demonstrably been coming to pass... and in some cases, decades sooner than predicted.

Those simple facts make climate change not only a suspect in severe weather events, but a likely factor.