Reply #78: I prefer a scientific approach myself as well. [View All]

[Ratty]

I would have phrased it that there is no scientific evidence of a correlation between the current level of global warming and the intensity of hurricanes. There's no way he can categorically state that there is no relationship. That's a Republican shill tactic. The oceans have warmed only about a degree since we began measuring things a couple of hundred years ago. They must have warmed only a tiny tiny fraction of a degree in the last ten years. How could that account for the unusual severity we are seeing just THIS year? Have hurricane intensities been slowing climbing along with ocean temperature? There's simply no way to know whether or not this is simply a fluke. You cannot even get a non-scientific subjective feeling based on just a year's experience. I hate to jump to completely unscientific conclusions and cry Wolf at the top of my lungs and then see the next few years give us LESS severe hurricanes than normal. That gives the repubs ammunition to deny global warming, which is an established scientific fact.