Climate

I am personally convinced that the addition of man-made carbon dioxide to the atmosphere contributes to the slow warming of the planet. I have suggested that the use of methane hydrate is the solution to this problem but those who push for wind and solar refuse to look at other solutions. They are slowly twisting in the wind as they try to justify their position that the end of the world as we know it is at hand and will come to fruition by 2050, at least that is the latest dooms day date. For years they talked about global warming but when the temperatures leveled out they renamed the problem climate change. This allows them to selective choose various weather events to prove their point. A quick google check proves that other than wild fires other climate events have either not changed or gotten better. Case in point, major hurricanes! In a stroke of luck, no major hurricanes rated Category 3 or higher have struck U.S. soil during the past nine years, a new study finds.This is the country's longest "hurricane drought" in recorded history, or since 1851, the researchers said. The previous record lull lasted eight years, from 1861 to 1868, they said. Here is a quote from the congressional committee designed to study climate. • Globally, weather-related losses ($) have not increased since 1990 as a proportion of GDP (they have actually decreased by about 25%) and insured catastrophe losses have not increased as a proportion of GDP since 1960. • Hurricane landfalls have not increased in the US in frequency, intensity or normalized damage since at least 1900. The same holds for tropical cyclones globally since at least 1970 (when data allows for a global perspective). • Floods have not increased in the US in frequency or intensity since at least 1950. Flood losses as a percentage of US GDP have dropped by about 75% since 1940. • Tornadoes in the US have not increased in frequency, intensity or normalized damage since 1950, and there is some evidence to suggest that they have actually declined. • Drought has “for the most part, become shorter, less frequent, and cover a smaller portion of the U. S. over the last century.”2 Globally, “there has been little change in drought over the past 60 years.” This argument over climate change is promoted by politicians who get campaign money from wind and solar projects and from writers who get grant money from the government for twisting information to reach certain conclusions.