They must have been driving a lot of Hummers in the 16th century. Do these people have any clue how completely FOS they sound?
http://www.hindu.com/2010/12/02/stories/2010120265341100.htm
“There is one striking feature that has been observed and that is that most of the extreme events like hurricanes, tropical storms, heat waves, rainfall are regional in nature and it would be difficult to generalise or make projections on a global scale,” Dr. Asrar said.
However, the magnitude and frequency were showing an upward trend.
The episodes of high temperatures were likely to be more frequent than cold. The heat wave in July in Russia was worse than the heat wave of Europe in 2003, which was in a class of its own.
The heat wave in Russia was unprecedented since the 1500s.
“These events, which are large in magnitude and different from past events, support the IPCC findings that the frequency, magnitude and extent of events are going to be different from the past,” he added.
Even the IPCC’s fourth assessment report warned that the number of heat waves was going to increase and warm nights are on the rise. Dr. Asrar said the heat was drying the soil and causing droughts in some parts.
Using the case studies of extreme events in the last decade, it was possible to project that extreme events would be greater in the future, he said.
The frequency of tropical storms, hurricanes, cyclones would be higher in magnitude as the IPCC had said.
I wonder how long Mr Asrar would last in his no doubt well paid cushy job if he said nothing much was changing with the climate.
The climate is changing but the need is to show it is due to warming which is caused by GHGs. The better jobs go to those that are the most creative in their research such as Susan Solomon and Jim Hansen! Hansen wrote a model to “Prove” the globe was entering a new cold period due to human released pollutants just in time for the climate shift of 1975 that lead to warming so his model was adjusted to fit another fantasy of CO2 forcing global warming. Now he is Director of GISS. See how well GIGO works!
The same frequency as during the depth of the LIA. YEAH that’s about right. During the globe’s colder periods the regional weather was marked by more dramatic events so being equal to conditions in the 1500s or even the 1300s would sound logical. It is those special mirrors they use to show black is white that gets them confused.
So any difference from the past, they claim, is human-caused. How convenient to conflate the issues that way.
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pick one pls