That's funny. Every time I hear a climatologist interviewed during a great storm, the climatologist says "Well, I can't tell you one way or another about THIS storm, but the overall trend is..." What reporters and men on the street say is not the climatologists' fault. I have never heard anybody, activist or climatologist, say that the whole thing started 20 or 30 years ago. It's a long slow climb, not a cliff.
The issue is what's happening in the large numbers, not what's happening in individual instances. Great storms have always happened; see the Galveston Flood*. The climate change issue is that the models predict, and have predicted for some time, that the frequency of large storms is rising, and the data bear this out.
* My father used to say that my untidy bedroom looked like the Galveston Flood.
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The issue is what's happening in the large numbers, not what's happening in individual instances. Great storms have always happened; see the Galveston Flood*. The climate change issue is that the models predict, and have predicted for some time, that the frequency of large storms is rising, and the data bear this out.
* My father used to say that my untidy bedroom looked like the Galveston Flood.
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