caught me a bit drunk. we talking tornadoes or hurricanes?

It's like we live on different planets. The truth I know is the opposite of what you wrote.

Fewer and weaker tornadoes have definitely been linked to climate change.

The IPCC says there are no linakges to hurricanes. Aw hell, let me go look up specifics

Here is what the IPCC says exactly:

> “[T]here is still no consensus on the relative magnitude of human and natural influences on past changes in Atlantic hurricane activity, and particularly on which factor has dominated the observed increase (Ting et al., 2015) and it remains uncertain whether past changes in Atlantic TC activity are outside the range of natural variability.”

The IPCC has concluded that since 1900 there is > “no trend in the frequency of USA landfall events.” This goes for all hurricanes and also for the strongest hurricanes, called major hurricanes.

More broadly, > Continental U.S. landfalls are just a small proportion of all North Atlantic hurricanes, which in turn are just a small proportion of all global tropical cyclone activity. Since at least 1980, there are no clear trends in overall global hurricane and major hurricane activity.

And then there's this (emphasis mine): > here are many characteristics of tropical cyclones that are under study and hypothesized to be potentially affected by human influences (including but not limited to greenhouse gas forcings). These include tropical cyclone rainfall intensity, speed of storm movement, latitude of storm formation, pace of intensification, length of seasonality and many more. You can easily find different studies and different scientists with contrasting views on the role of human influence on tropical cyclones, but at present, there is not a unified community consensus on these hypotheses, as summarized by the World Meteorological Organization in several recent expert assessments.

Nobody is saying the planet will die. The planet will do just fine; our coastal cities might be underwater, but the planet won't care about that.

The IPCC says the only weather extremes linked to climate change are increased high temperature records outside the tropics and subtropics, and more heat waves.

The IPCC specifically excludes things like increased rain, increased drought, stronger winter storms, stronger summer storms, etc. So any time you hear some activist claiming weather is caused by climate change, know that the mainstream scientists have said it's not true.

The oddest prediction was decreased land-falling hurricanes in the US, but right after that prediction was published we had the longest period in history of no major hurricanes hitting the US.

The IPCC begs to differ...

I feel like you're talking about the climate alarmism social movement, not the scientific theory of climate change.

This isn't really surprising.

This is the most basic predicted effect of climate change.

The higher latitudes increase temperature much more than the sub-tropical latitudes, so the air mixing east of the rockies will on average have a much smaller temperature differential.

smaller temperature difference means fewer and weaker tornadoes.

c'mon, work with me here.

how are we supposed to get anti-gravity generators if antimatter has positive gravitational effect?

how did you not realize that the first time you did one?

does antimatter weigh the same as matter, or would that be an antigram?

hol up.

if neutrons have a neutral charge and antineutrons also have a neutral charge...

what's anti about it?

at least he wasn't dragged to his death in the Bronx.

the sunni-shiite wars were also really brutal.

i don't really understand why there wasn't ...

well, let's not go there.

european christians learned to separate church and state after their religious wars. that doesnt seem to be a universal lesson.

"left millions dead" is a huge understatement.

There were areas that were completely depopulated several times.

By "completely depopulated" I mean no people left, no farm animals left, no cats or dogs left. Even trees were pretty much exterminated in some areas.