Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog 

So..any thoughts and predictions for the 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season?

Quoting Neo from your comment #115.
The thing is, for decades now, climate scientists have been predicting that as the planet warms, extreme weather events would increase in both frequency and intensity. By most objective accounts, that appears to be happening now. No, neither this week's rare powerful tornado, nor the Alaska superstorm--nor last week's monster Northeast snowstorm--can be blamed on climate change. And no honest scientist would claim such a thing. But it would be foolish and premature to aver that there's no connection whatsoever--or that it's all just coincidence.

Quoting Barefootontherocks:

I have no doubt the globe is warming. A mere 15,000 years ago, Puget Sound was covered with glaciers. I have seen with my own eyes shrinking glaciers in Alaska.

Re: The part of your comment I bolded.

I will not jump on the doomsday-squawking bandwagon. Jumping to conclusions never has been my thing. Talk to me about it in five years, and we'll see what's happening.

My truth, at this moment...
The events you mention have been hyped by forecasters and others who wish to make people believe doomsday is here. As I said, I ain't buyin' it.
(edited for clarity)

Quoting Neapolitan:

No "doomsday-squawking". No "bandwagon". No "jumping to conclusions". And no one is asking you to "buy" anything. I'm talking about nothing more than simple, unadulterated facts, such as those presented in this graph:



On a side note, it's funny you mention stalling action for another five years:

World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns

The world is likely to build so many fossil-fuelled power stations, energy-guzzling factories and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it will become impossible to hold global warming to safe levels, and the last chance of combating dangerous climate change will be "lost for ever", according to the most thorough analysis yet of world energy infrastructure.

LMAO. I said nothing about "delaying action." Nor did I aver no connection.

As you can see, I spoke specifically to the part of your comment I bolded. Let me put this way. There is no way I believe, at this moment, that the type of recent weather events you mention at 115 will continue at their recent pace through the next five years. In other words, I do not believe the tipping point you say science has been pointing at for 30 years "is likely happening now."

That's all I said, perhaps not clearly enough to reach the thinking, logical part of your brain.

Quit twisting my words. And quit trying to brainwash me. Something tells me these are not likely possibilities, so perhaps I'll just not post to you in future.