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Kerry Emanuel wrote an article published in Nature documenting how the overall intensity, frequency, and duration of hurricances has steadily increased over the last 30 years, over and above expected cycles and fluctuations. Briefly, hurricanes now dump more than twice as much energy onto land per year, with a 50% increase in average peak wind speed and a 60% increase in cumulative storm duration. The author writes:
The article was published in August, 2005. Remember any news stories from September 2005 related to hurricanes?
Saying that you'll move somewhere 20 feet above sea level because sea level is only expected to rise inches per year is a bit short-sighted.
If you're interested in reading the scientific community's nail-in-the-coffin to the belief that global warming is fictional, check out this . It's the result of a review of 928 peer-reviewed scientific publications dealing with climate change, and summarizes how every major scientific organization studying climate change agrees on the fact that global warming is both real and the result of human activity.
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