Rec this thread if you think the crazy weather of recent times is due to human-caused climate change

[garybeck]

11. Nope. Sorry, but

yes it is gradual. that's exactly what's happening. Otherwise we'd be having storms like this on a weekly basis. The fact is that the trend is that storm patterns are changing. here in vermont we've had the "100 year flood" twice in the last year. Hurricanes like Irene and Sandy are bigger and stronger and reaching further North than normally happens. We've had extreme drought,there have been extreme an unusual weather patterns for the last few years. The global mean temperature has been rising steadily. Glaciers are melting all over the planet. I heard several officials in NJ and NY saying they have never seen anything like Sandy in their entire lives. The same thing with Irene last year.

This is exactly what scientists (and Gore) have been predicting.

even in your post you said "climate change is manifest." If it is manifest, then how can you deny that the strange weather patterns are unrelated?