is this meant to be satire:

Can’t believe some people still don’t agree with climate change.

?

Because it’s not funny.

Climate change kills, dude. Do you agree with the killing of 300,000 innocent people per annum, according to the UN Secretary-General?

Nobody else does. Every decent person opposes man-made global warming. If you’re seriously for it (and not just being sarcastic), then I respect my right to disagree, but I won’t fight for your right to complain when you find yourself living—with apologies to the original Chinese—in interesting times.

You deserve them.

One quibble with an otherwise excellent post:

This is wrong. There is no such thing as a storm of any kind that is not a function of the current climatology.

Sorry, but blaming the current climate science for storms is magical thinking straight out of a Simpsons episode. Anyone remember what the pitchfork-wielding mob shouted after North America narrowly escaped destruction by an asteroid?

“Let’s burn down the observatory so this can never happen again!”

Anyway, all this rather-troubling discussion of maritime storms that have now been enhanced by a six-inch sub’s worth of SLR has gotta make even the most ostrichistic of denialists nostalgic for long-gone hiatus.

*smiles wistfully*

I’m sure we all remember those precious, all-too-brief years when there was no detectable warming, and hence no detectable sea-level rise (because there was no detectable warming, and sea-level rise is caused by warming)?

True, in that the *occurrence* of, say, a hurricane cannot be attributed to climate change. However, the great *severity* of that hurricane CAN be attributed to climate change.

I didn’t see how to view past data there — data before and during Harvey’s growth.

http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sfc_daily.php?plot=ssa&inv=0&t=cur