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| 380135 | 24125 | Global warming is fairy science | 86 | C_M | Oct 28, 2025 | 2025-10-28T12:54:31-0400 | PeakMaster said: A hurricane in the Caribbean is not indicatives of any type of so-called climate change. It's hurricane season...just like it has been for centuries. Click to expand... When the media started sensationalizing hurricane season I wanted to research for myself. What I found out was even semi-accurate hurricane data does not really exist pre-1958. and the data doesn't really start to get exceptionally accurate until the 1990s. So... Essentially, we really don't have a clue about the frequency or reliable numbers regarding the intensity of hurricane activity until the latter half of the 20th century (this despite the NOAA recognizing hurricane data back to 1861, which is quite absurd). There is documentation of landfalls on the East Coast after white people began to inhabit the area but those are anecdotal accounts that are semi-reliable at best. In the Columbian era of discovery there are accounts made by sailors about hurricanes that never struck land but I would likely classify those as "probably completely unreliable."lol. That said, from soil specimens scientists think they have an idea of hurricane patterns over large stretches of time via sediment cores. Without going into detail, I would imagine some of these cores are more reliable than others.These show some incredibly long periods of inactivity during the Atlantic hurricane season as well as blips with spikes of activity. |