abajan wrote:southerngale wrote:If it was global warming, there'd be an increase in tropical activity in other basins (globally). Instead, activity has actually been on the decline in recent years. The increase in tropical storms is because the Atlantic is in an active cycle right now.
Yep, that sounds about right to me. Also, the point made earlier about the volume of greenhouse gasses emitted by volcanoes makes a lot of sense. I myself have stated this apparently largely ignored fact on several occasions in various fora.
It's not an ignored issue! It has been examined and falsified in several independent ways. Most definitively, the isotopic ratios of GHGs observed in the atmosphere are quite different from what is emitted by volcanic activity, and almost exactly what one would expect if the entire observed increase in GHGs were due to human activity.