tautologies wrote:...As temperatures rise, we'll have harsher storms, more of them, weather patterns will be more volatile, temperatures swing more...
Watched too much AlGore lately? Look, nobody denies there is an effect that more CO2 should trap some heat. The big issue here is the complex feedback loops, so that nobody has a clue if we would have one, two degree increase by the end of the century, or zilch. Currently, it looks like negative feedbacks win. Otherwise, what "global warming hiatus" are researchers currently talking about?
Let me put it in more simple terms. Several decades ago climate researchers were certain that CO2 would cause more warming, that will cause thawing sea ice, that would cause decreased albedo, which would bring even more warming. Hence the term "polar amplification". Some researchers were even so bold to predict in 1970s that Antarctic temperature would raise by 5-10 degrees in next 50 years jeopardizing West Antarctic Ice Shield (Mercer, Nature 1978). And what temperature history since 1970s is?
http://www.nerc-bas.ac.uk/icd/gjma/amun ... .trend.pdf
That is entirely consistent with Antarctic sea ice showing no change, or even growing.
So, if somebody tells you predictions that consistently fail to materialize
(e.g. Al Gore 2007: "Arctic would be free of sea ice in 5 years")
do you still believe him?