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[Brian H]

Phil’s Dad wrote:

Climate change brings excess water where it’s not needed, ie. tsunamis,…

Sorry, I couldn’t let that one go – only because I know you are better than this. Tsunamis are caused by tectonic plate movement. They have never and will never be caused by climate change. The trouble is if you say stuff like this often enough people start to believe it. Then the truth comes out and those same people get really annoyed. (See Climategate). The result is the rest of your argument gets devalued along side the, let’s call them, genuine mistakes.

http://geology.com/articles/tsunami-geology.shtml
Absolutely. A “tsunami” is not “excess water”, it’s just a bloody huge wave. After it passes, you’ve got the same water levels you had before some of it got restless and rearranged your furniture a bit. :cheese:

Warming causes milder weather patterns and reduced air currents, because the temperature and heat-load spread between poles and tropics reduces. Cooling increases the spread and causes more dramatic gradients and flows and weather.

Precisely the opposite of the Gore-Bull Warming story, of course. 😆