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Hurricanes? New Orleans will never recover. That same season saw a couple other storms that were just as strong but luckily missed worst case scenarios.

I wouldn't be shocked if cat five hurricanes became pretty common in a couple of decades due to warmer waters, and one or two of those a year would devastate coastal economies.

But I'm not a weatherman...

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And these statements are based on what? There have been some major earthquakes around the world in the last 20 years, are they also caused by global warming? Do you project an increase in them in the next 20 years?

Here's a page with good, updated information about global warming and hurricanes: https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/

Goodness, that was a ridiculously condescending comment considering you could have just provided the NOAA link and had a positive discussion instead.

>Goodness, that was a ridiculously condescending comment

I read no condescension in it.

Melting icecaps over Greenland and Antarctica will almost certainly result in seismic, and potentially volcanic activity, as the continental plate rises, having been relieved of kilometers worth of ice cap.

Though the timescale will likely be on the order of decades or centuries, not 20 years.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080314-warmi...

Actually Wisconsin isn't by any fault lines and occasionally gets an earth quake (very small). From the glacier recession of the last ice age. Turns out glaciers are heavy and bedrock is still uncompressing.

So we do have proof of weather changes causing earthquakes.

Though I doubt anyone has data or models that would be useful for this tangent. At least for oceanic fault lines, which could be affected by ocean rise.

Earthquakes have no known cause so doesn't support your point well

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