its one of them 'research' things that scientists do. Push something that is hard to prove or disprove, as the only way of knowing for sure will take time!
everything I've seen says (and I just checked again) says over 97% of climate scientists agree climate change /global warming is a real thing and we're causing it
if you check up on the "scientists" to disagree with it who we keep hearing about, they're nothing to do with climate studies etc.... wtf does a school biology teacher know about it compared to someone who's spent their life studying it ?
Hurricanes have happened since the day dot. They can only occur in warm waters
yeah... the sea has warmed up 2'C in the last 10 or so years... 2'C doesn't sound like much but apparently that's crap loads
as for solar/wind power - maybe climate change is just the excuse needed because of the cost in solar/wind compared to coal. Coal is expensive because less & less is being mined. Similar with Oil - Opec throttle how much is outputted. You still need oil/coal power stations, as not every day is windy enough for the wind farms & I do not really know how much Solar energy is stored (for night time use) compared to how much of it is pumped straight into the national grid to be used
that's wrong, solar and wind are cheaper than cola/gas/nuke now - that's why everyone's rushing to install a crap load
thing with solar and wind (and hydro) is once you've installed them that's pretty much it, they run practically cost free for the next 30 years
thing about wind and 'what do we do when it's not windy' is that it's always windy somewhere, idea being you build more wind turbines than you need so while one location isn't doing much the other locations make up for it
plus.. we have giant grid interconnects running to Northern Ireland, Southern Ireland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.... plus they're already building another to Belgium and then new ones to Norway, Belgium and Iceland
when it's dark or calm somewhere it's sunny or windy somewhere else
plus most of Norway's power comes from hydro - they have so much hydro power they give electricity away for free in the winter... they could sell that to us cheap instead :-)
you're right about storage, there's no where near enough for us to go without coal/gas/nuke... right now it's cheaper to run coal/gas/nuke than it is to build enough storage to dump them.... storage prices are dropping fast, so give it a few years and it'll be cheaper to store solar/wind than to keep running coal/gas/nuke plants