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The question really isn't whether the weather has been getting warmer -- even the scientists that most actively support the theory of global warming agree that we are in the midst of a natural warming cycle. The question is actually whether or not human activity has accelerated the cycle, and most scientists think it has.
I agree that blaming the hurricanes on recent activity is stupid, though. Even if human activity were the reason for them, it's not like we all of a sudden started burning fossil fuels and made the temperature spike. Global warming is a gradual increase, and you have to blame human activity over the past 200 years, not over the past five, for any kind of acceleration of the cycle.
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