You misread the article. You are wrong about the charge against climate scientists. And there is a hole in the ozone layer.

And you seem to have missed out on the news for quite a while. Multiple high level organizations investigated the charges that scientists had been trying to hide evidence and what was discovered is that the people who were making those charges were lying. They were taking pieces of emails and putting them together to say some things which were, in fact, not said.

And, yes, there is a hole in the ozone hole.

I’ve seen claims that we would see more frequent and stronger storms. That’s storms. Not Cat3 hurricanes hitting the US.

And had you read NOAA on climate change and hurricanes you would have seen that some models predict fewer hurricanes due to stronger wind sheer interfering with hurricane formation.

Might we be seeing this in the graphs I gave you? We see a higher frequency of storms, but not much increase in hurricanes.

The inference I got was that China has closed no plants.

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US electricity plant age – EIA

http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=1830

Rainfall and drought extremes – not the graph I had in my collection but it covers the topic.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/spring-extreme-weather-events-in-2011-in-us-historic-and-record-setting/2011/06/15/AGVMkOXH_blog.html

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Hurricanes and tropical storms per year…

http://blog.benwildeboer.com/2008/tropical-storm-hurricane-frequency/

Here’s another source for hurricane and tropical storm data. From a more mainstream source…

http://policlimate.com/tropical/

And I can’t name one storm of Cat 3 or higher that has hit the US since 2005, so the 2006 cutoff doesn’t bother me much.

The paper you link shows storm number adjustments prior to 1970. And it cuts off at 2006.

I gave you a graph showing what looks like a developing spike well past 1970 and on to 2012. It also shows that most of the increase has been at the sub-hurricane level. A major increase in tropical storms.

Never said that China has not closed a coal plant.

http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/bibliography/related_files/gav0802.pdf

Yes, China has built a lot more new coal capacity than they have closed, but your claim that China has closed no coal plants is incorrect.
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China’s GDP is heavily manufacturing. A lot of it the manufacturing we used to do. If you want to look at who needs to most clean up their CO2 emissions look first to the top 49 before you round up a lynching party for #50.
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One of the effects of climate change seems to be to turn hurricane tracks out to see sooner. It’s too early to say for sure that is what will happen.

It may be that climate change will decrease the number of hurricanes.

Continued droughts in Africa could result in more dust over the eastern Atlantic, cooling down the water in the area where most Atlantic hurricanes form.

I haven’t checked, but the frequency/intensity of Pacific cyclones may be increasing. Again, it will take many years to tell for sure if something is changing and in which direction.

Some models show a decrease in tornadoes as the US warms. Others show them moving farther north, at least during the transitional time.

We might gain a little in terms of intense storm damage. But that’s not going offset the problems floods, droughts and heat waves would bring us for food production. We lose little ag product to hurricanes or tornadoes.
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“If someone showed me statistical proof that these events are happening more frequently than statistical distribution would suggest, there might be something to discuss.”

I’ll post the graph again. This time, give it a look….