#geologistproblems

I was traveling this weekend and got picked up at the airport by a ride-share. After finding out I'd been in the path of one of the many hurricanes hitting the Americas, the guy asked me what was my "outake on the reason we're having so many storms." And my very first thought was:

He then goes on to clarify that some people think the US government have a sonic weapon controlling the weather, but that these people were obviously wrong because the storms had hit the US, and "why would the government do that?"

Me:

So I go into my little spiel about how these storms, while only the weather of one year, are symptomatic of our changing climate and that this in line with what our models predict the future to hold.

Him:

I think, maybe I was wrong and I've met a rational human after all.

But then he says: "Here's my out take. Don't you think it's weird that something that happens only once every hundreds of years, you know the eclipse, that that thing happens and then bam! One right after another we get all these big storms. I don't know, seems like a pretty big coincidence to me."

Me:

So apparently, it's not a changing climate that's causing crazy hurricanes, it's: