NOAA makes it official: 2011 among most extreme weather years in history

Climatologists have been warning that increasing atmospheric carbon will lead to more severe storms, tornadoes and hurricanes for the past 30 years.
Where have you been???

Yes, that's a common tactic. Total ignorance and spin. And you are correct that this is a major problem. The changes are occurring faster than we can adapt to them as we continue to add to them which just increases the effects in a viscious cycle. I don't see what is so hard to understand about that.

I've been watching the increasingly worstening fires, droughts, floods and storms since I first became aware of global warming back in the mid-1980s.
EVERYTHING climatologists warned would happen IS HAPPENING and far faster than ANYONE predicted because of positive climate feedbacks from melting tundra and bigger fires.
The deniers have changed their position many times since the 80s. First they said it was a liberal conspiracy out to destroy capitalism. Then in the 90s when global warming began to become undeniable they said it was a good thing and that crops would grow faster. Next they said it was thousands of leading scientists from every nation fudging data. Finally they are saying that it is arrogant to propose that humans can change climate by reducing carbon dioxide emissions even though we have already changed the climate with our Co2 emissions.
Meanwhile we are rapidly passing the climate tipping point and still nothing of significance is being done to stop it -- all because of these deniers who are partisan liars.
How much worse does it have to get before we take action?

Why wait. We should be setting aside egos and be personally responsible for our individual carbon foot prints within our individual means. We should already be doing this.
The remark "that it is arrogant to propose that humans can change climate" stems from arrogance and ignorance, and it is up to us to prove them wrong. Change is occuring in attitudes slowly, but quicker than the environment can snap back. No quick fix is available, and being impatient can drive you nuts. Press on.

200 times faster? So you really fall for sensationalistic journalistic expressions?
With increasing populations and civilisations covering a wider area, weather events are more noticed and reported more often. Of course the monetary value of natural disasters is going to rise, what else would you expect?
Similar, and worse events have happened previous to this year, only then extreme weather was seen for exactly what it was - extreme weather.

Ah yes, it's a continuous downward spiral into calamity now, isn't it? All these feedbacks and the flooding of the atmosphere with that nasty chemical CO2... we might as well give up now, we're doomed!!! Everything is spiralling into disaster faster than ever, quicker than predicted, worse than dreamt of... how will we ever survive?

Do you ever look out your window? Been to many places, have you? Seen a bit of the world?

Actually the more I read your comments the more I'm learning:
Everything that happened before the industrial revolution was good, normal, nice and stable.
After the industrial revolution, everything is man's fault, disastrous and a one-way slide into mayhem.

I have lived in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Colorado, California and Hawaii for many years and from what I've observed droughts and fires and floods and severe storms ARE getting a lot worse all around the world.
You deniers are liars!

Wow! You really have seen the world, haven't you!!!
Actually, I must apologise, if you say droughts, fires, floods and severe storms are getting worse then who am I to say otherwise? I mean, what with all the training you've had, and your experience of world travel, you're really at the cutting edge of climatology.

Sorry for feeding the troll but I must just comment:

There is nothing worse than arrogant ignorance.

Man is doing this because he thinks he is God.