Showing posts with label hurricanes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hurricanes. Show all posts

Saturday, November 3, 2007

TigerHawk On Climate Change and the Mild Hurricane Season

This year has had the mildest hurricane season in thirty years. Of course, there are no portentious headlines or news magazine cover stories asking whether this is evidence that climate change is a crock, even though climate change was -- to activists and activist scientists, at least -- the putative cause of the tough hurricane season two years ago. If the news media were even remotely honest, it would cross-examine the people who claimed that Katrina was caused by global warming and ask them to explain this year's calm in the same context.

Sinclair's Musings: "... and scientists predict that by 2050 there will be 32.9 scare stories for every person in Britain"

If the frequency of hurricanes has nothing to do with climate change then, as far as I and other lay observers are concerned, it is a pretty random pattern. God may not play dice but as we don't know the factors driving hurricanes let us assume they're random.