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July 30, 2007

Moonbats Still Insist Global Warming Is Causing Plague of Hurricanes

Despite the high hopes of global warming enthusiasts for another Katrina, last year's hurricane season turned out to be a complete dud. It's looking like this year won't make for much of an apocalypse either. But don't think this will spare you from the Left's tireless propagandizing on the theme of man-made global warming causing hurricanes to be more numerous and severe.

The political hacks on the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change continue to screech that it is "more likely than not" that our refusal to forsake our modern ways is making hurricanes worse.

A new study props up this notion by finding that the number of observed tropical storms and hurricanes has increased over the last 100 years, as has sea surface temperatures (by a less than staggering 1.3°F).

This could be because Al Gore actually has some clue what he's talking about. But I doubt it. It is far more likely due to the fact that many storms went unnoticed until we started using satellites to track them in the 1970s.

More evidence that the world is coming to an end thanks to our power plants and SUVs is the factoid that four of the top ten costliest storms in American history occurred in 2004. If you think this is due to coastal areas having been built up significantly, so that storms don't have to be any stronger to cause much more damage in financial terms, you haven't been drinking your Kool-Aid.

On a tip from Mega.

Posted by Van Helsing at July 30, 2007 7:11 AM