Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Ah Yes, I Remember It Well

Remember when Hurricane Katrina was the poster boy for man-caused global warming's impact on the planet? Remember how it was just the beginning of increased hurricane activity and intensity? Again, because of man-caused global warming. Remember?

Sure you do. Al Gore rode it to riches and movie glory.

Now let's examine what happened since then:

After Hurricane Katrina and the amazing season of 2005, we were supposed to see year after year of terrible hurricanes. Where are they?

Where is all the death and destruction? We were told global warming was here, and would ignite a fire under the storms, making them bigger and more frequent. Massive hurricanes like Katrina would become much more common. The world’s oceans were warming, and this would stoke the fires of these tropical monsters. But they are not here — the hurricanes are missing in action, and have been ever since 2005. The truth: there has been a dramatic decrease in the number of hurricanes in the last five years. The total energy of all hurricanes around the world has plunged since 1993 — the opposite of what was predicted. How could that be, if global warming is real and is impacting our climate today?

I guess the reason warmists want to call it global "weirding" or just climate "change" is because it is weird that the climate isn't warming the way the models say it should or reacting to that warming in ways that they say it will.