Have you heard much about hurricane Karen? I doubt it. For those of you who do not follow weather stories closely, Karen is the name of the tropical storm that formed earlier this week in the Gulf off the coast of Louisiana. For about a day, there were stories about how Karen was taking aim at New Orleans. Then the storm fizzled. Right now, Karen has highest winds of 35 miles per hour, hardly more than a big thunderstorm. More important, Karen is not coming ashore, but rather is just grazing the coast of Louisiana. That means that the storm will stay out at sea and yet it will still decline and dissipate. Once again this year, a tropical storm formed, failed to reach even minimal hurricane strength and then blew itself out.
So why is this important? The simple answer is that we are on track to have the quietest hurricane season in over 35 years. Remember those stories that told us that hurricane Katrina was the result of global warming? How about those stories that blamed hurricane Sandy on global warming last year? Indeed, each time in the last decade there have been strong storms, the media is quick to connect that event to global warming. But now that there are no big storms, now that we are at an historic low in tropical storm activity, do we get a spate of stories announcing that this somehow disproves global warming theories? Of course not!
The truth is that hurricane activity comes in cycles. We have a run of years in which the hurricane are numerous and strong followed by years when the storms are few and far between. That has been the pattern since records of the storms were first kept. Nothing has changed. The so called global warming did not alter that reality. The truth is that all those stories linking global warming to hurricane activity were fiction, not fact. Folks need to realize that. It is time to take a realistic look at the entirety of global warming theory. We need to look at the actual facts, not the fanciful creations of activist reporters who are already true believers. Unless we all move towards science and away from global warming superstitions and hysteria, we may well take our society down a road where we waste precious resources accomplishing nothing.
So why is this important? The simple answer is that we are on track to have the quietest hurricane season in over 35 years. Remember those stories that told us that hurricane Katrina was the result of global warming? How about those stories that blamed hurricane Sandy on global warming last year? Indeed, each time in the last decade there have been strong storms, the media is quick to connect that event to global warming. But now that there are no big storms, now that we are at an historic low in tropical storm activity, do we get a spate of stories announcing that this somehow disproves global warming theories? Of course not!
The truth is that hurricane activity comes in cycles. We have a run of years in which the hurricane are numerous and strong followed by years when the storms are few and far between. That has been the pattern since records of the storms were first kept. Nothing has changed. The so called global warming did not alter that reality. The truth is that all those stories linking global warming to hurricane activity were fiction, not fact. Folks need to realize that. It is time to take a realistic look at the entirety of global warming theory. We need to look at the actual facts, not the fanciful creations of activist reporters who are already true believers. Unless we all move towards science and away from global warming superstitions and hysteria, we may well take our society down a road where we waste precious resources accomplishing nothing.
No comments:
Post a Comment