Hurricane Harvey is expected to hit the Texas coast tomorrow night. If all goes as predicted, it will be the first major hurricane to hit the USA in 12 years. That is the longest stretch without a major hurricane strike since ever recorded in the USA.
So take a step back and think about this. In 2000, Al Gore and his group (the "Gorenishts") told us endlessly that global warming was about to cause a major upsurge in extreme weather situations. America and the world would be beset by enormous storms, tornadoes and floods. Only by stopping carbon emissions could we hope to slow the inevitable march towards destruction by these megastorms. That was followed by a period in which there were remarkably fewer storms, tornadoes and floods. Indeed, a hurricane like Harvey is now so rare that for many people it is the biggest hurricane in their lifetime.
Given how wrong the global warming predictions were, you would expect a recognition by the global warming crowd of their error and an admission that the computer models that predicted these storms were wrong. But that's not what happened. Instead, without missing a beat, "global warming" became climate change, a major upsurge in extreme weather became a decline in major storms but they say that it still is all due to higher carbon emissions. In essence, everything is due to climate change.
So take a step back and think about this. In 2000, Al Gore and his group (the "Gorenishts") told us endlessly that global warming was about to cause a major upsurge in extreme weather situations. America and the world would be beset by enormous storms, tornadoes and floods. Only by stopping carbon emissions could we hope to slow the inevitable march towards destruction by these megastorms. That was followed by a period in which there were remarkably fewer storms, tornadoes and floods. Indeed, a hurricane like Harvey is now so rare that for many people it is the biggest hurricane in their lifetime.
Given how wrong the global warming predictions were, you would expect a recognition by the global warming crowd of their error and an admission that the computer models that predicted these storms were wrong. But that's not what happened. Instead, without missing a beat, "global warming" became climate change, a major upsurge in extreme weather became a decline in major storms but they say that it still is all due to higher carbon emissions. In essence, everything is due to climate change.
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