Hurricane Hysteria

2024 was not a great year for avoiding hurricanes, especially in Florida and I have some personal experience with that.  One of the climate hysterics’ main scare tactics is claiming that the number of hurricanes and their intensity has increased and will further increase in the future, all of course due to CO2 caused warming.  They do this even though the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has specifically said its records don’t support that claim.  Paul Homewood, who writes at Not A Lot Of People Know That, which is definitely worth following, has put together a couple of charts which clearly demonstrate this, using data from Colorado State University, where a lot of the NOAA work is done.  I would encourage you to circulate these widely, especially to friends, acquaintences or colleagues who might be inclined to buy the climate garbage.

A perusal of the charts and Paul’s post shows that from 1980 til the present there is no noticeable trend in either number or intensity of hurricanes.  If you go back even further you will come to the same conclusion, particularly in regard to intensity, which is easier to track based on news reports of large hurricanes hitting land.  Florida and much of the southern US has become far more populated and built up in the last 30 years so the hurricanes that hit land are doing much more damage, but that doesn’t mean there are more of them.  Just another example of not misuse of data and statistics, but just making things up to support a whacked ideology.  (PH Post)