By last year this time, there had been 8 named storms, including 3 hurricanes. Everyone from Al Gore to the British government contended that this increase in tropical storm activity had but one cause: global warming and thus George Bush and company were solely to blame, after all the CO2 emissions ever to be released in to the atmosphere occurred on Bush’s watch.
Those who disagreed with this position, including the National Hurricane Center, which argued such cyclonic developments occurred in cycles, were notoriously lampooned or derided as extremist, right wing wackos or hacks (in typical leftist name calling fashion).
We were warned that this year would be worse…we were warned that there would be a record number of hurricanes to form and strike the United States, we were warned the coastal areas would be in danger, we were warned that global warming would generate monster hurricanes devastating all in their path. We were warned and we are still waiting.
In this the 3rd month hurricane season there have been only 3 named tropical storms and no hurricanes thus far. The fact of the matter is hurricanes and tropical activity does occur in cycles, just as it has for millenia. Invariably there will be harsh storms like Katrina, these however aren’t new occurrences, nor was Katrina in any way the worse or most deadly storm in history, but then again when has an anti-capitalist leftists ever let the facts stand in the way of a good anti-capitalist/freemarket tirade?
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/08/02/tropical.weather.ap/
