While
the residents of Houston, Texas and the surrounding towns are still reeling from
the onslaught of Hurricane Harvey, the left wing pundits and false prophets are
spieling about man-made
climate change foolishness as being the cause.They are even saying that our future is dire and that these dangerous hurricanes are on the increase. Just complete nonsense.
As noted in a recent edition of
Investors Business Daily, ever since Hurricane Katrina in 2004, climate-change
advocates have warned that hurricanes and storms would be far worse as a result
of global warming. It was inevitable, we were told.
Number of Severe Hurricanes Have
Declined Sharply
But the fact is, since 2010, the
number of severe, category 4 hurricanes has declined sharply. Moreover, those
who follow hurricanes and tropical storms for a living suggest global warming
isn't the cause.
CNN Newsroom host John Berman asked
former National Hurricane Center Director Bill Read point-blank whether climate
change had affected the intensity of Hurricane Harvey.
Read said he "probably wouldn't
attribute (global warming to) what we're looking at here. This is not an
uncommon occurrence to see storms grow and intensify rapidly in the western
Gulf of Mexico. That is, as long as we've been tracking them, that has
occurred."
A Weather Pattern. Not Climate Change
In short, it's part of a long-term
weather pattern — not climate change. And a look at the number of hurricanes by
decade shows conclusively that the number and severity of hurricanes have
mostly declined in recent decades, not risen.
"There is no reason to be
debating Harvey and climate change in the context of an unfolding disaster, other
than political opportunism and attention-seeking," said climate scientist
and University of Colorado Professor Roger Pielke. "It's not a good look
for scientists or journalists who are promoting this issue."
Pielke destroys the notion that
global warming has made hurricanes or tropical storms worse by noting that
from 1926 to 1969, a period of 44 years, there were 14 category 4 hurricanes
that made landfall. From 1970 to 2017, or 47 years, there have been just
four.
If anything, if you were a global
warming advocate and being honest, you'd have to say that higher temperatures
have caused the number of severe hurricanes hitting the U.S. to decline by 70%.
All of the news shows, newspapers,
news websites and magazines will be peddling the same shamanistic nonsense:
Global warming is to blame for everything nasty in the natural world, but
especially for the brutal hurricanes that occasionally rip into our coast. But
the facts show it just ain't true.
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