The U.S. Hurricane season
is summer and fall, from
June 1 to November 30.
We are told the
“science is settled,”
and that “climate change
is making hurricanes
more dangerous.”
That's not true.
Hurricanes ARE more costly.
Much of the country
along the southern Atlantic
coast and the Gulf of Mexico
was once swamp land.
Now the southern coast
is built up with hotels, condos,
marinas, shopping centers.
roads, buildings, and
parking lots.
Most of New Orleans
was built below sea level.
Does that make sense ?
Satellite monitoring
allows hurricane
predictions to begin
a week ahead of time,
starting with a tropical
storm.
But the predictions
can change a lot in
just a day or two:
The Stormfax
Weather Almanac
compiled all US
mainland hurricanes
by decade since 1851.
Of course those 170 years
are only a tiny percentage
of Earth's 4.5 billion year
history.
So we don't know
if the past 170 years
was unusual, or typical,
for our planet.
The Stormfax
Weather Almanac
recorded hurricanes
by year, and strength,
using the Saffir-Simpson
wind scale.
Hurricane count by decade,
and the average strength
by decade, are relatively
flat lines, showing
very little change
over the past 170 years.
But hurricane hysteria
will continue, despite the fact
that hurricanes are a normal
part of the Earth’s ecosystem,
as natural as rain, snow,
and seasons.
If scientists can’t accurately
predict the path of a storm
more than one day in advance,
how can they predict
global temperatures
in 100 years ?