Hurricanes for you SUV owners!

Hurricane season is here again in FL, sweeeet. I missed all of the ones from last year as I was still in NJ waiting for my house to be built. Dennis totally missed my neck of the woods, but hopefully we'll see Emily pay us a visit so I can hit up one of my brother-n-law's hurricane parties. Yeah I know...I probably should be bitching and complaining, creating TO-DO lists, and tracking the storms every hour like everyone else. But my preparedness is a given. I'm more concerned with having a good time enjoying all of Mother Nature’s glory.

From Planet Moron comes a funny little post concerning global warming. With the 4 major hurricanes from last year, combined with the first couple this year, climatologists advocating a global-warming alarmist agenda seem ready to blow a load.

The sky is warming, the sky is warming

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First, it’s important to understand that no matter what the data, it proves that global warming not only exists but is caused by human activity, and not only caused by human activity but caused by you and your SUV.

Increased Atlantic hurricane activity is the most recent topic of controversy. Hurricane experts believe it is all part of well understood long-term cycles. As Chris Landsea of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says, “The folks in the field are unanimous in saying that global warming doesn’t have an appreciable impact on hurricanes today and that changes in the future look to be really tiny,”

Climatologists involved in global warming advocacy disagree based on one of the fundamental pillars of scientific thought: The preconceived notion. Since their models say that every time you fire up your leaf blower a tropical depression forms off the African continent then it must be so.

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Elsewhere global warming advocates point to “record high” temperatures in the North Atlantic. Since records go back over 50 years, which we believe was the time when dinosaurs last roamed the earth, we can take this as a climatologically significant data point.

What isn’t significant? Well, there is the fact that a similar warming trend was recorded in the 1960s (this was prior to the SUV era when our primitive ancestors drove around in four-wheeled vehicles they called “cars”) and the below-average temperatures being recorded in the Labrador current. These are known as “anomalies.” Scientists don’t like anomalies as they call into question the premise on which all their funding is based.

Hey, you try to get a grant to study the “impending global threat of things pretty much staying the way they are."

Cato has plenty of studies, op-eds, and books on this country's global warming hysteria. Patrick Michaels work on this subject is definitely worth a look as well.