The Patriot Post® · More and Worse Hurricanes? Nope

Climate change is the Left’s “god of the gaps.” It’s the scapegoat for bad governance and the bogeyman used to threaten people to comply with the Left’s people-last agenda. It bares a passing resemblance to ancient pagan civilizations. Like those long-ago primitive peoples, climate change cultists also seek to appease an angry god by sacrificing humanity. They do this via green energy boondoggles that attempt to take away modern necessities like fans and gas stoves and cars, the latter of which actually get people places without a battery recharge lull in the middle.

Climate change is now regularly blamed for an increase in hurricane intensity and frequency. In other words, there are more hurricanes now, and those hurricanes are more often a Category 3 or higher because of humanity’s carbon footprint and use of fossil fuels and aerosols.

This is a lie, plain and simple. Looking at the actual hurricane data, it’s easily disproved.

Even the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) debunks this particular untruth. A summary NOAA released in May 2023 definitively states: “Several Atlantic hurricane activity metrics show pronounced increases since 1980. However, evidence for any significant trends is much weaker considering trends beginning from the early 20th century, partly due to observed data limitations.” In other words, we have been recording hurricane activity for more than 150 years, and weather patterns, when viewed over that longer period of time, show no anomalous trends in hurricane fluctuation (either number or intensity).

Here is the visual representation that NOAA used to illustrate the point:

NOAA’s table shows the accumulated data from as early as 1860. When viewed on a larger time scale, the current trend in hurricane frequency shows little to no change since the 1900s and is actually trending slightly downward in terms of intensity.

In the shorter term (1980-2023), it seems like perhaps the U.S. is being pummeled by more hurricanes. But though hurricanes are scary and potentially devastating storms, their occurrences haven’t increased in either of the scary metrics like climate alarmists would have you believe.

In fact, climate change due to humanity — which has been dubbed the “climate emergency” by climate cultists — is being denounced by more and more scientists. For example, 1,609 scientists from around the world, including two Nobel laureates, just signed on to a declaration stating that “there is no climate emergency.” But the ecofascists will continue to push the alarmism, because who cares about actual data? Climate change, after all, has become such a useful political tool that such sane declarations sound unusual and newsworthy.

The alarmists, some politicians, and those with a misanthropic agenda write off hurricanes as a judgment on humanity. But it’s not even really about saving the planet. It’s all about power, their fanatical religion, and appeasing their ever-angry “god of the gaps.”