The Washington Post warns, “As the Earth’s oceans have warmed over the last three decades, the grounds for destructive hurricanes have crept northward finds a new study, published by three of the world’s leading tropical weather experts. This observed poleward jog could reflect the first robust signal that the build-up of greenhouse gases from human activity is influencing tropical storms, the authors say.” Newsflash: The U.S. hasn’t been struck by a major hurricane in nearly a decade. Meanwhile, as meteorologist Joe Bastardi has pointed out, “Eight MAJOR hurricanes struck the East Coast in the 1950’s from the Carolinas north.” (Emphasis added.) Additionally, not only was Sandy long overdue, but it was “not the ‘ultimate’ storm by any means for the Northeast, the same way Katrina was not the ‘ultimate’ storm for New Orleans,” Bastardi explains. History shows that far more severe storms have hit the Northeast; alarmists simply won’t look. More…