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“We will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act”

In 2004 we moved to Florida and were greeted with 5 hurricanes.. the next year was the same. This thing they called “Global Warming” was going to make this a normal event each year… and our insurance went from $2,000 to $6,500. Our taxes  and our homeowner’s fee’s doubled so that we’d have the funds to cover all these possible hurricanes. Now who do we blame for this:

Global and Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Activity [still] lowest in 30-years

Tropical cyclone (TC) activity worldwide has completely and utterly collapsed during the past 2 to 3 years with TC energy levels sinking to levels not seen since the late 1970s. This should not be a surprise to scientists since the natural variability in climate dominates any detectable or perceived global warming impact when it comes to measuring yearly integrated tropical cyclone activity. With the continuation (persistence) of colder Pacific tropical sea-surface temperatures associated with the effects of La Nina, the upcoming 2009 Atlantic hurricane season should be above average, as we saw in 2008. Nevertheless, since the Atlantic only makes up 10-15% of overall global TC activity each year (climatological average during the past 30 years), continued Northern Hemispheric and global TC inactivity as a whole likely will continue.

The activity has dropped to the same level the market has – the 1970′s. (You’ll notice it peaked in ’92)

Didn’t Al Gore say we would have massive hurricanes?

“When I received the invitation that you generously extended for me to come and speak to you, I did not at first accept, because I was trying to resolve a scheduling conflict. The fifty State Insurance Commissioners were meeting in New Orleans, and asked me to speak about global warming and hurricanes.

There are scientific warnings now of another onrushing catastrophe. We were warned of an imminent attack by Al Qaeda; we didn’t respond. We were warned the levees would break in New Orleans; we didn’t respond. Now, the scientific community is warning us that the average hurricane will continue to get stronger because of global warming. A scientist at MIT has published a study well before this tragedy showing that since the 1970s, hurricanes in both the Atlantic and the Pacific have increased in duration, and in intensity, by about 50 %. The newscasters told us after Hurricane Katrina went over the southern tip of Florida that there was a particular danger for the Gulf Coast of the hurricanes becoming much stronger because it was passing over unusually warm waters in the gulf. The waters in the gulf have been unusually warm. The oceans generally have been getting warmer. And the pattern is exactly consistent with what scientists have predicted for twenty years. Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming. [applause] It is important to learn the lessons of what happens when scientific evidence and clear authoritative warnings are ignored in order to induce our leaders not to do it again and not to ignore the scientists again and not to leave us unprotected in the face of those threats that are facing us right now. [applause]

The President says that he is not sure that global warming is a real threat. He says that he is not ready to do anything meaningful to prepare us for a threat that he’s not certain is real. He tells us that he believes the science of global warming is in dispute. This is the same president who said last week, “Nobody could have predicted that the levees would break.” It’s important to establish accountability in order to make our democracy work. And the uncertainty and lack of resolution, the willful misunderstanding of what the scientific community is saying, the preference for what a few supporters in the coal and oil industry – far from all, but a few – want him to do: ignore the science. That is a serious problem.

Thanks for ignoring him George. When will we wake up to the fact that these scientists are wrong, and really creating a doomsday scenario for ulterior motives? I like to point to David Suzuki as the comparison for the “Climate Change” movement. If you’ve listened to David Suzuki for the past 40 years, you realize that his chicken little act gets to be right every once and a while.. someone should document his apocalyptic predictions and see if he’s managed to get 10% of his predictions right. I’d bet he hasn’t hit 5%. And for some strange reason, we continue to listen to these people.