Climatistas Are Committed, But Should They Be “Committed”?

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Power Line:

Steven Hayward

August 7, 2016

 

Everyone remember Hurricane Katrina in 2005? The climatistas fell all over themselves to rush to attribute Katrina to climate change—it was either Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or Al Gore Jr. (they seem to be in a race to see who can be the crazier carrier of their family legacy) who said Katrina should have been called “climate change,” or “Hurricane Exxon-Mobil” or something. And we were promised that this was the future.

 

So—heh: The Washington Post reported yesterday on the record long hurricane “drought” the U.S. has experienced since Katrina:

 

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Wait, what? I thought the science was settled! Oh, turns out it is:

 

Adam Sobel, a climate scientist at Columbia University, cautions that the drought in no way invalidates global warming predictions or the expectation that storms will grow more intense in future decades. The “notion that the hurricane drought in the Atlantic has somehow disproved the consensus projections of climate science is wrong, because the drought is still a relatively short-term fluctuation in a single basin, while the projections are for long-term global trends” . . .

 

 

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