The climate alarmists claim that global warming will lead to more frequent and more severe hurricanes. Nature doesn’t seem to be cooperating.

As University of Alabama climatologist and Cornwall Alliance Senior Fellow Dr. Roy W. Spencer points out:

In less than two months (October 6, 2016) it will be 4,000 days since the last time a major hurricane made landfall in the U.S., which was Wilma on October 24, 2005.

Wilma was a record-setter, being the strongest Atlantic hurricane on record, with peak estimated sustained winds of 183 mph and lowest surface pressure of 882 mb. That surface preesure corresponds to a 13% removal of atmospheric mass in the core of the hurricane compared to normal sea level pressure.

But after the record-setting 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, with a whopping 27 named tropical storms, the bottom pretty much dropped out of hurricane activity since then.

After an unusual January hurricane this year (which I don’t meteorologically count as part of the 2016 season), we’ve had one system (Earl) that briefly achieved hurricane status before making landfall in Belize several days ago ….

Roy provides the graph above comparing 2005, 2015, 2016 (so far), and 1944–2005 average. Nope, doesn’t appear to be any increase over the average, and the complete absence of Cat-3 or higher storms making landfall since October 2005 is utterly contrary to the doomsters’ predictions.

 

 

 

Featured image courtesy of Dr. Roy W. Spencer.