We should all be praying for those in the path of Hurricane Florence, regardless whether she turns out catastrophic or only (as hurricanes go) a relatively minor problem, and those in her path should be taking all sensible steps to shield themselves from harm, while others prepare to help quickly in the aftermath. At the same time, we should not allow climate-change alarmists to distort the facts by claiming that recent global warming–manmade or otherwise–has caused more frequent or more intense hurricanes. It’s caused neither, and in fact the intensity of hurricanes making landfall in the United States has been declining, as Cornwall Alliance Senior Fellow Dr. Roy Spencer (Principal Research Scientist in Climatology at the University of Alabama-Huntsville, and U.S. Science Team Leader on NASA’s Aqua satellite global temperature monitoring system) shows in this graph.