But was it unprecedented and attributable to manmade global warming? Guest column by Joe D'Aleo Hurricane Ida came ashore in Louisiana as a strong CAT4 hurricane. It produced major flooding and wind damage and widespread lengthy power outages in Louisiana where at least 6 people have died. [Editor's note: Louisiana death toll from Ida had risen to 14 by September 7.] Ida then turned northeast and then east. On the way out to sea, the storm spun up 5 tornadoes in PA and NJ to MD late … [Read more...]
Cornwall’s Dr. Roy Spencer Tells Tucker Carlson: Climate Change Is Not Causing More Hurricanes
Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation Senior Fellow Dr. Roy W. Spencer set the record straight about hurricanes Friday night on Tucker Carlson's Fox News talk show. One of Dr. Spencer's main points in the interview was, as his graph (at right) showed, that the number of intense hurricanes making landfall in the United States has decreased by 50 percent since the 1930's and 1940's. That's contrary to the expectations of global warming alarmists like Al Gore and Michael Mann, who, … [Read more...]
Bringing Much-Needed Reality to Extreme Weather Claims
For decades, headlines around the world have claimed that various extreme weather events---hurricanes, typhoons, floods, droughts, heat waves, wildfires, even cold snaps---are driven by global warming. Similar claims have persisted in the record-breaking cold afflicting North America this winter. Such claims become rationale for expensive policies to mitigate the warming by cutting CO2 emissions, achievable only by reducing fossil fuel use and substituting wind and solar energy … [Read more...]
