Last year at this time, the busy liberal media, which, I swear, starts each day searching the news wires counting dead bodies in Iraq and Afghanistan so they can create huge dour headlines, then going over to their weather-o-meters to find shocking extreme weather “man-made global warming events” to report, like earthquakes created by Bush, predicted a massive record-breaking hurricane season. A killer year! Yay! Dwarfing the yummy stories about the Katrina storm that Bush created to kill all the black folk after he first sabotaged the levee in an evil scheme rivalling Hitler’s acts of horror.
There was a “consensus” among the climate scientists. And, apparently, liberal media pundits. Scientists predicted 13 to 16 named storms and eight to 10 hurricanes, with four to six of them major. Media reported it. With vigor.
Headlines were all over the place, and fingers crossed… hoping, I think, that that they would in fact materialize… and thus help confirm the scientists’ “man-made global warming” prediction infallibility, and to find cause to blame Bush again since it worked so well last time.
Here’s how accurate the weather scientists were:
2006 Hurricane season: None. Nada. Zip. Not one. Not even one named hurricane hit land. Not one. Damn.
And we heard pretty much NOTHING about that fact.
But this year, they say, it’s once again definitely going a massive record-breaking named hurricane season. Fer sure. Simon says! In fact, they predict it with an astounding “75 percent likelihood that this year’s Atlantic hurricane season will be more active than usual.”
Over at Global National’s web site, they’re so excited about it they even spelled the word “worse” wrong.
No time for spell-check! Batten down the hatches!
The scientific “consensus” is that there will be 13 to 17 named tropical storms, with seven to 10 becoming hurricanes. Three to five could become major hurricanes.
Of course that’s not especially massive or unusual. See, on an absolutely average year, there are 11 named storms, six becoming hurricanes, two of them major. Since there were none last year, chances are there will be some this year. That would be normal.
—Forecasters predict heavy hurricane season
—U.S. braces for busy hurricane season
—Officials predict wose than normal hurricane season [Spelling mistake unfortunate but true].
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