Hurricane Idalia made landfall in Florida on Wednesday, as Hurricane Franklin threatens to stir the Atlantic.
That’s a sure sign we are about to be inundated with another tidal wave of climate hyperventilation from television news anchors and political pundits.
Simply put, there isn’t a lot of evidence that hurricanes in the Atlantic are getting more frequent or more powerful because of climate change. Or, as NOAA’s researchers explained, “it is premature to conclude with high confidence that human-caused increases in greenhouse gases have caused a change in past Atlantic basin hurricane activity that is outside the range of natural variability.”
As for the frequency of hurricanes, NOAA’s former chief scientist, Ryan Maue, charted the incidence of hurricanes worldwide. His effort revealed the number of hurricanes has gone up and down a bit over time, but there is no discernible trend other than that the last few years have ranked near the bottom with respect to the number of major hurricanes.
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