Hurricanes Will Be Bad This Year...Or Not

Last year, NOAA (The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) predicted an above average year for hurricanes. It didn't happen. Earlier this year, they made the same prediction for this year. It hasn't happened yet. Today, NOAA announced that it will be an above average season but not as bad as they thought it was going to be. These guys can't predict what the weather is going to be like from June to October, but we're expected to believe that they can predict what climate change will do to the weather 100 years from now.

A new study in the Aug. 2 issue of the British science journal Nature found that the solid particles suspended in the atmosphere (called ÒaerosolsÓ) that make up Òbrown cloudsÓ may actually contribute to warmer temperatures Ñ precisely the opposite effect claimed by global warming alarmists. So does this mean global climate change will be worse than expected or better? The fact is no one knows because the underlying data is so bad.

The fact is nobody knows what is going to happen, so let's take steps that have nothing to do with global warming.

1) We know that increased pollution in the air causes asthma and allergies and has other negative effects on health. Clean up emissions so they don't affect our health.

2) Terrorist groups get funding from OPEC nations in the Middle East. You want to stop the terrorists, stop their funding. You want to stop funding them, reduce our need for foreign oil.

3) There are people starving all over the world. Biotechnology can create plants that will be drought resistant. Let them do so.

My point is climate change is a mystery. If we take care of the related issues that we know about, climate change will take care of itself.