NOAA Study Suggests Global Warming Not Increasing Hurricanes

After Hurricane Katrina, lots of people were quick to tell us how global warming was to blame for an increased frequency and intensity of hurricanes. Now, a recent study from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) suggests that this isn't the case. Read the title link for the full story.

This is the sort of thing that frustrates me about globing warming alarmism. Otherwise rational people jump to unsubstantiated beliefs much in the same way primitive peoples used to blame bad things that they didn't understand on evil spirits. We have enough proven and fully understood environmental problems that we can work on without needing to invent a climatic bogey man. Lets cut down on water pollution, slow down population growth, protect some natural habitat and work on things that we can make a definite impact on. When science comes up with a climate model that actually works, is accurate and survives a couple of decades of peer reviews, we can use it to figure out what negative impact mankind is having on global climate and what we can do to minimize it. In the meantime, let's make quantifiable and measurable progress towards making the world a better place without relying on guesswork and ineffective knee jerk legislation that is far more likely to harm our economy than it is to save the planet.