Climate-change zealots are wrong about hurricanes

Surely hurricanes and other storms are getting worse? Saint Albert of Gore said so 20 years ago, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and the poster for his famous movie, An Inconvenient Truth, showed a spinning hurricane (that just happened to be spinning the wrong way). NASA says, to this day, that “Hurricanes Will Become Stronger and More Intense.” Google’s AI agrees when I ask it: “Yes, scientists expect hurricanes to become more intense, destructive and wetter in the future due to climate change.”

Four decades into the era of man-made global warming and we are still waiting for this confident assertion to come true.

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