Hurricanes and Global Warming

Remember Hurricane Katrina? Remember the dire predictions of extreme storms that were going to batter the U.S.? And all because of global warming...

Well, the Florida State University climatological division stated that 2007 will most likely rank as a historically inactive year for the Northern Hemisphre. Since Hurricane Katrina, there have only been ten Atlantic hurricanes. Yet the predictions from the global warming folks was that we would have Hurricane Katrinas year after year after year because of the rise in the earth's temperature. Yet, the hurricane seasons have been average, at best.

What is amazing is the fact so many people are willing to believe that any major event or unusual event is caused by global warming. Big hurricane? Global warming. Drought? Global warming. Flooding? Global warming. Declining dollar? Global warming. Lost keys? Global warming. Delayed technology rollout? Global warming.

But, and this might be a shock to some, the world has had flooding and drought, hurricanes and tornadoes, earthquakes and tsunamis before man even walked upon the Earth. The world's climate is far too complex for man to understand. We cannot control the climate and we cannot control hurricanes and we cannot control weather patterns.

And that's why so many people want to believe in this global warmining phenomenon...they want to at least feel like they have some control over what is going on around them. Even if they're responsible for bad things occuring, at least they had some part in it. We want to feel as though we can make a change if we would all do things differently. But that's not the case. Hurricanes are going to occur whether you are carbon-neutral or not. Droughts and floods are a way of life. We cannot control these aspects of nature and that is what scares people.

I don't see it changing. People are going to make dire predictions that either come true and their hailed a genius or don't come true and they pretend they never made the prediction. But all they are doing is making guesses at what might occur. The fact is that the Eart is way too complex to try to predict what is around the corner.