PUT ANOTHER PIN IN IT.

Hurricanes are part of the great heat cycle, moving warmer water and air from the equator to the poles.  The following excerpt comes from Heritage's Daily Signal, and the policy shop caveat applies.

Every year at this time, when hurricane season rolls around, corporate media start pumping out headlines linking the severity of hurricanes to climate change. But is there causation or correlation? And if changes in the climate do affect hurricanes, is it in the way climate activists claim?

Climatologist David Legates says, “[If] we have colder periods, we will get more hurricane activity. If we have warmer periods, the hurricane activity tends to drop off.”

Legates serves as a visiting fellow for the Science Advisory Committee in the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment at The Heritage Foundation, and is a professor emeritus at the University of Delaware. He is also the co-author of the book “Climate and Energy: The Case for Realism.”

We put a pin in one such prediction earlier this month, and followed up with the first set of confounding factors.  There's a lot more at the essay, including a number of charts suggesting all sorts of variability in hurricane activity, and a claim that the most active recorded hurricane seasons occurred during the Little Ice Age.  (Was it a late season hurricane that claimed Monitor?)