The Irony in William Broad's Criticism of Al Gore

Jason from the article :

Among the worst, is this one

Mr. Gore, who highlights the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and cites research suggesting that global warming will cause both storm frequency and deadliness to rise. Yet this past Atlantic season produced fewer hurricanes than forecasters predicted (five versus nine), and none that hit the United States.

The author goes on to explain the El Nino of last year, and it's roll on the hurricane season.

To that I would add that the Bermuda High, also shifted to the east .... steering what storms did form, away from the U.S. mainland.

If one looks at the whole earth .... The Cat 4 and 5 storms did come last year, they were in Australian waters. A record season.

Another thorough debunking of Broad is at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-roberts/debunking-the-nyts-slopp_b_43310.html

Basically Broad has tapped science outsiders and right wing talk show wonks, quoted them out of context, and wrapped the whole thing up in tar and feathers.

The only thing really newsworthy about it is that the NY Times chose to publish it. For shame!

That's so Fox can quote it at length, as they just did 20 min ago.