hurricanes
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Hard data, collected over decades, show no increase in the frequency or severity of hurricanes over the past century.
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Environment/Energy
Mainstream Media Abandons Journalism for Activism on Climate Change
by H. Sterling Burnett August 15, 2019For more than 20 years I’ve watched media outlets fail to accurately portray the debate surrounding climate change. Unfortunately, things are getting worse.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyScience
Contrary to Climate Alarmist Claims, Hurricane Costs Haven’t Increased, Says Study!
by H. Sterling Burnett January 4, 2019New research published in Nature Sustainability shows, normalizing for economic losses from hurricanes making landfall over time, there has been no trend in either increased or decreased economic losses from hurricanes from 1900 to 2017.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
Can Poor Families Sue John Kerry for Climate Policy Deaths?
by Paul Driessen October 8, 2018Conjectural future tolls from climate change pale compared to real energy poverty deaths now.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedScience
Cold Periods, Not Warm Periods, Host Weather Extremes
by H. Sterling Burnett January 28, 2018The No Tricks Zone has summarized several recent scientific reports examining extreme weather in different regions around the world. All have come to essentially the same conclusion: Current weather conditions are not extreme when compared to the past, and weather is more extreme during colder than warmer periods of time.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
This Year’s Atlantic Hurricane Season Has Not Been Historically Unusual
by Joseph D'Aleo November 3, 2017The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season got an early start with Arlene in April, but the most powerful storms didn’t start to hit until the last week of August, when Hurricane Harvey flooded Texas and Louisiana.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Flood Insurance Leaves Victims All Wet
by Daniel Sutter September 27, 2017The twelve year U.S. major hurricane drought came to an end with landfalls by two Category 4 storms within three weeks.
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Environment/Energy
Two Cheers For America’s Energy Infrastructure
by Bud Weinstein September 18, 2017The southern United States has just experienced two of the most severe storms of the century: Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. The economic damage wrought by these disasters may approach $150 billion.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
Technology, Sharing, and Disaster Assistance
by Daniel Sutter September 4, 2017Hurricane Harvey struck Texas last weekend with winds of 130 mph and then stalled, dumping feet of rain and causing catastrophic flooding.
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Hurricane Harvey is approaching the Texas coast and is forecast to end an almost twelve-year span since a major hurricane (categories 3, 4, and 5 on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane intensity scale) made landfall in the United States.
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Pioneering hurricane researcher William Gray, Ph.D., died on April 16, 2016 at the age of 86. Gray was a good friend of The Heartland Institute, speaking at five of our International Conferences on Climate Change and attending most others.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedMedia
Pioneering Hurricane Expert, Heroic Skeptic of Man-Caused Climate Change – Dr. William Gray, R.I.P.
by Jim Lakely April 18, 2016Bill went where the data led him, especially when it came to the frequency of hurricane activity due to man-caused, CO2-driven global warming. Point of fact: Bill said Al Gore’s filmed prediction of AGW causing more hurricanes was nonsense. Bill, not Al, was proven right.