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Steve Milloy
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Cynical, disaster-oriented climate hysterists have been pushing the narrative for decades that global warming, particularly warming ocean temperatures, increases the risk of hurricane activity. Every year they seem to wait eagerly for devastating superstorms to prove them right. And the 2025 hurricane season seemed ripe.
In May, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast an above-average active season (running from June 1 to December 1). The Washington Post exaggerated this prediction, saying, “The forecast underscored the dangers of a historically active stretch of Atlantic hurricane activity.”
And indeed, the stage was set for the perfect storm to have catastrophic effects on the southeastern United States: NOAA provided hurricanes that fueled warm ocean waters; The South had just endured a record year of net domestic migration, raising the potential human cost. and climate change-denying President Trump had scaled back the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which alarmists claimed would significantly hamper disaster relief. (RELATED: Whatever Happened to Climate Change, the Existential Threat of Our Time?)
There was also an ominous anniversary. In late summer 2025, it would have been exactly 20 years since the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. “NOAA is now more prepared than ever for what hurricane season could bring,” NOAA Acting Administrator Laura Grimm said at a forecast announcement event in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, on the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.”
Yes, the narrative of a catastrophic 2025 hurricane season fueled by human-caused climate change has written itself; The alarmists just had to wait.
The months of June and July passed quickly and quietly without a single landing in the USA. August showed promise as Hurricane Erin swelled to a threatening Category 5 hurricane. The alarmists manned their stations and the media began sowing panic about this climate-related superstorm. Unfortunately for those responsible for the disaster, the storm never came within 200 miles of the U.S. coast.
At the beginning of September, the Atlantic was still in a standstill. On September 10, the day in the middle of the hurricane peak window, there were no hurricane landfalls and no storms on the horizon. No devastating storm has yet struck and time is running out for the season. There are still six weeks left. Sure, anything could happen during this time. But nothing has happened yet.
Instead of simply admitting their mistake, the Washington Post’s climate activists doubled down this week, claiming that the lack of storms is actually evidence of human-caused climate change. This mindset of never admitting mistakes underscores the climate movement’s willingness to twist any outcome as evidence of its radical worldview. They always say: “Heads I win, tails you lose.”
Putting ideology aside and following actual scientific principles, the picture is crystal clear: there is no connection between human-caused emissions and increased hurricane frequency, intensity, or other aspects of hurricanes. According to NOAA, all hurricane activity remains within the limits of natural variability.
Tracking hurricanes shows that trends have not changed, even though human-caused emissions have steadily increased over the same period. And while proponents of climate change narratives like to highlight the increased costs of storm damage, they ignore the fact that population growth in coastal regions is the primary driver of this phenomenon—not increased storm intensity. This is so obvious. Even the Washington Post had to admit this.
The superstorms that didn’t happen are a stark reminder: the climate agenda thrives on fear. Rain or shine, the alarmists’ forecast for our planet’s demise remained the same. In doing so, they show what they can do – by prioritizing the political agenda over evidence. It is time to separate rhetoric from reality and free ourselves from climate hysteria.
Steve Milloy is a biostatistician and lawyer. He posts on X at @JunkScience.
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