Bjorn Lomborg Interview; UPDATE

Story at Sun-Sentinel regarding quiet hurricane season. (Hat Tip AccuWeather Global Warming Blog)

Additional Update: This 2002 article from Nexus
by Dr David E. Wojick again shows how GW panic groups ignore data not convenient to their theories.

At TCS Daily, one of THE very best websites out there, period, Lomborg talks about global warming and allocation of resources (While there, take note of the related stories in the sidebar).

The Global Warming debate has reached such shrill levels it is hard to believe any progress will be made in finding the actual causes and how or IF man can control it.

Some of the more spectacular failures of the doomsayers include the predictions of a calamitous hurricane season this year, caused by ocean warming. Of course, what the chicken littles failed to understand is that OF COURSE WARM WATER CAUSE BIGGER HURRICANES. But to make the leap of logic that an overall temperature rise of .06 F alone has caused a long term warming trend in the Gulf of Mexico, in particular since overall temperature averages in the Southeast United States have DROPPED is fundamentally flawed.

(Just a cool Graphic, follow links for relevant charts)

Also, this excellent animation and charts shows that for August 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico the surface temperatures of the waters in the Gulf (which can swing wildly, relatively speaking) started an August warming trend towards the beginning of the month (typically the hottest month along the gulf, as anyone who has or does live there will tell you) and peaked along the area most affected by Katrina right as it neared landfall. Got that? The gulf had not been sitting there boiling and waiting for a hurricane to turn into a monster. In Fact, check the charts for a year at the above link and you will see that, as a trend, Gulf surface temperatures rose and fell with the seasons. Amazing.

Not that it matters, because when temperatures cool, the GW shamans say it is due to (you guessed it) WARMING, in fact, whatever happens climatologically speaking is caused by global warming; it's just that those of us who like to see hard evidence are blind anti-science nuts. This is very important to grasp kids: if you prefer the scientific method over wild predictions of future calamity based on little or no hard facts or computer modeling that make the most radical assumptions in their design, you are now an anti-science dullard.