No Significant Change

Patrick Michaels, professor of environmental studies at the University of Virginia, offered this insight last week into the alleged relationship between hurricanes and global warming: "[T]ake a look at data for the Atlantic basin for the last 50 years, and you'll find that only ten percent of the variation in hurricane strength and frequency from year to year is related to sea-surface temperature. In other words, 90 percent of the changes in hurricanes...is due to factors other than sea-surface temperatures... [Though] the world's surface temperature has gone up over the last few decades, not as much as a lot of computer models forecast, but it's gone up...there has been no statistically significant change whatsoever in the number of global tropical cyclones."

---The Federalist