Climate Milestones |
On December 1, America experienced two remarkable climate milestones. Despite the unhinged warnings of climate alarmists, 2025 is turning out to be one of the least stormy, and coldest, years on record.
Despite NOAA predictions this spring of a “more than active” hurricane season, the 2025 season has passed without a single Atlantic hurricane making landfall. That in itself is unusual. But it has been followed by record-setting cold and snow in the eastern U.S.
Of course, climate scientists are quick to say that both the lack of storms and the cold are the result of global warming. Saharan dust (fueled by global warming), coupled with large high-pressure systems, kept the tropical storms at bay through much of the hurricane season, and arctic warming drove the cold arctic air south.
For decades, we were told that global warming would create “superstorms” one after another — so much so that, according to AOC, life on earth would end on or about January 1, 2030. AOC was just repeating the extreme predictions one can hear from nearly any climate “scientist” and from politicians such as Al Gore going back to the early 1990s.
Gore seems to have made hundreds of millions of dollars from his climate-related work, and hundreds of thousands of academics, non-profit workers, reporters, and others have profited off the threat of warming as well. There is a vested interest that drives the continuation of belief in global warming, even when it is not warming.
Those who profit from climate hysteria don’t seem to care about the consequences for ordinary Americans: the enormous cost of boondoggle programs in alternative energy; the higher cost of goods, from lawnmowers to........