Of all the inane barking surrounding the Hurricane blame game, I find Robert Kennedy Jr.’s the most insane. Before the extent of the tragedy was even known, Kennedy had already penned a vicious attack against Mississippi Governor Barbour and, by extension, President Bush. In part:

Well, the science is clear. This month, a study published in the journal Nature by a renowned MIT climatologist linked the increasing prevalence of destructive hurricanes to human-induced global warming.

Now we are all learning what it’s like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence which Barbour and his cronies have encouraged.

Indeed? If the “science is clear” that global warming is causing an “increasing prevalence of destructive hurricanes” then there should be statistical evidence. Let’s take a look at how many hurricanes there have been since we started keeping records (courtesy of the National Weather Service’s Hurricane Center):

Gee, it kinda looks like there were more hurricanes in the first part of the 20^th century. Does that mean that man isn’t continuing to screw up the weather with our big, bad SUVs?

Oh wait, he said “destructive” hurricanes were getting more common. OK, let’s take a look at how many category 1, category 2 and category 3 hurricanes there were during the same period:

Yes, these “baby hurricanes” seem to be declining. Now how about the really serious ones?

Hmmm, call me graphically-challenged, but I don’t really see an upward curve to support Kennedy’s hypothesis clear “science”.

Oh, and for all of you nitpickers that notice that the National Hurricane Center calls anything from a category 3 on up a “major hurricane”, here’s that graph:

The only “whirlwind” surrounding fossil fuels comes from the left’s incessant mouthings of absolute nonsense. Case closed.