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With global warming on the rampage, 2006 was supposed to be another year of brutal, killer hurricanes. As 2006 got started, the popular and usually sober weather forecasting service Accu-Weather predicted 15 to 17 named storms and said that the United States was "staring down the barrel of a gun" this hurricane season. ABC's Jeffrey Kofman predicted, according to the Washington Times, that the storms would be so fierce this year that scientists "are now considering adding a fearsome Category 6." The mayhem would be due to global warming, as Al Gore reminded the world in his fright film An Inconvenient Truth.
The real inconvenient truth appears to be that predictions of catastrophic hurricanes driven by global warming have little basis in fact. With ...