Remember how the media were adamant that the U.S. was due for a climate change-caused deluge of catastrophic hurricanes this year? Well, as the Al Gore effect goes, it never happened. [emphasis, links added]
Axios reported on November 23 that the 2025 hurricane season is ending without a “single” U.S. landfall for the first time in 10 years.
Of course, the liberal outlet couldn’t resist trying to drum up fears despite the catastrophic predictions from months ago going kaput:
“That’s welcome news for hurricane-prone states, but doesn’t mean future years will be equally calm — especially as climate change continues to warm the oceans, essentially creating hurricane fuel.”
Well, that “hurricane fuel” sputtered into a whole lot of nothing this year for U.S. states, further emphasizing why climate change fanatics masquerading as experts know as much about predicting hurricanes as they do about tomorrow’s weather: not much.
The latest tally for this year’s hurricane season amounted to 13 tropical storms and five hurricanes with no American landfall, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Not exactly breathtaking.
Taking a trip down the media memory lane illustrates why no one should be taking these sensationalized crystal ball climate prophecies seriously.
In August, CNN meteorologist Briana Waxman scare-mongered that “Primetime hurricane season is here, and the Atlantic is a powder keg.”
Waxman, acting like some sort of eco-seer, claimed: “There are signs tropical development will pick up in earnest over the next one to two weeks as the Atlantic is loaded with potential.”
New York Times reporter Judson Jones harped on a similar note in August, “A Fairly Quiet Hurricane Season May Be About to Ramp Up.”
Earlier in the year, Times reporters Jones, Patricia Mazzei, Christopher Flavelle, Emily Cochrane, and Jennifer Reed wielded the climate scareporn to attack President Donald Trump’s efforts to gut overbloated government:
“States and Cities Fear a Disaster Season Full of Unknowns Amid Federal Cuts.”
The agitprop concocted by the five authors was like somebody reading the script of disaster flick 2012 (2009):
States and cities along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are heading into hurricane season with an extraordinary level of uncertainty, unable to gauge how significant cuts at vital federal agencies will affect weather forecasts, emergency response and long-term recovery.
CBS News investigative reporter Mahsa Saeidi (who was an angry contestant on Trump’s reality show The Apprentice) exploited the predictions of above-average hurricane activity in July to cause homeowners to have a conniption over their finances:
“With above-average hurricane season predicted, here’s how Tri-State Area homeowners can save money now.”
Saeidi argued that, “With an above-average hurricane season in the forecast for 2025, insurance experts warn property insurance premiums will climb even higher than they already are.” Derp.
In May, CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson sounded the alarm on how “forecasters are saying [the 2025 hurricane season] could be one of the busiest in years.” Yeah, not really, John.
In July, The Washington Post even went as far as to take advantage of the catastrophe wrought by Hurricane Helene in 2024 to make end-of-the-world predictions because of climate change: “A new era of floods has arrived. America isn’t prepared.”
Does this mean that states shouldn’t invest in building disaster-ready infrastructure? Of course not.
But there’s a difference between pragmatic preparation and kowtowing to the persistent flood of climate change Armageddon inaccuracy emanating from leftist media hacks.
Top image via CBS News/YouTube screencap
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What was odd this hurricane season is that most of the storms that did become hurricanes happened out in the Atlantic and steering winds turned them north time and again as they stayed in the middle of the Atlantic. Without the satellites we would have not known about most of them. Unfortunately there was the one that originated in the Caribbean and became a level 5 hurricane slamming into Jamaica and then eastern Cuba before also heading up the Atlantic. It caused some damage along the coast due to storm surge but the hurricane itself did not make landfall in the US.
Of course the Axios article stating that the US would be hit again in the future after missing us this year is pretty much a nonsequiter. Of course the US will be hit and could see multiple landfalls in one year. That is what happens. We went for many years in a row without a single hurricane hitting our shores and then we had 10 years in a row with at least one landfall. So what?