No one has that data Rayman. It doesn’t exist. Climate Change is a convenient moniker that has been applied after years of other scare tactics didn’t work. In the 80s, we were “on the verge” of plunging into a new ice age, in the 90s and 2000s Global Warming (and more importantly, MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING) was all the…

Most of that can simply be a reflection of better record-keeping and more-sensitive measurement. There effectively is no “trend” until 2000, and if the argument is that storms are a symptom of climate change, its pretending that its a far more rapid and novel effect than previously argued.

The strong consensus among scientists regarding the historical data you are showing is that it is flawed due to advances in methodology and improvement in equipment. We are now are now more likely to detect and evaluate powerful storms than in the past. Even the NOAA article sited in this article addresses the fact…

Kinja tends to have a delay.

What utter rubbish. The number of hurricanes and the total energy involved has been trending downward for several years. We went 4300 days without a Cat 4 or Cat 5 hurricane making landfall.

Why’s this on lifehacker ... can you send it to jezebel ... I mean thanks, but I came here to read about bluetooth speakers ‘n shit.

this is the real question. I hope another tech blog pops up that actually sticks to posting tech stuff and gizmodo dies.

Because this place went to shit 10 years ago.

Why is this political stuff getting posted to a gadget blog?

Are we going to be seeing even more political stuff on gizmodo than before, now that Gawker is dead?

Does gawker media ever get tired of sucking hillarys wrinkled ass?

Related question: Any tips on how to train a dog out of licking. Ours is like a compulsive licker, but no so much faces, but legs and feet. My wife hates it (I don’t really care unless he’s under foot in the kitchen when I’m trying to cook). I’d love to know what to do to make him knock it off. The tough part is that…