Newspaper headlines sometimes employ such delicious phraseology that additional commentary seems almost unnecessary.  

When such headlines arrive via The New York Times, it only amplifies the delight.  

In this particular case, the Times headline read, “Where Are All the Atlantic Hurricanes?  Why This Year Is So Quiet,” with the subheadline “There Hasn’t Been a Single One Yet.”  

According to its report, this year’s Atlantic Ocean hurricane season just passed its traditional peak without the occurrence of a single hurricane.  Five tropical storms formed earlier this year, the story strains to add, but nothing of hurricane strength.  Not since 1941, before Pearl Harbor, has the Atlantic gone that late into hurricane season without one.  

Well, well, well…  

For anyone who recalls Hurricane Katrina in 2005, that offers a damning acknowledgement atop the accumulating litany of failed climate change alarmist predictions.  

In Katrina’s aftermath, the climate-industrial complex exploited the misery for its own advance, claiming that anthropogenic (i.e., man-caused) global warming was a causal factor, and that we should expect more frequent hurricanes of greater intensity in upcoming years.  Always leading that charge, the disgraced Al Gore lectured that “the average hurricane will continue to get stronger because of global warming,” casting Katrina as confirmation of what he had long foretold.  

To their collective embarrassment, however, a funny thing occurred in the immediately ensuing years.  

Instead of more frequent hurricanes or greater intensity, the United States experienced the longest stretch in recorded history without a major-category hurricane.  That stretch conspicuously reached a full decade in 2015, and ultimately continued all the way until Hurricane Harvey a dozen years after Katrina in 2017.  

Then in 2022, we experienced yet another embarrassing milestone for climate alarmists.  For the first time in eight decades – once again preceding Pearl Harbor or Queen Elizabeth II’s ascent to the British throne – the Atlantic Ocean didn’t even experience a named storm – whether hurricane or mere tropical storm – during its summer season.  

Fast-forward to 2026, at precisely the moment on the calendar when Atlantic hurricane activity typically reaches its apex, and the Times finds itself scratching its proverbial head wondering where all the hurricanes have gone.  

Intelligent, honest people now recognize the obvious pattern.  

Back in June 1989 – more than two adult lifetimes ago and before the Berlin Wall fell – the ever-reliable United Nations warned of doom within ten years if we didn’t decisively act:  

A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.  Coastal flooding and crop failures will create an exodus of “eco-refugees,” threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environmental Program, or UNEP.  He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.  (Emphasis added.)  

The year 2000 came and went without any nation wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels.  Nevertheless, that same year the British Independent extended the stubborn alarmist theme by announcing that, “Snowfalls Are Now Just a Thing of the Past.”  It quoted what it labeled a climate researcher who predicted that British children soon “just aren’t going to know what snow is.”  Across the Atlantic twenty-five years later, however, the United States experienced its coldest winter in over a decade, another reminder of the hazards of breathless prophesy.  

If you assumed that climate alarmism couldn’t get any more bizarre than that, go back a bit further in history to something even more shameless.  

Namely, before global warming became the fashionable apocalyptic crusade, we were subjected to solemn predictions of catastrophic global cooling.  The ultimately disgraced Paul Ehrlich achieved 1970s fame by predicting mass starvation and resource depletion due to a cooling climate.  The fact that he remained a godfather of sorts to the climate alarmism movement by shamelessly shifting to global warming predictions offers one of its most damning indictments.  

None of this means that Earth’s climate isn’t changing.  After all, the Ice Age came and went without any automobiles, power plants or air conditioners as a causal factor.  

A constantly-changing climate, however, doesn’t excuse self-interested alarmists and their deceptive (and well-funded) efforts to affect public policy for the worse.  

When hurricanes proliferate, they conveniently attribute blame to anthropogenic climate change.  When hurricanes vanish, however, they lecture us not to confuse weather with climate.  

Although decades of constantly failing doomsday predictions demonstrate that the climate-industrial complex won’t police itself, perhaps if more people recognize the folly and stop listening, they’ll finally be shamed into greater humility and scientific objectivity.