I'm as Good as the Pros

I just have to say it. I find tropical storm Chantal hilarious.

The global warming idiots have been crying for a year and a half now because we've had a total collapse of hurricane activity. Not a return to normal. A collapse. And it's the day before the first of August, and the season is two months old already, and the best Mother Nature can throw at us is a 40-mph storm so far north and so far out to sea it will never be a threat to anyone. I'm assuming you don't count the pathetic storm we had earlier in the season, which had nothing to do with typical tropical cyclone activity.

Forty miles per hour is a joke. We get that sometimes during ordinary squalls. Where I'm sitting right now, Andrew gave us 170+. Don't try to scare me with forty.

Did you notice that forecasters changed the hurricane estimate for this year? They went from 17 named storms to 15, I think. You know what? You can't change a long-range forecast. I realize there is a temptation to save face, but when you change a long-range forecast over a month into the period to which it applies, you're admitting you blew it. So I reject the change. Once the period begins, it's not a forecast. It's history. Forecasting fewer storms now is like forecasting that the Nazis will lose World War Two.

No, sorry. The real forecast is for 17 storms, and it was wrong, and it's going to get more wrong as the year progresses. If this were a storm-prone season, we'd know it by now. There isn't going to be a wave of hurricanes. There's a small chance a hurricane will hit the US, but you can forget the hysterical predictions of a replay of 2005.

Last year we had nine named storms, and not one hurricane hit the US. I know you'll Google and try to prove me wrong, and you'll look at the map and think Ernesto counts. Look more carefully at the dates and wind speeds before you post your comment. You'll see I'm right. And Alberto was windy, but it was never a hurricane. Hee hee. Love that global warming.

Still, we're going to be paying four bucks for a gallon of milk later this year, because the green wienies are forcing our corn into the pointless ethanol market. Japan and France won't have that problem, because they use safe, clean, cheap, abundant nuclear power. Think how different life would be if our fossil-fuel-fired plants were all nuclear. Less CO2 in the air, much cheaper electricity, more oil, coal, and gas available for other uses, lower gasoline prices, and an end to the ethanol scam which is going to starve our kids next year.

But no, let's all smoke dope and flash peace signs and wear our filthy jeans down around our knees instead.

Let me know when the Chicken Littles are right about something so I can go outside and shoot down a flying pig.