Hurricane Joaquin? Blame It On Climate Change!

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/03/hurricane-joaquin-another-word-for-climate-change.html

Another cretinous report from the Daily Beast. It would be difficult for them to have got more wrong:

As Hurricane Joaquin devastates the Bahamas and feints toward the east coast of the United States, and as American communities hunker down for superstorm potential, the connection to climate change is already clear. What’s more, a new study shows there’s a lot more of this sort of thing to come.

Already, Joaquin is being compared in advance to Superstorm Sandy, which devastated so much of the Atlantic shore, including New York City, only three years ago.

Such frightening anticipation may—or may not—turn out to be justified in this case. Chances are growing that Joaquin will swing north and out to sea, but predictions keep changing and hurricanes don’t always cooperate with prognosticators.

Taking every precaution to prepare for heavy rainfall and flooding, the governors of Virginia…

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