Another Presidential First -- First President In 122 Years To Have Not Seen A Major Hurricane Strike The US -- August 24, 2015

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"President Obama is the first president in 122 years, since Benjamin Harrison was in office, who has not seen a major hurricane strike the U.S. during his time in office. In a statement on its website, NOAA expressed concern that Americans might suffer from “hurricane amnesia.” The second longest stretch between major hurricanes hitting the continenatla U.S. was the eight years between 1860 and 1869, NOAA records show."

The CSMonitor answers the question why so few hurricanes this past decade:

Unusually high atmospheric wind shear caused by a historic El Nino event in the Pacific, cooler than normal Atlantic water temperatures, air pressure differentials between the Atlantic and the East Pacific, and even dust from Saharan sand storms all play into dynamics that affect the easterly African weather waves that sometimes curl into Atlantic hurricanes.

Warmists had predicted more extreme weather due to global warming. In fact, they went from global warming to climate change to extreme weather. And now that extreme weather is ... oh, not so extreme ... they are looking for a reason ... that fits the story line. The one explanation I've seen "everywhere" is the fact that the Atlantic Ocean is actually cooler.

"Everyone" knows warm oceans provide the energy for hurricanes; we learned that from Walter Cronkite.

But politically correct writers and warmists come up with as many reasons as possible, including Saharan dust storms, to bury the real reason, "cooler than normal Atlantic water temperatures."

See if you can find that phrase in the list of reasons the CSMonitor lists to explain the "drought" of hurricanes for the past decade, the decade in which there has been no evidence of global warming despite the fact that atmospheric CO2 has risen .... OMG ... from 398 to 402 parts per million, a delta that is so small it's hard to convert to a percentage -- 400 / 1,000, 000 = 0.04 percent. That's not four percent. That's four-hundreds of one percent. A delta of 4/400 per million would be ... well, really, really small. Immeasurable. Except by warmists who can see really tiny things.