Why I Love To Blog -- Reason #34 -- October 17, 2016

Back in September, I started suggesting that NOAA was "hyping" the posted wind speeds and/or the definition of a hurricane with the reporting of tropical storm Hermione, which was later described as the first hurricane to hit the US mainland in eleven years.

Today, over at Investor's Business Daily: warming alarmists redefine what a hurricane is so we'll have more of them. I haven't read it yet; let's see what it says.

After Matthew dumped more than 17 inches of rain in North Carolina, science editor Andrew Freedman wrote in Mashable that "it's time to face the fact that the way we measure hurricanes and communicate their likely impacts is seriously flawed. "

"We need a new hurricane intensity metric," he said, "that more accurately reflects a storm's potential to cause death and destruction well inland."

The current measure is the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale, which, according to the National Hurricane Center, provides "a 1 to 5 rating based on a hurricane's sustained wind speed."

But if the intensity of a storm is redefined by using other criteria, such as rainfall and storm surge flooding, the game changes.

"So with a new metric, warmists can declare every storm 'unprecedented' and a new 'record,' " says Marc Morano, publisher of Climate Depot and producer of "Climate Hustle," a movie that "takes a skeptical look at global warming."

"This is all part of a financial scheme," says Morano. "If every bad weather event can have new metrics that make them unprecedented and a record, then they will declare it fossil-fuel-'poisoned weather.'

Warmist attorneys general will use any storm now to get money from energy companies claiming that their company made tornadoes, hurricanes, floods and droughts worse.

They will use any bad weather event to shake down energy companies. That is why the extreme storm meme is so important."

As far as I'm concerned, for investors this is an open-book test.

By the way, every source now suggests this may be one of the coldest winters ever. I haven't seen any update on the woolly caterpillar yet.

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Exxon Mobil

Time to re-incorporate overseas. It's an international company. 

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Name Changes

For the record, The WSJ now refers to Pocahontas as Queen Elizabeth. 

Folks should be fearful she could soon be referred to as SecTreas. But after seeing wikileaks, the insiders choice has got to be a past Goldman Sachs CEO, perhaps one with a resume unlike any before him, perhaps Jon Corzine.