Politicization of storms and science is a mistake

Power Line:

The coincidence of hurricanes Harvey and Irma striking in rapid succession has naturally caused global warming hysterics to react hysterically. As usual, Ken Haapala of the Science and Environmental Policy Project contributes a dose of common sense and scientific knowledge:

Last week’s TWTW discussed Hurricane Harvey, which ended a lull of almost 12 years without a major hurricane making landfall in the US. A major Hurricane being defined as category 3, or above, on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale used by the National Hurricane Center, with sustained wind of 111-129 mph (96-112 knots, 178-208 km/h) or greater. The lull in hurricanes hitting the US was simply good fortune and had nothing to do with increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide.

The twelve-year lull between category 3 hurricanes was the longest in the historical record, which goes back several hundred years. We have been living in a time of unusually little hurricane activity, which, as Haapala says, is merely lucky.
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What the climate hysterics never do is offer any quantitative analysis to substantiate their claims of increased hurricane activity. They don’t, because they can’t.
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I suspect they politicize storms because they think it will help them achieve their objective of greater regulation of energy which would give them greater control over the economy to impose control freak policies.  Venezuela is a good example of why those policies will not work and never have.