Better in their words…

SEP 15, 2026 Don Surber

Congratulations, comrades. You have defeated climate change. We know this because there have been no hurricanes so far in the Atlantic this hurricane season, for the first time in at least 60 years.

Gray News reported, “The Atlantic hurricane season is already one for the record books. It has been 103 days since the hurricane season started, and no hurricanes have formed in the Atlantic Ocean. That is a new record.

“Since the satellite era began in 1966, the latest date that the first hurricane formed in the Atlantic hurricane season was Sept. 11. Hurricane Gustav formed on Sept. 11, 2002, and Humberto formed on Sept. 11, 2013.”

It’s now been 106 days. This means the crisis has passed.

And there is more. No Atlantic hurricanes made landfall in the continental United States during the 2025 season—the first time that had happened since 2015. 

This should be a big relief to our 46th president. On September 7, 2021, the Guardian reported:

Joe Biden toured New Jersey and New York neighborhoods impacted by Hurricane Ida. Delivering remarks in Queens, the president said the dangerous flooding caused by Ida demonstrated the threat that climate change poses. “People are beginning to realize this is much, much bigger than anyone was willing to believe,” Biden said in Queens. “Even the climate skeptics are seeing that this really does matter.”

Yes, hurricanes matter. The hurricanes went away and climate change with it.

This should be a big relief as well to our not the 43rd president Al Gore. On October 30, 2012, UPI reported:

Some politicians, headed by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, warned that global warming could mean more storms like Hurricane Sandy. Gore in a statement on his Web site described the superstorm as a “disturbing sign of things to come,” The Hill reported.

“Scientists tell us that by continually dumping 90 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every single day, we are altering the environment in which all storms develop. As the oceans and atmosphere continue to warm, storms are becoming more energetic and powerful,” he said.

Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic governor of New York, which was hit hard by Sandy, also blamed global warming. At a news conference Tuesday, he said he recently told President Obama the country has a “100-year flood every two years now.”

“Anyone who says there’s not a dramatic change in weather patterns I think is denying reality,” Cuomo told reporters.

Yes dumping 90 million tons into an atmosphere of 5,150 million million tons (yes, million million) of air is enough to cause huge storms not seen for 100 years. Those storms are gone. Keep on dumping, baby.

The end of hurricanes should come as a big relief to American journalists. On October 5, 2022, Fox News reported:

Climate change was a central topic of conversation throughout on-air coverage of Hurricane Ian, with the phrase mentioned across CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and NBC more than 600 times in a one-week period. 

A review of transcripts by Fox News Digital found that CNN accounted for the largest chunk of climate change mentions, with the phrase uttered 311 times between Sept. 26 and Oct. 2. 

MSNBC was not far behind, with climate change getting mentioned in coverage of the hurricane 212 times, mostly during primetime shows. 

For their part, CBS News made note of climate change 61 times, while ABC News echoed the phrase 27 times, and NBC News 23 times. 

Thanks to years of media talking heads jabbering about the climate and warning us the end is near, climate change has collapsed like a Jim Cramer prediction of a stock. He is notoriously wrong. When he says buy, sell. When he says sell, buy. When he says the world is burning, get a winter coat.

On January 16, 2020, CNBC reported:

Microsoft is on a mission to become carbon negative in the next decade, and CNBC’s Jim Cramer thinks the ambitious plan has some teeth to it.

“I think they can do it because, remember, they are a powerful force — maybe the most powerful, especially when it comes to data centers, of almost any company on Earth,” he said in a Thursday appearance on “Fast Money Halftime Report.” “So I think they can make an impact. I think this is real. This is not greenwash.”

Now, many readers might be thinking I am mocking these men because, well, I am. They are Chicken Littles who react to an acorn falling on their head by declaring the sky is falling.

Before Donald Trump gave him a national platform on health, Bobby Kennedy Jr. was a climate change loon. In a column in the Los Angeles Times in September 2008, Kennedy attacked Sarah Palin, as was the fashion in those days. She said drill, baby, drill. He said no because oil kills snow.

He wrote:

In Virginia, the weather also has changed dramatically. Recently arrived residents in the northern suburbs, accustomed to today’s anemic winters, might find it astonishing to learn that there were once ski runs on Ballantrae Hill in McLean, with a rope tow and local ski club. Snow is so scarce today that most Virginia children probably don’t own a sled. But neighbors came to our home at Hickory Hill nearly every winter weekend to ride saucers and Flexible Flyers.

In those days, I recall my uncle, President Kennedy, standing erect as he rode a toboggan in his top coat, never faltering until he slid into the boxwood at the bottom of the hill. Once, my father, Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, brought a delegation of visiting Eskimos home from the Justice Department for lunch at our house. They spent the afternoon building a great igloo in the deep snow in our backyard. My brothers and sisters played in the structure for several weeks before it began to melt. On weekend afternoons, we commonly joined hundreds of Georgetown residents for ice skating on Washington’s C&O Canal, which these days rarely freezes enough to safely skate.

But that wasn’t all. Kennedy said climate change ruined his outing in Cape Cod.

I was water-skiing with my children in a light drizzle off Hyannis, Mass., last month when a sudden, fierce storm plunged us into a melee of towering waves, raking rain, painful hail and midday darkness broken by blinding flashes of lightning. As I hurried to get my children out of the water and back to the dock, I shouted over the roaring wind, “This is some kind of tornado.”

The fog consolidated and a waterspout hundreds of feet high rose from the white ocean and darted across its surface, landing for a moment on a moored outboard to spin it like a top, moving toward a distant shore where it briefly became a sand funnel, and then diffusing into the atmosphere as it rained down bits of beach on the harbor. That same day, two waterspouts appeared on Long Island Sound.

Those odd climatological phenomena led me to reflect on the rapidly changing weather patterns that are altering the way we live. Lightning storms and strikes have tripled just since the beginning of the decade on Cape Cod.

Shame on me. My autumnal drives with the top down among the falling leaves were ruining Bobby Kennedy’s water skiing and ice skating.

Of course, we know what happened after he declared snow was dead. A record 32 inches of snow fell in DC and Virginia just 18 months later. The embarrassment was so bad that the LA Times scrubbed the column from its online site. But it is still here.

Climate change is dead according to the rules laid out by its proponents. They said there would not be snow. There was. They said there would be lots of hurricanes. There aren’t.

Richard Feynman wrote, “First we guess it. Then we compute the consequences of the guess. Then we compare the result of the computation to nature, with experiment or experience. If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is—if it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. That is all there is to it.”

A decade later, he warned, “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists.”

Weather aside, the cult of climate change is doomed. The Bible long ago told us so. World without end, amen. (Ephesians 3:21.)

Man cannot destroy what he did not create. If the climate changes, so be it because Man will adapt.