
For years, the fossil fuel industry has lobbied the news media to accord the same weight to a handful of global warming skeptics that it accords the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – more than 2,000 scientists from 100 countries reporting to the United Nations.
Today, with the science having become even more robust – and the impacts as visible as the megastorm that covered much of the Gulf of Mexico – the press bears a share of the guilt for our self-induced destruction with the oil and coal industries
Hurricane Katrina’s real name – The New York Times
It has now been eight years since the US was hit by a major hurricane, the longest such period since 1869. Obama’s presidency has seen the fewest hurricane landfalls of any presidency in US history.

HURDAT Re-analysis Chronological List of All Hurricanes
Gelbspan became hysterical in 2005 over hurricanes hitting the US, yet the presidencies of William Howard Taft, Grover Cleveland and Rutherford B. Hayes had a higher hurricane frequency than GWB.
It is remarkable how scientists can go into hysterics and start throwing around mindless paranoid political accusations – over things they understand nothing about.