‘These really are shameful times’

Andrew Bolt:
‘The Australian Greens say Tropical Cyclone Yasi is a ”tragedy of climate change”… Greens deputy leader Christine Milne says the cyclone is another example of why it is important to cut carbon pollution.
And remember that this is in the face of evidence that:
– Global temperatures last month were at the long term average, or just below, (thanks to the La Nina).
– La Nina events have historically brought more cyclones and rain to Australia, and we’re due for more cyclones than we’ve mistakenly thought normal..
– The Bureau of Meteorology has noted a decline in the frequency of Australian cyclones, not an increase.
– There is no increase in land-falling cyclones in Australia.
– Queensland has had worse and deadlier cyclones and floods a century ago, before any possibility of man-made warning.
– Queensland had two huge cyclones in a single year – in 1918 – each killing more people than have died in all Queensland’s natural disasters this year, despite our much great population.
– Total hurricane and cyclone energy around the world has decreased over the past few years.- There has been no statistically significant warming of the oceans since 2003, according to a new study.
– We have had costlier natural disasters than the recent floods (as measure by insurable losses), including the destruction of Darwin by Cyclone Tracy (1974) and the Newcastle earthquake (1989).
– Even the warmist Bureau of Meteorology concedes there is no known link between global warming and cyclone frequency, adding: “Since that time [IPCC report 2001] there has been a growing number of studies that indicate a consistent signal of fewer tropical cyclones globally in a warmer climate.” ‘