Question for Jeremy Rifkin: If America was so effective in creating hurricanes in 2005, why the slump since then?

Jeremy Rifkin: Sorry, Mr President, homilies won't stop the hurricanes | Environment | The Guardian

[Sept. 2005] We Americans need to get out of our SUVs and learn the harsh lesson of Katrina and Rita: we are all to blame
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Katrina and Rita, then, are not just bad luck, nature's occasional surprises thrust on unsuspecting humanity. Make no mistake about it. We Americans created these monster storms.

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Will a hotter world lead to more intense storms?

2010 might be on track to be the warmest ever (according to GISS), but right now, we may be about to set a new record of tropical storms — in inactivity. Ryan Maue tracks the global accumulated activity and reports that by the end of July we might break the record low we set last year.