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Discover why hurricane activity is near a 30-year low despite claims of a highly active era for Atlantic hurricanes.

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You wouldn't think he'd come around for a second round after this post...but, I guess he wanted to dig the hole even deeper. Here's his response:

Mooney writes: “In order to lampoon the view that hurricanes are worsening, [Fumento] relies on this year’s weather in just one hurricane basin of the world–it was a quiet hurricane season in the Atlantic (although busy in the Pacific).” From my article, paragraph three: “This year ended quietly with the fewest storms since 1997, and for the first time since 2006 no hurricanes even made landfall in the United States according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Indeed, hurricane activity is near a 30-year low.” Chris, you’re just plain dishonest.

Here is his article. Try as I might, I don't find anything at all like that in paragraph 3. I find bits and pieces of it elsewhere, but nowhere the striking claim that ...

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