"American climate science is quite clear: Superstorm Sandy was not a freak occurrence, a "once in a generation event" as the US media has misleadingly labelled it. It is the forerunner of many such events,"

What, like Hurricane Carol, Hurricane Donna, Hurricane Edna, Ione, Helene, Gracie, Audrey? Have you ever heard of these? Are you aware that they are the names of hurricanes which made landfall in the US between 1954 and 1960, in the second-worst decade for recorded hurricanes ever -- and long before any AGW nonsense reared its head? Do you know that, unlike these, Sandy was already downgraded to a storm before it made landfall?

Here are the official US figures for hurricane strikes: read them and ask yourself: 'Why have people lied to me?'.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml

AGW hysteria is clearly moving into a new phase, where it's not enought to just be wilfully ignorant about science -- you have to be wilfully ignorant about history as well.

And this might also be of interest:

http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2012/11/there-will-be-fewer-sandy-like-storms-in-the-future/

<<"American climate science is quite clear: Superstorm Sandy was not a freak occurrence”…What, like Hurricane Carol, Hurricane Donna, Hurricane Edna, Ione, Helene, Gracie, Audrey…[which] made landfall in the US between 1954 and 1960, in the second-worst decade for recorded hurricanes ever -- and long before any AGW>>

You can’t say things like that, Johj.

Haven’t you heard (the hype) –hurricane Sandy was the biggest and baddest and worstest, EVER.

It will only be bettered, sorry, WORSTED, by the next one to come along.

There will not be another one like Sandy again. Probably correct, they will be bigger and bigger.

The Mayan Prophesy predicted this you know. We're doomed. I'm going out to expend some serious carbon while I can.

Julian,

Others have already wondered why you haven't been looking at the history of these storms, and the relative drought of them in the past few years. Your piece here is extraordinarily one-sided.

See my post this morning, on the same subject: www.donaitkin.com