President Bill Clinton, please tell me you have got to be kidding?

Russ Steele

Former President Bill Clinton spoke in New York on the first day of the annual Clinton Global Initiative. A conference that brings together leaders from government, business and philanthropy, who make financial commitments aimed at tackling poverty and disease around the world.

The former President had this to say about climate change according to a Yahoo Report. 

He said the gulf region had been hit by "everything but a plague of locusts" and said climate change had made events like hurricanes and flooding more frequent and deadly.

It is obvious that our former President is not keeping up with his science lessons.  The most common method of measuring overall hurricane significance is in terms of the Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE).  ACE combines wind speed and duration of cyclones to determine accumulated energy.

In the figure below, Ryan Maue, Florida State University, has stacked the ACE for the Norther Atlantic, Eastern Pacific and Western Pacific + Northern Indian Ocean and as you can see the ACE has been declining in recent years as you can see from the numbers. (Click for a larger impage.)


So, President Clinton, where did you get the idea that hurricanes were more frequent and deadly?  Did you just make it up like Al Gore does, or did you call Al and get his fake numbers?