Home Depot profits down to ‘due to the lack of storms’ – ‘Benign hurricane season drove down demand’ – CEO Ted Deck said primary driver of lower sales was lack of hurricanes

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/home-depot-hd-q3-2025-earnings-.html CNBC: Home Depot on Tuesday cut its full-year profit forecast and missed Wall Street’s earnings expectations for the third straight quarter as it saw weaker home improvement demand, tepid consumer spending, and lower-than-usual storm activity. … CEO Ted Decker said on an earnings call that the primary driver of that deceleration was the lack […]

STEVE MILLOY: The Hurricane Season That Still Isn’t

https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/19/opinion-the-hurricane-season-that-still-isnt-steve-milloy/ By Steve Milloy Cynical, disaster-seeking climate change hysterics have been pushing, for decades now, a narrative that global warming, especially warming ocean temperatures, increase the risk of hurricane activity. Every year, they seem to be eagerly awaiting devastating superstorms to prove them right. And the 2025 hurricane season looked ripe. In May, the National […]

The Great Hurricane Drought of 2025

https://irrationalfear.substack.com/p/the-great-hurricane-drought-of-2025 Exposing the Gap Between “Supercharged” Predictions and a Hurricane Season That Never Peaked DR. MATTHEW WIELICKI I’ve been monitoring the Colorado State University (CSU) real-time hurricane dashboard for weeks now: tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Realtime/index.php?loc=northatlantic. Scroll down to the storm-by-storm table and the Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) plot; they tell a story that’s far from the “supercharged” nightmare […]

Climate Fact-Check August 2025: Debunking the latest unscientific fearmongering on hurricanes, wildfires, the Great Barrier Reef, ‘heat stress’, doomed bananas, & the alleged invasion of fire ants!

Climate Fact-Check August 2025 by: The Competitive Enterprise Institute, The Heartland Institute, the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and the International Climate Science Coalition, and Truth in Energy and Climate. Editor’s note: This summary serves as a fact check on the top false claims made about climate change by the […]

Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. mocks ‘Weather Attribution Alchemy’ – Ponders ‘Extreme Non-Event Attribution’ or ‘How climate change just saved us from a trillion-dollar disaster!’ – Asks about ‘the-extreme-event-that-didn’t-just-happen’

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/extreme-non-event-attribution By ROGER PIELKE JR. Hurricane Erin was a massive Category 5 storm that shot the gap between the U.S. east coast and Bermuda before heading out to sea. Imagine an alternative universe, where Erin’s track was just a bit further west — tracking over Miami, along the U.S. east coast, and then making a […]

Flashback 1992: EPIC FAIL – The late climatologist Steve Schneider predicted by 2002 or 2012, ‘we will prove a causal effect between global warming & natural disasters’

33 years ago today: Early climate hoaxer, the late Steve Schneider, predicted we’d know in 10 to 20 years whether emissions caused/worsened hurricanes. After 33 years, there has been no increase in hurricane frequency or strengthen and, in fact, no aspect of hurricane activity… pic.twitter.com/qQtbbqckQr — Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) August 26, 2025 Steve Schnider August […]

Climate Change Is Not to Blame for the Rising Costs of Natural Disasters, NBC

Climate Change Is Not to Blame for the Rising Costs of Natural Disasters, NBC By H. Sterling Burnett An NBC New story reports on the rising costs of natural disasters, citing an analysis from one of the world’s largest re-insurers, Munich Re. For the most part, the story is accurate, detailing the high costs of […]

‘A weird lack of Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclones so far in 2025 It’s been one of the least active years on record for tropical cyclones in the Northern Hemisphere’

The graph shows Northern Hemisphere ACE for each year from January 1 through July 21, starting with 1971, the first year of reliable data from the Northeast Pacific. The ACE to date of 45.5 is only about 41% of the climatological average for the period 1991-2020. The only years with lower ACE at this point were 1977 (23.0) and 1998 (39.1). …

The cumulative longevity of each named storm (or “named storm days” in the table below) is only about two-thirds of average. As for hurricane-strength systems — which are called typhoons in the Northwest Pacific and severe cyclonic storms in the North Indian Ocean — their cumulative longevity is a mere 27% of average.