[DustyMoment]

They must really think the public stupid if they get the hurricane season wrong 2 years in a row, yet expect us to believe their doom and gloom predictions for the earth’s climate change over the next 200 years.

I understand your point but, based on the wildfire spread of the global warming hoax, they're just one more source cashing in on the fraud. I would also remind people that they also blew the hurricane forecast for 2004 when FloriDUH saw 4 hurricanes in about a 6 - 8 week period and the whole season chewed up every name they had established for the year and went into the Greek alphabet. The problem is larger than we think because most people only look at the last two years.

By the same token, climatologists have an overall track record that doesn't begin to approach the accuracy of Poor Richard's Almanac. Anyone who thinks that people who can't look out the window and tell if it is raining can tell us what the weather will do in 100 or 200 years deserves the OwlGore tax that the UN wants to impose on us.

[FreedomOfExpression]

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that they also blew the hurricane forecast for 2004 when FloriDUH saw 4 hurricanes in about a 6 - 8 week period and the whole season chewed up every name they had established for the year and went into the Greek alphabet.

Could that be a result of this? (from the article):
"For one thing, NOAA has changed the criteria for naming storms - most recently in 2002, when subtropical storms were named for the first time."

That should obviously increase the number of named storms per year, possibly explaining the "higher than normal" forecast for the last few years, not because of increased activity, but because of changed criteria. As for the motive behind this... you are almost certainly correct in your "cashing in" assessment.