[AT7Saluki]

Money quote:
The storms were fueled in part by warmer sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean, according to the study. Temperatures soon fell back but in recent decades have slowly inched upwards due to climate change ...
So why is it climate change this time exactly? The lengths to which these shills will go.

[Crazieman]

It wasn’t climate change then, but it is now.

[DBrow]

Yet we have much fewer hurricanes than before “global warming”. Maybe the sea is not getting as warm as Algor thinks?

[baltimorepoet]

New England is a mostly progressive-infested swamp. It would be most appropriate if God destroyed it by hurricanes.

[cripplecreek]

Stupid question.

Of course they could happen again if the conditions are right.

[rfreedom4u]

If it happened before it can happen again.

Why doesn’t one ever hit San Fransicko?

[ConservativeInPA]

American Indians need to be held responsible. I want reparations and I want them now! Those darn redskins built fires and emitted too much carbon into the air. They have to pay. Let’s take some of that casino money and give it to deserving people and fund scientific research for alternative energy. We need to suck those casinos dry for the harm they did to the earth and the children.

[BykrBayb]

could it happen again?

You forgot to say "please."

[2nd Amendment]

I want the biggest, coldest weather ever recorded on earth to hit a global warming conference and freeze the daylights out of a bunch of Al Gore gaia clones!

[KosmicKitty]

I guess those 9 days I spent with no power following Hurricane Irene a few years ago were nothing, then. And what about Sandy?

And how about the 2+ feet of snow I have right now with temps below zero tonight? More global warming?

New England - if you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes.

[SampleMan]

If it does happen again, it will be a new phenomenon, that is clearly the result of manmade global warming. Unless the academic-goverment complex has moved on to a different scare tactic by then, in which case it will have been caused by the new culprit.

[RayChuang88]

This is not news to anyone who studied the climate of Europe between 500 and 1300 AD--thanks to surviving written records from monasteries in Europe at the time.

Because Europe was much warmer than now back then, it's likely that the Gulf Stream flow was much stronger back then--and as a result, the waters around New England were warmer, which meant any hurricane that tracked to New England back then would be quite strong in force upon landfall geographic east of Long Island.

[Capt. Tom]

The hurricanes of that period were likely category 3 storms - like Hurricane Katrina

How did they miss mentioning in this article the 1938 New England hurricane that was a category 3 event.

Us old timers remember it very well, and it is something you'll never forget.
The storm was not forecast in the Boston area like today's storms, and the public was caught totally off guard in 1938. - Tom