Satan's Hurricanes

It's a good thing this little piece is clearly labeled satire at least a couple times on the page. I would have fallen for it:

Pat Robertson blames hurricanes on Satan

Noted Climatologist Pat Robertson said at a recent Intelligent Design Weather Symposium that he believes that Florida's hurricane problems are due to the devil. [...]

Personally, I think we have brought all these weather changes on ourselves due to frustrated creativity, putting up with monotonous jobs, believing in filthy lies, and looking for a saviour outside of ourselves due to laziness, but what do I know.

There are so many contributors and variables with climate change. I think we just have to get used to the idea that the surface of this planet has never been a stable place to live. I have mentioned this before, but there is another article about that devilish cosmic dust that can change a climate.

We were warned back in May that hurricane seasons were only going to get worse:

Brace for active hurricane season, meteorologists say

By John-Thor Dahlburg
Los Angeles Times

Atlantic Ocean ripe for two more decades of fostering strong storms

TAMPA, Fla. - With the onset of the 2005 hurricane season little more than two weeks away, meteorologists on Friday warned that conditions in the Atlantic Ocean again were ripe for spawning tropical storms that could slam into Florida or other parts of the Eastern U.S. or Gulf coast with potentially devastating and deadly consequences.

Last season, Florida was hit by four hurricanes in six weeks, an unprecedented succession of natural disasters in the state that was blamed for 123 deaths and more than $42 billion in property damage. Although predicting where and when storms will make landfall is impossible, forecasters attending Florida's 19th annual Governor's Hurricane Conference agreed that the Atlantic Ocean was in the throes of an active period that could last another two decades or more.

“We're in a new era now, and we're going to see a lot more major storms,” said William Gray, a professor in Colorado State University's department of atmospheric science, who issues a much-awaited yearly prediction of hurricane activity. [...]

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