The year 2025 has seen a very quiet hurricane season thus far, which has led climate alarmists to say told you so, look at all the hurricanes. Like Euronews.green, with its “Hurricane Erin’s rapid intensification and what it means for Europe’s weather/ The storm’s rapid intensification has been linked to unusually warm ocean waters made more likely by climate change.” One might instead have pondered what “Hurricane Erin became the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2025 season on Friday, 15 August” meant for Europe’s weather. But no. We’re doing attribution science here not the observational kind.

The Associated Press took a similar tack, trying to sow panic over a mid-strength hurricane out at sea that was “unlikely to make landfall along the East Coast before turning farther out to sea” but might cause waves. After a lot of nothing, except some idiots swimming in stormy seas and needing and getting rescue, it nevertheless blared:

“Climate scientists say Atlantic hurricanes are now much more likely to rapidly intensify into powerful and catastrophic storms fueled by warmer oceans.”

The evidence says otherwise. But who needs that rubbish?

Even the Epoch Times was peddling it. After saying there was a fierce wind somewhere way offshore and it wasn’t expected to hit land, but might cause waves and rain, it wrote:

“Erin is the fifth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 through Nov. 30. Tropical Storm Chantal made the first U.S. landfall of the season and brought high winds and deadly flooding to the Carolinas during the Independence Day holiday weekend. The 2025 hurricane season is forecast to be unusually active.”

Forecast, yes. Actually no. Which counts for more… these days?

Oh wait. Not even forecast. That article continued:

“Earlier this month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) updated its outlook, projecting 13 to 18 named storms with winds of at least 39 mph, of which five to nine could become hurricanes (74 mph or higher), including two to five that could reach major status (111 mph or higher). In the Atlantic basin, a typical hurricane season will yield 14 named storms, of which seven become hurricanes and three become major hurricanes, the NOAA said.”

So the typical 14 is right in that 13 to 18 range for named storms, seven hurricanes is smack dab in the middle of “five to nine” and three majors is in the centre of “two to five”. In short, they even report a prediction of a typical season as a prediction of an “unusually active” one (The Atlantic made the same mistake in May) and then report that it was unusually active whatever comes.

Including NBC acknowledging that it was the first Atlantic basin storm to reach hurricane status, without mentioning how unusually late it was, then hyping up the lack of hype with:

“Colorado State University meteorologist Philip Klotzbach said Saturday on X that Erin’s earlier minimum central pressure reading is the lowest measured in an Atlantic-season hurricane on or before Aug. 16 since 1979. Lower pressure is associated with more powerful cyclones…. The storm is the only Category 5 hurricane on record to form this early in the hurricane season, and the only Category 5 observed outside the Gulf or Caribbean this early in the year. It is also the 11th Category 5 hurricane in the past decade. This year’s hurricane season is now the fourth consecutive season with a Category 5 hurricane.”

So there you go. Mild season equals terrifyingly intense season because it must.

It gets worse. The Euronews.green item tells us, as though it were somehow newsworthy, that:

“A preliminary analysis by non-profit research organisation Climate Central claims that Erin’s rapid intensification on Saturday occurred as the hurricane moved over ‘unusually warm ocean waters’ made up to 100 times more likely by climate change.”

Preliminary analysis being a phrase here meaning rush to judgement. But really, what’s the point, since they’d come to that same conclusion no matter how long they thought about anything, if it’s the conclusion they come to because we’ve had so few hurricanes.

In point of fact this hurricane is a snooze. As they go on to admit:

“Meteorologists say Erin is ‘unusually large’ and is expected to grow in size, fluctuating between Category 2 and 3 wind speeds, as it moves northwards towards the western Atlantic Ocean.”

So it’s not a really strong storm and it’s just blowing waves and fish about. Cue the scary music:

“It isn’t forecast to make landfall, but is expected to bring life-threatening currents, waves and flooding to the Bahamas, Bermuda, the US East Coast and Canada’s Atlantic coast in the coming days.”

Life-threatening currents? Really? Apparently so. Scientific American weightlessed in with:

“On August 19 Hurricane Erin is crawling past the Bahamas as a strong Category 2 storm and is due to head toward the Carolinas and then veer northeast over the open Atlantic Ocean. Although the storm’s eye may never come within 300 miles of the mainland U.S., most of the East Coast – from Miami to Maine – is under a moderate or high risk of rip currents.”

And Heatmap emailed something similar, that “Hurricane Erin is lashing Virginia Beach with winds up to 80 miles per hour, the Mid-Atlantic with light rain, and New York City with deadly riptides”. Deadly being a word here meaning nobody died. Is that all you’ve got?

Pretty much, because “what it means for Europe’s weather” in Euronews.green turns out to be:

“The UK’s Met Office says there is the potential for the weather to turn more unsettled towards the latter part of this weekend as they keep a keen eye on the track of the hurricane.”

So British weather might become iffy. Who ever heard of that?