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From today's Tampa Tribune:

BY THE NUMBERS

9: The number of named storms this year

17: The number of named storms predicted May 31 by a team at Colorado State University led by Professor William Gray

45 mph: The wind speed when Tropical Storm Alberto hit the Florida Panhandle near Adams Beach on June 13, the strongest winds over Florida all season

56 percent: The average homeowner rate increase Citizens Property Insurance Corp. requested even after no hurricanes struck Florida

27 percent: The Citizens rate increase approved to start Jan. 1

$100 million: Estimated damage in the United States from Tropical Storm Ernesto

0: The number of storms that formed in October, the first time since 2002 that no storms formed that month. Also, no Category 4 or 5 storms formed this year for the first time since 1997.

I have made the point before, but if global warming is a progressive threat and global warming was the cause of the number and severity of all the '05 storms (just ask Al Gore, he'll tell 'ya), then why wasn't this year at least as bad or worse? This year was not even in the same zip code.

This is a basic logic question, please treat it as such.