• Login
  • Register
The Daily Sceptic
No Result
View All Result
  • Articles
  • About
  • Archive
    • ARCHIVE
    • NEWS ROUND-UPS
  • Podcasts
  • Newsletter
  • Premium
  • Donate
  • Log In
The Daily Sceptic
No Result
View All Result

No, Climate Change Was Not to Blame for Hurricane Milton

by Paul Homewood
11 October 2024 7:00 AM

Every time a powerful hurricane comes along, the usual cry goes up that climate change is to blame, making them bigger and stronger than ever before.

It is the same this time with Hurricane Milton, which has just hit Florida, amid claims of “the worst to hit Florida in 100 years”, “storm of the century” and “a historic storm”. As with Hurricane Helene a couple of weeks ago, it no doubt will not take long for Weather Attribution organisations to claim that climate change made Milton nuch more likely to occur.


To read the rest of this article, you need to donate at least £5/month or £50/year to the Daily Sceptic, then create an account on this website. The easiest way to create an account after you’ve made a donation is to click on the ‘Log In’ button on the main menu bar, click ‘Register’ underneath the sign-in box, then create an account, making sure you enter the same email address as the one you used when making a donation. Once you’re logged in, you can then read all our paywalled content, including this article. Being a donor will also entitle you to comment below the line, discuss articles with our contributors and editors in a members-only Discord forum and access the premium content in the Sceptic, our weekly podcast. A one-off donation of at least £5 will also entitle you to the same benefits for one month. You can donate here.

There are more details about how to create an account, and a number of things you can try if you’re already a donor – and have an account – but cannot access the above perks on our Premium page.

Tags: Climate AlarmismFloridaHurricane MiltonTampa

Donate

We depend on your donations to keep this site going. Please give what you can.

Donate Today

Comment on this Article

You’ll need to set up an account to comment if you don’t already have one. We ask for a minimum donation of £5 if you'd like to make a comment or post in our Forums.

Sign Up
Previous Post

News Round-Up

Next Post

Walz’s COVID-19 Legacy

Subscribe
Login
Notify of
Please log in to comment

To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.

Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.

15 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
NeilParkin
NeilParkin
9 months ago

Anyone would think that Hollywood softened us up for the last 25 years with weather based disaster films, in which obscure or previously discredited scientists were able to single handedly convince the government of the error of our ways, save the day, get the girl, live happily ever after etc etc.

7
0
Dinger64
Dinger64
9 months ago

Reality check: mankind has and does live in one of the longest and most stable sea level era’s of the last 20000 years!

Post-Glacial_Sea_Level_rise2-1
Last edited 9 months ago by Dinger64
6
0
Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
9 months ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Yes but humans will send that line into exponential increase if we don’t DO SOMETHING!!! ANYTHING!

Last edited 9 months ago by Marcus Aurelius knew
4
0
Dinger64
Dinger64
9 months ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

I thought generally populations got wiser with better education and better understanding but it seems they are becoming more gullible doesn’t it?

7
0
Hardliner
Hardliner
9 months ago
Reply to  Dinger64

…a very good point Dinger. Despite all the learning, enlightenment, and advances it seems that control of other humans remains the main agenda…

Last edited 9 months ago by Hardliner
2
0
Old Arellian
Old Arellian
9 months ago
Reply to  Dinger64

I came across my eldest’s Year 11 geography jotter [2006/07]. Top of the first page: “Weather – the day to day condition of the atmosphere. It includes temperature, sunshine, rainfall and wind. Climate – the weather condition of a place over many years” Who knew? Later there’s a detailed explanation of hurricanes. I can’t believe.they still teach such heresy, especially at GCSE level, hence the gullibility?

2
0
Purpleone
Purpleone
9 months ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Depends where that education is coming from I’d say…

1
0
varmint
varmint
9 months ago

Notice that the war on “misinformation” is all the rage. There are all these official “factcheckers” working overtime trying to prevent all the views officialdom don’t like, but on the issue of climate and energy anything goes and the “factcheckers” are nowhere to be seen —–We regularly get Politicians, media and activists (which are often the same people) spouting evidence free drivel on climate and energy that is very easily checked. — (1) “Renewables are now cheaper than fossil fuels”—- FALSE. If you hammer fossil fuels with huge costs and give 100% subsidy to renewables, you have distorted the market so that it is absurd to make that claim, and in any case fossil fuels are full time energy and renewables are part time. (2) “Climate Change is happening because there is a huge consensus of scientists who say so”—–FALSE. Nothing happens because lot’s of people say so. (3) “Storms, floods and droughts are getting worse because of global warming”—-FALSE. Real world data indicates no such thing. —–(4) Sea levels are rising. —–This is trying to imply that sea level is rising because of global warming caused by humans, but sea levels have been rising for thousands of years and there is no evidence of an increase in the rate of sea level rise —so FALSE. —–These type of claims are made all over our TV News and are seldom challenged. —Where are the “factcheckers”?

10
0
Purpleone
Purpleone
9 months ago
Reply to  varmint

No points to be gained in checking those type of facts! 😉

2
0
Sceptical Steve
Sceptical Steve
9 months ago

My elder brother has just completed his annual migration from his main residence in New Hampshire to Naples, Florida.

As Naples is 165 miles south of Tampa, I was concerned about the circumstances of his journey. He and his wife set off on Friday 5 October and completed the 1,500 mile journey on Monday night, having driven past Tampa, where he reported that the roads north were choked, as Tampa’s residents followed the mayor’s advice/instruction to get the hell out. Andy, on the other hand, had a stress-free journey south, and he even commented on the ready availability of charging points for his Tesla.

Yesterday, after the storm had passed, he reported that the maximum observed wind speeds at his property had been 35 mph and, although he’d deployed the storm shutters, there was never any concern about the integrity of the property.

His business partner, who had a property at Tarpon Springs, 30 miles to the north of the hurricane’s landfall (and just 4 feet above sea-level) had been instructed to evacuate his house, but had been able to monitor it through smart technology. The house remained undamaged, never lost its power supply, and the much-feared storm-surge was much lower than expected.

All in all, it’s hard to escape the conclusion that the whole hurricane scare was hysterically overblown for political purposes both in the US and abroad.

11
0
Dinger64
Dinger64
9 months ago
Reply to  Sceptical Steve

First hand info is always the best 👌
Nice one Steve

5
0
Hardliner
Hardliner
9 months ago
Reply to  Sceptical Steve

I was not surprised to hear Socialist Joe politicising the weather, par for the course. I was surprsied to hear deSantos going along with it, when a brief glimpse at Windy [weather forecasting channel] 3 days ago showed that Marlin was not that serious [given that Florida lies in the hurricane belt and must expect some bad weather..]. I’m guessing that >200 dead in H Helene made everyone super-cautious, that and the thought of getting some free greenbacks from FEMA.

Being Americans, they have started suing each other about hurricanes potentially causing delays to voting………. Oh well, takes their minds off their America’s Cup wipe-out I suppose 🙂

3
0
The old bat
The old bat
9 months ago

I think it’s to try and fix an event in people’s minds by talking it up. It’s like the naming of storms in the UK. People don’t remember what really happened, but they do remember the hoo ha round it, ergo, it must have been bad. I looked at a few live streams in Florida during the hurricane, and it didn’t look out of the ordinary – in fact, if it had been that bad, I don’t think a Web cam would have survived.

4
0
Purpleone
Purpleone
9 months ago
Reply to  The old bat

Or the comms to it for sure – the disappointment in the newsreaders as it was reported was palpable

2
0
john1T
john1T
9 months ago
Reply to  The old bat

Agreed, it is all propaganda. The BBC showed a webcam seeded up to make it look more dramatic.

4
0

NEWSLETTER

View today’s newsletter

To receive our latest news in the form of a daily email, enter your details here:

DONATE

PODCAST

The Sceptic | Episode 45: Jack Hadfield on the Anti-Asylum Protests, Alan Miller on the Tyranny of Digital ID and James Graham on the Net Zero Pension Threat

by Richard Eldred
25 July 2025
0

LISTED ARTICLES

  • Most Read
  • Most Commented
  • Editor’s Picks

News Round-Up

30 July 2025
by Toby Young

Trump Was Right to Skewer Starmer Over Britain’s “Windmills Scam”

30 July 2025
by Ben Pile

The Online Safety Act is a Censor’s Charter

30 July 2025
by Andrew Doyle

The False Promises of Electric Vehicles Are Being Exposed

29 July 2025
by Tilak Doshi

Political Censors Have Cynically Hijacked Vital Child Protections

30 July 2025
by Toby Young

Trump Was Right to Skewer Starmer Over Britain’s “Windmills Scam”

24

Starmer to Recognise a Palestinian State

51

Political Censors Have Cynically Hijacked Vital Child Protections

17

Rotherham Police Sexually Abused Us Too, Say Five Grooming Victims

12

The False Promises of Electric Vehicles Are Being Exposed

47

Masking Our Schoolchildren Was Child Abuse – A Rare Chance to Stop It Returning

30 July 2025
by Dr Gary Sidley

The Online Safety Act is a Censor’s Charter

30 July 2025
by Andrew Doyle

Edinburgh University’s Decolonisation Report is Pure Left-Wing Politics

30 July 2025
by James Alexander

Trump Was Right to Skewer Starmer Over Britain’s “Windmills Scam”

30 July 2025
by Ben Pile

The NHS ‘Non-Jobs’ Bonanza

29 July 2025
by David Craig

POSTS BY DATE

October 2024
M T W T F S S
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031  
« Sep   Nov »

SOCIAL LINKS

Free Speech Union

NEWSLETTER

View today’s newsletter

To receive our latest news in the form of a daily email, enter your details here:

POSTS BY DATE

October 2024
M T W T F S S
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031  
« Sep   Nov »

DONATE

LISTED ARTICLES

  • Most Read
  • Most Commented
  • Editor’s Picks

News Round-Up

30 July 2025
by Toby Young

Trump Was Right to Skewer Starmer Over Britain’s “Windmills Scam”

30 July 2025
by Ben Pile

The Online Safety Act is a Censor’s Charter

30 July 2025
by Andrew Doyle

The False Promises of Electric Vehicles Are Being Exposed

29 July 2025
by Tilak Doshi

Political Censors Have Cynically Hijacked Vital Child Protections

30 July 2025
by Toby Young

Trump Was Right to Skewer Starmer Over Britain’s “Windmills Scam”

24

Starmer to Recognise a Palestinian State

51

Political Censors Have Cynically Hijacked Vital Child Protections

17

Rotherham Police Sexually Abused Us Too, Say Five Grooming Victims

12

The False Promises of Electric Vehicles Are Being Exposed

47

Masking Our Schoolchildren Was Child Abuse – A Rare Chance to Stop It Returning

30 July 2025
by Dr Gary Sidley

The Online Safety Act is a Censor’s Charter

30 July 2025
by Andrew Doyle

Edinburgh University’s Decolonisation Report is Pure Left-Wing Politics

30 July 2025
by James Alexander

Trump Was Right to Skewer Starmer Over Britain’s “Windmills Scam”

30 July 2025
by Ben Pile

The NHS ‘Non-Jobs’ Bonanza

29 July 2025
by David Craig

SOCIAL LINKS

Free Speech Union
  • Home
  • About us
  • Donate
  • Privacy Policy

Facebook

  • X

Instagram

RSS

Subscribe to our newsletter

© Skeptics Ltd.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password? Sign Up

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • Articles
  • About
  • Archive
    • ARCHIVE
    • NEWS ROUND-UPS
  • Podcasts
  • Newsletter
  • Premium
  • Donate
  • Log In

© Skeptics Ltd.

wpDiscuz
You are going to send email to

Move Comment
Perfecty
Do you wish to receive notifications of new articles?
Notifications preferences