Histeria

La relación entre el “calentamiento global” y la intensidad de los huracanes:

Besides being darned good forecasters, the good people at the National Hurricane Center are also paragons of social sensitivity. They give storms names reflective of the cultures through which they are likely to pass. Hurricanes in the Atlantic basin are given anglicized names or ones that are roughly similar in both English and Spanish: Alberto, Bob, Gloria. In the Eastern Pacific, where storms frequently hit western Mexico, almost all the names are pure Spanish.

In this vein, I'd like to vote that this year's "H" storm in the Atlantic be given the name Hysteria. As in, caused-by-global-warming-hysteria. As in, the perception that there's been a tremendous increase in the damage done by these storms caused by global warming.

The name should be "Hysteria," because that's simply, flatly, untrue.