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RUSH: Chuck in Portland. It’s great to have you, sir. How are you doing? CALLER: Hey, Rush. Glad to be on your show this morning. RUSH: Great to have you here. I appreciate your call. These people in Hollywood are absolutely bonkers. They’re nuts. They don’t know what they’re talking about. Even the ones in academia are giving half-truths about how these hurricanes really behave and hyping climate change because that’s where the universities make their money off this. Michael Mann is one of them, the way he talked about Harvey. But think of a hurricane, Rush — and you’ve...

Following in the footsteps of an earlier study, government scientists on Tuesday said warmer oceans should translate to fewer Atlantic hurricanes striking the United States. The reason: As sea surface temperatures warm globally, sustained vertical wind shear increases. Wind shear makes it difficult for storms to form and grow. "Using data extending back to the middle nineteenth century, we found a gentle decrease in the trend of U.S. landfalling hurricanes when the global ocean is warmed up," Chunzai Wang, a physical oceanographer and climate scientist with NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami said in a prepared statement. Sang-Ki...