Author: HP McLovincraft

Seeker of rabbit holes. Pessimist. Libertine. Contrarian. Your huckleberry. Possibly true tales of sanity-blasting horror also known as abject reality. Prepare yourself. Veteran of a thousand psychic wars. I have seen the fnords. Deplatformed on Tumblr and Twitter.

“Work Stress Makes People Gay”: Malaysian Minister’s Bizarre Remark Sparks Online Mockery

A Malaysian minister has sparked controversy after suggesting that work-related stress is a factor that leads people to “become involved in the LGBT community.” His remarks, delivered in a written parliamentary reply, have drawn widespread ridicule and criticism from citizens and human rights advocates. According to South China Morning Post, Dr. Zulkifli Hasan, Malaysia’s Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Religious Affairs), listed work stress, social influences, and a lack of religious practice as primary contributors to what he termed “LGBT-related behaviour”.

“Societal influence, sexual experiences, work stress, and other personal factors come under this category [of possible causes],” Hasan said in a written parliamentary reply to a question by Siti Zailah Mohd Yusoff, a lawmaker with the opposition Islamist party PAS.

The minister’s comments came amid a parliamentary inquiry into LGBT trends, covering age, ethnicity, and contributing factors. He also said that from 2022 to 2025, a total of 135 cases related to LGBT activities were recorded as arrests or prosecutions. It is to be noted that same-sex relations remain illegal in Malaysia.

Public Backlash

Many Malaysians lampooned and mocked the statement on social media, with some sarcastically asking if the minister “works hard in parliament” since he has not seemingly “turned gay.”

“By this logic, I’m genuinely shocked my entire office isn’t gay by now,” said one user. “I know this is rage bait, but they lowkey got me considering the fact that I’m stressed and bisexual,” another user joked.

A third said, “Just to work less hours, I’ll accept and support this study.”

“Reminds me of the meme where a man sitting in front of a computer shouts to his wife, ‘Hey, Beth! I’ve found something on the internet that every doctor and scientist in the world have missed’,” joked a fourth.

Online users used the bizarre claim to advocate for better labour conditions, with comments suggesting that the government should “increase minimum wage and lower living costs” or adopt a four-day work week to prevent the population from becoming “more gay.”

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Flavio Bolsonaro Calls for Election to be “Annulled” – Extending Voting Hours Has NEVER Happened Before in Brazil’s History!

Conservative Flavio Bolsonaro called for Sunday’s presidential results to be annulled in Brazil.

This comes after socialist tyrant Lula da Silva callled his personal attorney and Brazilian Justice Christiano Zanin to hold the polls open for two extra hours. Lula arrested the former pro-American leader Jair Bolsonaro following the previous election and is still persecuting the man – like a typical communist.

Flavio Bolsonaro was predicted to win on EVERY single polling aggregator in the country.

Flavio Bolsonaro spoke out after the results were called. He called the results INVALID and stated Lula stole the election from him.

Flavio Bolsonaro: “What happened today was not something normal. In fact, it was something unacceptable. At 5:01 pm, Justice Zanin makes a decision extending the election hours by 2 hours. This has never happened before in the history of Brazil… A Supreme Court justice, for the first time in history—Lula’s former lawyer—issued a unilateral decree at the request of a former law partner of his, and changed the rules of the game in the middle of the game!… At 5:01 PM, Justice Zanin—who is not part of the Superior Electoral Court—trampling over the specialized electoral court, made a decision extending voting by two hours. This had never happened in the history of Brazil!”

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Russia Is No Threat to America

When you boil down the essence of the alleged Russian military threat to America’s homeland security it amounts to just plain barking idiocy; it’s so out to lunch as to be offensive to even a modicum of human intelligence.

As we have seen in Parts 1 & 2, any conceivable threat of a Russian nuclear attack on the American homeland is already in deep checkmate.

That’s because America’s bought and paid for strategic nuclear triad, which bears a de minimis annual operating, maintenance and replacement cost of just $75 billion per year, has upwards of 900 warheads lined up to survive a first strike; and to then deliver a civilization-ending retaliatory strike to the Russian homeland that would be the equivalent of 13,000 Hiroshima’s. It would kill and injure 90 million Russians or 65% of its entire population of men, women and children within hours.

Accordingly, no Russian leader – whether as rational as Putin or a military putsch down the road – would ever give an unprovoked nuclear first strike attack on America a second thought. It’s not remotely in the cards of any future history, and therefore provides zero reason for Washington’s meddling in Ukraine on Russia’s doorstep.

Moreover, the alternative theoretical threat of a conventional military assault on the home territory of America is even more ludicrous. Russia does not remotely have the naval firepower and air-and sea-lift capacities to get even a 500 soldiers to the New Jersey shores, let alone the million-man lethally armed, supported and continuously re-supplied combatant units that would be needed for an invasion of the US that could make a difference.

Again, they have not a single serviceable aircraft carrier, no fully equipped carrier battle groups and a decrepit surface Navy of aging cruisers, destroyers, and frigates, many of Soviet-era design and dispersed across separated fleets. Altogether this remnant of the Soviet era Navy amounts to 1.4 million displacement tons or just 17% of the 8.0 million tons of state-of-the-art surface and attack submarine combatants fielded by the US Navy.

For want of doubt, just consider what would happen to a Russian invasionary armada owing to the 50 cruise-missile equipped US attack submarines that would be lying in wait at the choke points far from the US shores. To wit, this isn’t November 1941 one when six Japanese aircraft carriers – Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū, Hiryū, Shōkaku, and Zuikaku – mbarked silently and unseen on the blue waters of the Western Pacific on the way to Pearl Harbor.

To the contrary, the only place in the world were Russia could assemble a expeditionary fleet of the requisite scale to attack America would be in Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula. The latter has been its primary warm water port since it was purchased by Catherine the Great from the Ottoman’s in 1783, not stolen from Ukraine in 2014 as the Washington narrative falsely claims.

Here’s the thing. The US Navy usually has two to three carrier battle groups in the vicinity of the Mediterranean Sea and could mobilize more if needed to block the route from Sevastopol to Gibraltar shown below. And, even more lethally, it also has a double digit numbers of the current Los Angeles class, Seawolf-class and state of the art Virginia Class attack submarines that could conduct a shooting gallery exercise at all the choke points along the way. That is, at the Bosporus Strait in Turkey, the narrow passage around the boot of Italy and Sicily, and most especially at the mere 8-mile wide channel at the Pillar of Heracles (Gibraltar).

The truth is, no Russian military leaders would ever send their surface navy on this kind of suicide voyage from Sevastopol to Gibraltar. Unlike in 1941, Washington’s eye’s in the sky would know the minute that Russia began to assemble even a few boats for an armada to be launched from Sevastopol; and a president from either party, like JFK in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, would tell the Kremlin forthwith that the only purpose of such an naval armada would not be to rescue Russian fisherman stranded in Rio de Janeiro, but to attack the homeland of America.

Accordingly, Russia would be told that its Black Sea fleet would be sunk the minute it passed through the Bosporus or beyond, and that would be the end of the Russian invasion of America then and there. The Kremlin would either turn back the fleet in the Black Sea or find it incommunicado in the Davy Jones’ Locker, Mediterranean division.

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Told You So: The Deep State Does Exist

From Glenn Reynolds:

Via DataRepublican, we have learned that a group of Democratic governors, retired military and intelligence officers, and former USAID “color revolution” specialists, have for some time been plotting to pull off a color revolution in the United States. Or, to put it more precisely, they have been conspiring to overthrow the constitutionally elected government of the United States, and to replace the Constitution with something completely different.

There’s a lot of data, including videos, recordings, transcripts of Signal chats, etc., but the gist is this: If the Democrats take the House and Senate (and maybe if they don’t), various leftist groups will stage violent protests, intended to press Trump into invoking the Insurrection Act and sending in troops. Once he does, Democratic governors in blue states will denounce his acts as illegal (whether they are or not) and mount resistance on various levels. The goal is to destabilize things enough that they can seize power and replace the Constitution.

(Shaking my head.)

Mmmf. Look, it’s not as if some of us haven’t been warning about something like this for several years now.

The left has spent those same years screaming about its fear of exactly this scenario, just with the roles reversed. By its take, President Donald Trump sends in the troops, democracy dies, and so on. I forget where, but I’ve already written that the only way we’d ever get there would be another “Summer of Love” with burning cities, shot cops, and the whole bit. Turns out the deep state was writing the same script, but actually acting on it.

As usual with Democrats, it’s not what caused the reaction from the right; it’s the reaction itself that they label the problem.

The researcher known as DataRepublican says an insider handed her thousands of pages of documents and hundreds of recordings. By her account and others’, somebody in the network had an AI note-taker recording and archiving calls going back to 2023, then left the archive sitting in a publicly accessible Google Drive. Color-revolution experts, ladies and gentlemen.

She has been releasing the material in chunks, and a few things in it are hard to wave away. In one of those recordings, a former USAID hand who co-founded a group called “Renew American Democracy” walks through three “crisis scenarios or democratic emergencies” people should prepare for: an election meltdown, “potential militarization, the Insurrection Act,” and an “acute democratic crisis.”

Another recording describes an options memo for governors on how they might respond if the federal government came to be regarded as illegitimate, including coordination among states and communication with foreign governments. A speaker in another call describes meetings with “Governors Safeguarding Democracy,” a forum of Democratic governors. That group, in case you don’t know, was started about a week after Donald Trump was elected. Its co-chairs at launch were Gov. JB Pritzker (D-Ill.) and Gov. Jared Polis (D-Colo.). As far as I’ve been able to find out, these are still at the head table.

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Old Ilhan Omar Tweet Resurfaces That Doesn’t Help Her Case At All

As she faces allegations of immigration fraud, a central aspect of the defense that Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Mogadishu) is that her name is indeed Ilhan Omar. Or to be precise, Ilhan Abdullahi Omar. The search warrant that was issued for the raid on her home identifies her as “Congresswoman Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.”

This matters, because the man she married whom many say is her brother is named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Omar herself has dismissed the controversy as baseless (as well as racist and “Islamophobic” and all the usual tosh and twaddle), and when asked about her name, answered: “Ilhan Abdullahi Omar, you know it. It’s Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.”

Now, however, a 2013 Ilhan Omar tweet has surfaced that only strengthens the case that she is indeed named Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, lending credence to the charge that when she married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, she was marrying her brother in order to help him get into the United States. And that, of course, is immigration fraud.

The case against Omar, of course, doesn’t depend on this alone. There is a great deal more evidence that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is indeed her brother. But this is another piece of the puzzle, and an extremely revealing one. Fox News reported Saturday that in a deleted 2013 social media post, the winsome Somalia-First solon dropped a massive clue regarding her name.

“Happy Father’s Day,” the future darling of the far-left and pro-Sharia forces in the U.S. wrote, “to my aabo [father] Nur Said, I am forever grateful to Allah for giving me the best father…” She deleted this tweet on Sept. 19, 2019, eight months after she entered Congress. Now, why would an innocuous Father’s Day greeting be something that an older Omar, now embarked upon a political career on the national stage, would want to delete?

Well, it seems that she now contends that her father’s name is Nur Omar Mohamed. In line with Somali naming practices, this would support the claim that her name is Omar also. However, in the deleted tweet, she calls her father “Nur Said.”

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How Israel Used AI to Relentlessly Murder Palestinian Journalists and Their Families in Their Homes

It’s worse than we thought. In research that I have undertaken over the last few weeks based on information compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) about Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since October 2023, I’ve discovered that, of the 68 Palestinian journalists killed by Israel in the first three months of their genocidal campaign, the majority were targeted and killed while at home with their families. My research provides startling confirmation, never unearthed before, of the widespread use of Israel’s AI program, dubbed “Where’s Daddy?”, specifically for journalists, relentlessly targeting them when they were at home, with a complete disregard both for their required protection as civilians under international humanitarian law, and for the often extensive “collateral damage” inflicted on their families.

There is no doubt that Israel’s sustained genocidal assault on the largely civilian population of the Gaza Strip, now in its fourth year, has been the deadliest military conflict for journalists in human history.

As the journalist Nick Turse reported for Brown University’s “Costs of War” project in April 2025, “The war in Gaza has, since October 7, 2023, killed more journalists than the US Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including the conflicts in Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined.”

Under international humanitarian law, as most noticeably enshrined in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977, “Civilian journalists engaged in professional missions in areas of armed conflict must be respected and protected as long as they are not taking a direct part in hostilities.” (emphasis added).

The State of Israel, however, has nothing but contempt for international humanitarian law. As far as they are concerned, everyone who works for a media outlet that is, in any way, aligned with the military wing of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or any other militant faction in Gaza, is a terrorist, and can be targeted and killed, and anyone who works as a journalist but has previously had any suspected involvement with any of these military factions in any kind of capacity can also be targeted and killed.

Israel doesn’t recognize that, by the same application of its lawless logic, almost every journalist in Israel could be regarded similarly by the Palestinians, because military service is mandatory in Israel. Most crucially, however, it fails to recognize that, if an individual has, in the past, been a part of a Palestinian military faction in any way, that doesn’t apply endlessly as a justification for their targeted killing. If they don a press vest and begin reporting, international humanitarian law makes it clear, as noted above, that they cannot be regarded as a legitimate military target unless they are specifically “taking a direct part in hostilities.”

In a cynical, devious and sustained effort to erase these distinctions, Israel has targeted and killed journalists for what it regards as “suspicious activity” — using drones to secure footage or photos, for example, or using vantage points on buildings, both for the overview they provide, but also, often, to secure transmission signals in an environment in which internet and mobile phone signals are often notoriously unreliable.

It has also, increasingly, resorted to black propaganda, alleging, almost entirely without providing evidence, that the journalists it has killed were not journalists at all, but were military operatives masquerading as journalists, and it has sometimes targeted these journalists directly, texting or calling them to tell them to stop their work or threatening them that, if they don’t stop, they or their families will be targeted and killed.

One reason why Israel feels empowered to so comprehensively erase the distinctions between combatants and civilians is because, since the 1990s, western governments (including the US in 1997, the EU in 2003, and the UK in 2021) have obligingly designed the whole of Hamas as a terrorist organization — not just its military wing, but also the whole of the civilian administrative government in Gaza.

Since October 7, 2023, this has allowed to Israel to claim that, for example, doctors and medical staff can — if a devious enough excuse can be invented — be regarded as terrorists because they work for the Ministry of Health. This is a western-approved betrayal of the absolute prohibition on targeting doctors or hospitals, which Israel has thoroughly embraced, making risible and never-proven claims that the hospitals were Hamas control and command centres, and that the doctors, like the journalists, were not actually doctors at all, but were military operatives pretending to be doctors.

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Israel demolishes home of Lebanese journalist whose viral film exposed pager attack

The occupying Israeli army targeted a prominent Lebanese journalist when they pillaged and demolished his painstakingly-constructed family home located outside Israel’s so-called “buffer zone” in southern Lebanon. Was it retaliation for his widely-viewed documentary on Israel’s notorious pager attacks?

Israeli soldiers have looted and demolished the family home of Radwan Mortada, a prominent Lebanese investigative journalist who directed the recent viral Al Jazeera 360 documentary “The Trap.” The film exposes the surreptitious network and planning behind Israel’s notorious pager attack, which left hundreds of Lebanese citizens wounded and maimed, and has become one of the channel’s most-watched in recent history.

Israel’s destruction of Mortada family home on October 17 has drawn condemnation from at least one international press freedom group, the Committee to Protect Journalists. On October 21, the organization issued a statement declaring that it “strongly condemns the Israeli military’s demolition of journalist Radwan Mortada’s family home in southern Lebanon. Just three weeks earlier, Mortada released an Al Jazeera documentary on the Israeli 2024 pager attack. In the days leading up to the demolition, Israeli soldiers launched a sound bomb, a tank tore down the entrance, and soldiers looted personal belongings. CPJ fears this destruction is in retaliation for Mortada’s work, marking another dangerous violation of international law and disregard for the press.”

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Public Schools Vs. Classical Instruction: Here’s the Biggest Difference

Ask anyone, and they’ll likely tell you that the main difference between classical education and mainstream public education is difficulty. Some may even assume, wrongly, that classical education is only for the ultra-intelligent.

This is far from the truth. Classical education is notably more rigorous than public education (fourth-grade reading lists in classical schools might include titles such as Beowulf, Little Women, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), but rigor is not the primary distinction.

Rather, the true difference is scope.

Compare this to modern public education, which grew out of the “common school” movement under Horace Mann. Students are taught to follow structure and comply, and the main goal is meeting basic benchmarks.

The result is an education characterized by mundane tasks, weak content, little to no one-on-one time with teachers, and a one-dimensional view of learning.

Sociologists Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis even went as far as to claim that public schools are miniature workplaces: students earn grades for obedience and busywork the way employees earn paychecks.

As a product of public education myself, I remember being horrified in eleventh grade when my Algebra 2 teacher announced that we’d be using a flipped classroom model, in which students teach themselves new concepts at home, then complete worksheets under supervision during class time. In practice, that meant I taught myself at home while the teacher’s role diminished to reviewing worksheets.

Now, compare this to classical education.

As a centuries-old approach dating back to ancient Greece, classical education aims to form the whole person, not just prepare students for the next test and move them along.

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Beware the U.S. False Flag Conspiracy Against Iran: ‘Trumped-up’ Threats

I saw this headline recently across several mainstream ‘news’ sites: “Iran in ‘Advanced Stages’ of Planning Attacks on Americans,” ‘officials’ say. My very first thought was what type of attack on Americans will be perpetrated by the U.S. to blame on Iran? The U.S. and Zionist Israel are the two most prolific false flag operators in the world, and seemingly use these tactics on a constant basis in order to fool gullible American imbeciles into supporting more U.S. war and terror against an innocent ‘enemy’ nation and Americans alike. Consider Fort Sumpter, Pearl Harbor, the USS Liberty, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Oklahoma City bombing, 9/11, the ‘covid’ hoax; just to name a minuscule handful of the multitude of U.S. planned false flag events throughout history.

Forget for a moment the U.S. and Israel launched unprovoked, purely aggressive attacks and war against Iran this year, killing their political heads, bombing their infrastructure, and purposely murdering 120 plus elementary school children and at least 35 innocent adults at the Shaiare Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab. Forget if you can that the U.S. has been aggressively warring against Iran in one form or another for at least 73 years, and using unholy sanctions, tariffs, and other brutal means, including great financial harm, against Iranians, who by the way, have not aggressively attacked another country in hundreds of years. The evil U.S. empire however, has been aggressively warring against much of the world, murdering, or responsible for killing, tens (if not more) of millions of civilians, since its very inception.

The complicit U.S. media and the political class have been warning that Iran is going to attack the U.S. for decades, and yet, that has never happened. They have warned that Iran has and would use nuclear weapons. The same is true of the evil genocidal Netanyahu in Zionist Israel. In fact, the exact opposite is the case, as the U.S. has threatened and attacked Iran, either alone or by proxy, for seeming eons. The U.S. has violently interfered in Iranian affairs, elections, and was responsible for overthrowing its government, putting into power a brutal U.S. puppet regime, thereby effectively ruling over Iran and its people for 26 years, after the overthrow of Mosaddegh, the elected prime minister of Iran, by the U.S. and Britian in 1953.

Before any headline ‘readers’ (dolts) accuse me of being a supporter of Iranian politics, let me remind you that I feel the very same hatred and contempt for every government on earth. Politicians and governments, no matter where they happen to exist, are the worst, most evil and perverted of all mankind, including those rulers in Iran, but they have not once aggressively attacked the U.S. This is not an attempt to excuse rulers in Iran or anywhere else, it is simply to put the truth out there so those nationalist ignoramuses in the West who are too ignorant to figure this out on their own, will at least have been warned

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Disappearing Hurricanes Leave Disappointed Scientists Without Fuel For Climate Alarm

Emergency explanations have had to be rushed to the climate catastrophizing front following the shocking news that hurricanes in the North Atlantic have largely disappeared this year.

Until recently the area was heading for a double bagel – zero hurricanes with zero major hurricanes, although a late storm has upset a score line never before seen in the historical record. As with all ‘extreme’ outlier weather events, humans must be responsible, at least that has been the mainstream reaction for around 30 years (we have the computer models to prove it). But wait, not on this occasion. Simon King from the BBC states that a natural occurring El Niño is the “biggest reason“.

Wot, no humans altering the climate? Surely a first for the BBC. In fact, lead weather presenter King is on the right track in that the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a transporter of heat from the Pacific Ocean around the world, can reduce wind shear and supress storm activity. But activity is complex in the chaotic, non-linear, largely unmeasurable atmosphere. Such a simple explanation didn’t work well in 2023 when another strong El Niño occurred at a time when there was a long-term-average-busting hurricane season with seven hurricanes and three major hurricanes. Then the narrative-driven media was jammed packed with possible anthropogenic causes.

Long experience of being fed climate claptrap means we must be intrigued when ‘natural’ reasons are suddenly being used to explain the inevitable weather outliers that run the danger of casting doubt on the pseudoscience backing the Net Zero fantasy. While such natural explanations are welcome, indeed almost always highly relevant, they are curiously missing from most useful idiot mainstream climate messaging.

In 2018, Oliver Milman of the Guardian gave us the standard climate slop on extreme storms when he reported: “Hurricane rainfall could increase by a third and wind speeds boosted by up to 25 knots if global warming continues.”

Almost invariably, natural causes for all weather or weather-related events are either missing or entirely lost in proselytizing action. For coral showing five years of record growth on the Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral ecosystem in the world – almost no interest in the mainstream media.

Global burned areas in the annual fire season to February 2026 were down 18% on the recent 20-year average – who cares when there is a much better story about Bordeaux claret having a slightly smoky taste this year due to a number of local fires indicative of Fireball Earth. Don’t believe that such a story could appear in the biased press – I give you Esme Stallard’s 2023 BBC classic: ‘Climate change could make beer taste worse.’

A stable Greenland ice sheet this year, maybe a small increase – get in the bin. Surely this is a good news story for all except perhaps makers of scuba diving equipment selling kit for all those grandchildren who are going to be under water later in the century. A natural explanation, in case it never gets reported, is that the northern 2026 summer jet stream kept high pressure over the UK and Europe, and all the low pressure-induced rain seems to have fallen as snow during a colder Greenland season. In addition, cyclical factors seem to be at play since ice loss in Greenland has been falling for a number of years anyway.

Much of this is caused by, or is called, weather. Explaining that bad or extreme weather is as much a natural event as all other types does not fit the predetermined narrative that drives the population panic required for the hard Left Net Zero project. Just ‘look out of the window’ and complex atmospheric science can be easily understood by blaming all the crap weather on humans using hydrocarbons. Works every time when there are loads of convenient hurricanes – less well when the wind is stilled and the ocean is as calm as a mill pond.

In fact, the constant suggestion that human-caused climate change will lead to more severe tropical hurricanes is not borne out by scientific data. Leaving aside the fact that hurricanes in number and strength have shown little noticeable change for at least a century, the idea that warmer ocean waters caused by higher carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are stoking up the storms is highly contentious. In 2023, the tropical Atlantic featured record surface temperatures but a powerful El Niño failed to make much impression on the high number of storms. Ocean temperatures this year were a little cooler but still remained at the third highest level recorded. Did a marginal drop in temperature affect the dramatic turnaround in hurricane numbers? Maybe, maybe not, but it might be an idea to stay off blaming it on humans until more definite answers are found.

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