Are we just in another phase of the usual hurricane cycle that was calm in the period 1900-1925, busy 1926-1960, then calm again until things started picking up in 1995? Jeff Masters at Weather Underground has published an
extraordinary list of the records broken by the 2005 hurricane season, including several events that have never occured in the 500 years for which we have relatively good knowledge of hurricane activity in the Atlantic and Carribean. (Hurricanes are big, so they were hard to miss by all those Europeans sailing to and from the New World).
There is no issue as important as global warming. We are all Jews in Germany, and it is 1938.