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Mother Nature Still Makes the Rules I saw this observation today and had to laugh. After all the predictions, models, arguments, regulations, taxes and political debate surrounding climate and weather, Mother Nature continues to remind us of something pretty basic: We don't control the weather. In 2025, there were zero U.S. hurricane landfalls . And so far in 2026, we're still sitting at zero . Does that prove climate change isn't real? No. Does it prove hurricanes have disappeared? Obviously not. A quiet stretch can simply be a quiet stretch, and hurricane activity varies enormously from year to year. But that's also part of my point. We sometimes talk as though every hurricane, drought, heat wave—or lack thereof—can be neatly attributed to one policy, one politician, one emissions target or one explanation. The actual climate and weather systems are considerably more complicated than that. We can study them. We can model them. We can prepare for them. We can debate ...