No it's not climate change stupid

A little off topic but I couldnt help but notice this article over at Newsweek

Daniel Gross has plotted the correlation between natural disasters and the election of American presidents and concludes

I predict with a high degree of confidence that this year, the nation will witness an unexpectedly large number of destructive acts of nature—floods of biblical proportions, out-of-control wildfires, destructive tornadoes, and bone-rattling earthquakes—that will require a prompt, compassionate, and expensive response from the federal government

For according to

Erwann Michel-Kerjan, an economist at the Wharton School who studies catastrophes. According to Michel-Kerjan, this uptick in natural disasters will likely have nothing to do with global warming and everything to do with the fact that 2008 is an election year.

And if you don't beleive it check out the website

I am saying no more-Perhaps someone could do the same exercise for Britain?