text: Ryan Maue : A year ago, I walked into a Tallahassee Borders and snapped an IPhone photo (thats my thumb) of Al Gores new book cover and marveled at the locations of hurricanes in a globally warmed future. The book was released at the tail end of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season, which uncorked one of the quietest years on record . With Copenhagen, Cancun, and the hottest year ever come and gone, you would think that global climate disruption was spinning up cyclones with reckless abandon. Remember, after Katrina in 2005, scientists published alarming papers linking increases in hurricane activity worldwide to global warming. Fast forward 5-years: the inconvenient truth is that aside from the Atlantic basin , global tropical cyclone or hurricane activity during 2010 has tanked to the lowest levels in decades .