As crazy environmentalists and global warming soothsayers didn’t predict, the hurricane season this year was a complete bust. Don’t believe me? Believe TBO.

It was not the hurricane season we expected, thank you.

With cataclysmic predictions that hurricanes would swarm from the tropics like termites, no one thought 2006 would be the most tranquil season in a decade.

Barring a last-second surprise from the tropics, the season will end Thursday with nine named storms, and only five of those hurricanes. This year is the first season since 1997 that only one storm nudged its way into the Gulf of Mexico.

Environmentalists are going to say that this is still proof that hurricane seasons get stronger or weaker because of global warming – in fact, the Indianapolis Colts are 10-1 because of global warming. But unless hurricanes have nothing to do with global warming, I’m not sure I see how else hurricanes can go down in a year.

On the boards.