Links tagged “hurricanes”
- Climate event attribution research being used as stealth advocacy – ‘Can be used to help people sue greenhouse gas emitters’ & getting govt’s ‘to start changing their policies’
- Study: Official US Climate Data Reveals No Cause For Alarm – ‘US climate has become less extreme compared to previous ages’
In short, the US climate is in most ways less extreme than it used to be. Temperatures are less extreme at both ends of the scale, storms less severe and droughts far less damaging. While it is now slightly warmer, this appears to have been largely beneficial.
Wildfires now burn only a fraction of the acreage they did prior to WW2
Sea-level rise is currently no higher than around the mid-20th century
Tornadoes are now less common than they used to be, particularly the stronger ones.
Floods are not getting worse
Hurricanes are not becoming either more frequent or powerful.
Summers were hotter in the 1930s than in any recent years.
Little or no rise in temperatures since the mid-1990s.
- Biden urges Vote for me for better weather: If Trump wins, ‘how many suburbs will be burned in wildfires?’ – ‘How many suburbs will have been blown away in superstorms?’
- Dem Speaker Nancy Pelosi: ‘Mother Earth is angry’ – ‘She’s telling us with hurricanes on the Gulf Coast, fires in the West, whatever it is…the climate crisis is real and has an impact’
- Meteorologist Joe Bastardi: It’s the nonsense — not the climate — that is reaching extremes
- Meteorologist Joe Bastardi: Activists ‘weaponizing’ weather for climate agenda – The unscientific hits keep on coming — Cyclone energy not rising
- Democrats try to ride Hurricane Laura to Green New Deal
Marc Morano, editor-in-chief of the Climate Depot: “The media and climate change campaigners have been lying to you,” Morano told American Wire. “Landfalls of major hurricanes in the U.S. have actually declined over the past one hundred and forty years, long before humans began burning fossil fuels,” says Morano...
Morano points out that data shows a distinct lack of intense storms: “What the media has largely ignored is the fact that between 2005 and 2017 no major hurricanes made landfall in the United States. A major hurricane is defined as category three or larger. That twelve-year span was the longest extended period of no major hurricanes hitting the U.S. mainland since at least 1900.”
- Joe Bastardi’s Point-by-point rebuttal of Kamala Harris’s unscientific climate tweet
Bastardi's fact check:
1) wildfires less than 20% of earlier 20th century in acreage burned.
2) Hurricane ace index/storm near record lows this year, Globally no increase. EPAC/WPAC well below average So is total Global production this season.
3) Much worse storms than what we see now have always run rampant. The list is legion and too numerous to name.
4) Heatwaves are nothing compared to the 1930s , and if you didn’t have rolling blackouts due to energy policy, there would be less problems, Why the rest of the nation would want to adopt the example of California is beyond any rational person. Besides cold kills more than warm, another fact ignored.
- ‘Damage from Hurricane Laura has turned out to be much less than originally predicted’
- Hurricane Laura & the Wind Speed Dilemma: ‘Looking at sustained winds, one would conclude that Laura was only a weak category two hurricane’
