Booker slaps down Irma climate claims
By Paul Homewood A welcome dose of common sense from Booker: Terrible though the deaths and damage caused by Hurricane Irma may be, the way it has been reported makes one wonder whether, after more than 10 years that have seen Atlantic hurricane activity at its lowest level for decades, everyone has forgotten what these monster […]
Historic Hurricanes: List of more than 100 of most memorable hurricanes since pre-colonial times
Via: http://www.hurricaneville.com/historic.html Hurricane of July, 1502–Was a storm that the great explorer and discoverer of American, Christopher Columbus, predicted would strike the island of Hispanola. He used his prediction to warn the Governor of Hispanola, Nicholas de Ovando, who had 30 ships in his fleet set sail back to Spain. However, the governor ignored him, […]
The Hurricane Harvey hustle: ‘Never let a crisis go to waste’ – Warmists trash science to hype climate fears
by Paul Driessen “When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight,” English essayist Samuel Johnson observed 240 years ago, “it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” That’s certainly true in the climate change arena. After ending U.S. participation in the Paris climate treaty and abolishing many government restrictions on fossil fuel use, the Trump Administration began […]
A Few Low CO2 Natural Disasters: Extreme weather was not lower in good old days of low CO2
A Few Low CO2 Natural Disasters Posted on November 13, 2013 by stevengoddard The world’s stupidest people (who run the US government) want you to believe that life was happy and stable in the good old days of low CO2 That leaves one thing capable of contributing to global warming – a process that reduces the amount of heat […]
Newsweek OpEd: DON’T BLAME HURRICANES IRMA AND HARVEY ON CLIMATE CHANGE
BY ALAN REYNOLDS ON 9/8/17 AT 10:33 AM This article first appeared on the Cato Institute site. “ Harvey Is What Climate Change Looks Like : It’s time to open our eyes and prepare for the world that’s coming.” That August 28 Politico article by Slate weatherman Eric Holthaus was one of many trying too hard to blame the hurricane and/or flood on […]
Left-Wing Website Hoped Hurricane Irma Would ‘F*ck Up’ Trump’s Mansion
ByJOSEPH CURL @josephcurl September 8, 2017 5.5k views Hurricane Irma is massive, killing dozens and destroying homes as it barreled through the Caribbean on its way to Florida. And that’s just how one leftist website would have it. In fact, DeathandTaxes.com, which says it’s “for lovers of news, culture, and politics” and “produces some of the […]
Climate Academic Compares Global Warming Skeptics With The 9/11 Hijackers
CHRIS WHITE Energy Reporter A professor at Rice University appeared Friday to compare climate change skeptics who oppose politicizing Tropical Storm Harvey with the terrorists responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Daniel Cohan, an associate professor of environmental engineering, tweeted that Harvey should be used as a discussion point for climate change issues, because it contributed to […]
History revised in 2002: Fed grant leads to Hurricane Andrew being upgraded to Category 5 — 10 years later! – Based on ‘we feel’ & ‘uncertainty’
Via: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sfl-scane22aug22-story.html Via Sun Sentinel From August 22, 2002: Excerpts: “They note most of Andrew’s damages, $40 billion in 2002 dollars, were the result of sustained winds between 110 and 150 mph, or between Category 3 and Category 4 strength. To meet the criteria for a Category 5, a hurricane need have winds of at […]
Prof. slams hurricane climate claims: ‘After-the-fact guesswork is not science’ – Warmists make ‘vague, untestable predictions’
Despite Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, Science Has No Idea If Climate Change Is Causing More (or Fewer) Powerful Hurricanes By Ross McKitrick This article appeared on Washington Examiner on September 6, 2017. After Hurricane Harvey hit Texas, it didn’t take long for climate alarmists to claim they knew all along it would happen. Politico’s Eric Holthaus declared “We […]
AP’s Seth Borenstein: Nature ‘has just gone nuts’ – Links bad weather to ‘global warming’
WASHINGTON (AP) — With four big hurricanes, a powerful earthquake and wildfires, it seems that nature recently has just gone nuts. Some of these disasters, like Friday’s earthquake in Mexico, are natural. Others may end up having a mix of natural and man-made ingredients after scientists examine them. We also always tend to look for […]