by Scott Creighton
Dandelion Salad reposted a rather breathless screed from one Chris Williams titled “How the 1 Percent Conjured up a Moster Storm“. it’s all about how climate change is creating these Frankenstorms” like nothing we have seen in the past 10,000 years or so.
“The riptides of climate change are beginning to tear at the fabric of our biosphere as the earth’s climate system lurches, in ungainly and lumbering jerks, from the relatively dormant and benign stability of the last 10,000 years, toward a more volatile, violent and less hospitable new climatic state, previously unknown to human civilization.” Williams via Dandelion Salad
Mr. Williams’ histrionics aside, he doesn’t seem to understand much of the history he’s writing about past or “way past”
Here’s a little info for those around who care about facts:
Met Office reveals “no significant warming between Aug 2012 – Jan 1997” (16 years) . That’s the Met Office by the way, not some conspiracy theory site or Exxon Mobil… that’s 16 years of no increase in global temperatures even when using their 3,000 hand picked monitors. 16 years folks. That’s the same amount of time the temps rose from 1980-1996 just so you know…
When it comes to this weak storm being some kind of “monster” that we have never seen the likes of in the “stable” 10,000 years prior, again, history doesn’t seem to be served by Mr. Williams and his breathless call to action before the very “fabric” of our world is torn asunder;
- The Great Hurricane of 1780 in mid October of that year – Made landfall at 200 miles per hour. Killed 22,000 people
- Galveston Hurricane of 1900 Sept. 8 – Made landfall at over 145 miles per hour. Killed between 6,000 – 12,000 people
- Dominican Republic Hurricane of 1930 Sept. 3 – Made landfall as a Cat 4 – killed between 2,000 and 8,000
And here, just for the fun of it… here’s a look at the “stability” Mr. Williams is talking about: here are some “Frankenstorms” that actually made landfall as hurricanes and actually killed a bunch of people… many, most, long before the “global warming” period of 1980-1996…
| Deathssource | Name | year |
|---|---|---|
| 27,500+ | Great Hurricane of 1780 | 1780 |
| 18,974 – 21,000 | Hurricane Mitch | 1998 |
| 8,000 – 12,000 | “Galveston” Hurricane | 1900 |
| 8,000 – 10,000 | Hurricane Fifi | 1974 |
| 2,000 – 8,000 | “Dominican Republic” Hurricane | 1930 |
| 7,186 – 8,000 | Hurricane Flora | 1963 |
| 6,000+ | Pointe-à-Pitre Bay Hurricane | 1776 |
| 4,000 – 4,163+ | “Newfoundland” Hurricane | 1775 |
| 4,000 | “Monterrey” Hurricane | 1909 |
| 4,075+ | “Okeechobee” Hurricane | 1928 |
| 3,433+ | Hurricane “San Ciriaco” | 1899 |
| 2,500 – 3,107 | “Cuba” Hurricane | 1932 |
| 3,037 | Hurricane Jeanne | 2004 |
| 3,000+ | “Central Atlantic” Hurricane | 1782 |
| 3,000+ | “Martinique” Hurricane | 1813 |
| 2,000 – 3,000 | “Central America” Hurricane | 1934 |
| 30 – 3,000 | “Cuba” Hurricane | 1791 |
| 1,500 – 2,500 | “Barbados” Hurricane | 1831 |
| 1,500 – 2,500 | “Belize” Hurricane | 1931 |
| 1,168 – 2,150 | “Caribbean” Hurricane | 1935 |
| 2,063+ | Hurricane David | 1979 |
| 2,000+ | Florida Hurricane | 1781 |
| 1,000 – 2,500 | Sea Islands Hurricane | 1893 |
| 2,000 | Gulf of Mexico Hurricane | 1780 |
| 1,800 – 2,000 | 1893 Chenier Caminanda Hurricane | 1893 |
| 136 – 2,000 | Hurricane San Marcos | 1870 |
| up to 2,000 | Caribbean Hurricane | 1666 |
| 1,836+ | Hurricane Katrina | 2005 |
| 1,662+ | Hurricane Stan | 2005 |
| 1,600 | Martinique Hurricane | 1767 |
| 1,500 | Mexico Hurricane | 1909 |
| up to 1,500 | Cuba and Florida Hurricane | 1644 |
| 372 – 1,300+ | Caribbean Hurricane | 1824 |
| 1,300 | Nicaragua Hurricane | 1605 |
| 1,145 | Hurricane Gordon | 1994 |
| 42 – 1,090 | Jamaica and Cuba Hurricane | 1780 |
| 1,090 | Straits of Florida Hurricane | 1622 |
| 1,000+ | Gulf of Mexico Hurricane | 1590 |
| 1,000+ | Barbados Hurricane | 1694 |
| 1,000 – 2,500 | Bahamas Hurricane | 1715 |
| 43 – 1,000 | Havana Hurricane | 1768 |
| 1,000 | Veracruz Hurricane | 1601 |
| 600 – 1,200 | Hurricane Hazel | 1954 |
| 1,000 | Hurricane Inez | 1966 |
These are just the recorded Atlantic storms which took over a thousand lives. There have been bigger and more powerful certainly long before and after Williams’ 1% began to “conjure” up these storms.
You would think that Dandelion Salad would do a little research before putting something like this story on their site.
Filed under: Hurrican Sandy Hype, Scott Creighton
Ah, the great old feeling of crushing the overly dramatic repetitions of ridiculous myths…
Fear, lies and bullshit from the leftist and their de-christianized end times fantasy. FEMA now gets billions more and more restrictions on ppls rights is the only outcome.
Strange things are going on in the world of physics. It was always assumed that every radioactive isotope had a constant decay rate. But some scientists and engineers who were not even doing theoretical physics, but merely looking for the best isotopes for use in atomic clocks (vital to many instruments, such as GPS satellites) inadvertently found that the rates of radioactive decay vary over time. And they increase just prior to solar coronal mass ejections. So something very odd is happening with the “weak force” that causes these decays. Neutrino showers? Dark matter clouds? They just don’t know. About 2/3rds of the heat generated in the earth’s core is estimated to be caused by radio-active decay. So we could be entering a period of “deep” global warming. This would cause water evaporation, and while water vapor is a most powerful “greenhouse gas,” actual clouds block sunlight, causing extreme cooling.
There are also human-caused effects. As we pump oil and gas out of the deep earth (and these are naturally radio-active, by the way) we replace them with water to prevent earthquakes, sink-holes, etc. Water is a nuclear “moderator,” which slows fast neutrons down to a speed at which they can interact with uranium and thorium, causing these elements to go semi-critical, as they do in our nuclear reactors, and thus to generate vast amounts of heat and biologically available isotopes.
In general, we seem to be experiencing a more-or-less global increase in Geo-thermal temperature, with ice melting at the poles (in many locations), and even on mountain tops.
Meteorologists have never recorded a weather event like Sandy before. The normally persistent (98% of the time) low pressure area in the North Atlantic was missing, and was replaced by a high pressure dome which pushed Sandy over the land (in the Pennsylvania to NYC region) directly into a cold front (Nor-Easter). So no one could predict what would happen. The storm turned out to be very peculiar, but not very destructive. Lower Manhattan and New Jersey experienced significant flooding. But worst of all, at least four nuclear reactors were affected. Something has gone very wrong at the Oyster Creek plant in NJ, and it is at emergency level two (four is the highest), and the regulators tend to low-ball these ratings. So I am keeping an eye on that.
blues, Does this mean that the earth is a giant nuclear motor that operates natural functions … and we are reducing it’s energy (oil) and by pumping in water, we are setting up a nuclear melt down for earth?
By increasing cloud coverage….. the earth is trying to ‘heal’ it self by cooling off ?
All kinds of safety features built into our natural world but mankind is ignoring all and plundering everything… heading for disaster?
The day before the hurricane hit, there was this headline in NYC: Back in business! Statue of Liberty reopens to public Sunday – NYPOST.com. A Federally funded $30 million renovation.
The economic losses are going to be gigantic. One of the biggest taxpaying machines in the US is NYC. This sad state of affairs should frighten every USAins to the core. The ripple effect of all this will, like the tidal surge, flow dramatically to every community in the US.
According to the celestial alignments and the Mayan Ninth Wave this was a devastating event, there is still a catastrophic event still to come before the winter solstice.
hans, you and blues are scaring me!