Hansen tells us that the climate was stable in the past, before man started tinkering with it. Jeff Masters tells us that the pleasant weather of spring 2012 was the most extreme weather the US has ever experienced.
April 14, 1935 dawned as a beautiful spring Sunday across the Plains of Colorado and Kansas southward into Texas.
Residents of the Plains had been beleaguered for four years of dust storms as drought gripped the region. Farmers continued to plow their land, betting that the rains would return. They had settled on the Plains during a rainy cycle in the early 1900s. With plentiful rains and mechanized tractors, they had planted millions of acres of wheat, using techniques that had been successful in New England.
But the summer of 1931 was rainless and hot. The bountiful wheat crops that had set records in previous years suddenly withered to nothing. By 1934, farmers were losing everything.
On this Sunday morning, people were glad to have a day of blue skies. They went to church, hung our laundry and did other chores. By mid-afternoon, residents saw an ominous sight on the northwestern horizon. A low, black cloud sweeping across the Plains approaching quickly.
Many people did not have time to escape the onrushing dust cloud. Many were trapped in their automobiles as they struggled to drive with visibilities reduced to zero in the blinding dust. Daylight was turned to darkness as the black clouds thousands of feet high engulfed entire towns with millions of tons of black topsoil blown from the unprotected land.
There was no escaping the dust. It was everywhere. People hung wet sheets across their windows and doors to prevent the dust from entering their homes. Grit was in food. Thousands contracted pneumonia as they breathed in huge quantities of the choking dust. Many people thought it was the end of the world.
The “black blizzard” of April 14, 1935 was the worst dust storm of the Dust Bowl Era of the 1930s. The great quantities of black dust blew all the way to Washington, D.C., preventing politicians from ignoring the plight of the Plains’ farmers as gritty clouds hung over the Capitol City.
A wonderful book about the dust bowl era is “The Worst Hard Time.”
http://www.amazon.com/The-Worst-Hard-Time-Survived/dp/061834697X
In the 1950’s historians finally recognized that climate fluctuated enough during the Holocene to affect civilization. The distinguished historian Neville Brown calls this study Historical Climatology. Generally it seems that warmists are ignorant about this. When they apply themselves to these studies they deny the magnitude of these fluctuations.
Just to help with that, 2 paper have just come out that show solar activity was the most probable cause of climate fluctuations during the Holocene.
http://hol.sagepub.com/content/22/6/705
and
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1460.html
Doubtless both papers will be derided by the true believers.
In a surprise find, I have uncovered hard video evidence of fearless climate scientists exploring the inhospitable climate of the future, after CO2 emissions have devastated the Earth.
Lo and behold:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=PpJwKMnBS0E#t=788s
Obviously required viewing for alarmists – … regrettably, it was man’s folly …