Twitter / billmckibben: 33,000 evacuated, 11 dead
How about ignorance and superstition levels which have never been achieved before?
July 1, 1938
Japan has passed through two days of floods, tornadoes and earthquakes, whilst the rainfall has been the heaviest in living memory. The death roll is now over 100.
01 Jul 1938 – FLOOD AND TEMPEST WREAK HAVOC IN JAPAN TOKYO, Th…
04 Jul 1932 – STORM SWEEPS JAPAN. BIG DEATH ROLL FEARED. Thous…
02 Jul 1935 – FLOOD WATER IN JAPAN MUCH DAMAGE IN TOKYO TOKYO,…
h/t to Marc Morano
Of course this rainfall has “…never been experienced before.” As the moisture content evaporated into water vapor within the last month or so, and condensed back into cloud droplets even more recently, it COULD NOT have been experienced before. Of course, volume, amounts, and coverage area are curiously omitted, just in case you wanted to make real comparisons!
We never had weather like this before, at least since the last time it happened before.
A comment from the dailymail: Climates are SHIFTING, that’s all. It’s tied to the shifting poles and is perfectly normal. Some places are getting colder, some are getting hotter…. [This is how it has always been.] The only difference is that now we have a global network of conspiring leftists in positions of power who manipulate everything to further their own agenda, which means that we in Western countries will be ruthlessly and relentlessly plied with guilt-trips until we completely surrender our lands to the poor refugee hordes of the Third World, and that will be the end of that.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2171434/Satellite-study-Asian-mountains-glaciers-NOT-melting–actually-gaining-new-ice.html
I don’t normally bother with this kind of rubbish, but there are exceptions. I live in Japan, and have been here for 8 years. We are currently in the wet season. In the south, rainfall rates of 50mm per hour are annual events. My partner concurs (we are 60, she is Japanese). Every year, somewhere, there are floods and landslides.
Soon we will be in summer. After summer will come the typhoon season. In the typhoon season, some areas will recieve 50-100cm of rain in 2-3 days. There will be floods, landslides and deaths.
McKibben is the lowest form of rent-seeking pond life, parading willful ignorance to score political points from disaster and death.
Why don’t you tweet him with the correct information?
Three reasons. 1) I’m too old to take any interest in social media stuff. 2) I need to look after my blood pressure if I’m going to continue to drive my car and take overseas holidays into my 80’s. 3) Attempting to demonstrate to wilfully blind morons where they are self-evidently wrong is a waste of energy.
I am (we are) very big on not wasting energy, because that costs money which we prefer to spend on our preference (travel) rather than tax.