Eric Holthaus blames damage from a cyclone on global warming
Just like 1898 and 1780.
Published: November 13, 1898
THE WEST INDIAN STORM
Results in the Island of St. Vincent Worse Than Reported.WHOLE COUNTRY SWEPT BARE
Distress of the People Described as • Exceeding That Caused by the Great Famine in India.KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov. 2.—The results of calm investigation have proved conclusively that so far from being exaggerated the first reports of the destruction wrought by the cyclone at St. Vincent were rather short of the actual facts. The island was literally swept absolutely bare of vegetation, the experience of 1780 being repeated, but the full extent of the devastation was not at first realized, owing to the difficulty of communication through the destruction of the roads and the coastal shipping.
The Governor of the Windward Islands has now sent out an appeal to the neighboring islands stating the facts, and asking that roots, slips, and seeds of potatoes, cassava, yams, peas, and ‘other economic plants be forwarded as soon as possible to enable cultivation to be restored. His Excellency declares in a brief but significant descriptive paragraph that the whole aspect of the landscape has been changed. Instead of the pervading green common to all tropical prospects, it is now a uniform dirty brown color, only relieved by long white poles—the decapitated columns of palm and cocoanut trees. Nothing in the way of vegetation escaped the sweep of the wind and the subsequent scouring out by the deluge of water, and the island is practically a desert.
Perhaps the most Impressive feature, the Governor adds, is the absolute stillness that prevails not only through the absence of the familiar rustle of vegetation as the trade wind sweeps over it, but-also because of the absence of animal and even insect life. Birds, lizards, beetles, snakes, and, in fact, every form of animal life, seems to have been blown away or drowned out.
Copyright © The New York Times
Is Eric shameless, ignorant, or both?
Tell Eric to closely monitor that island, it could capsize at any moment!
It has happened before…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2236952/Phantom-island-shown-Google-Earth-does-exist-Australian-scientists-discover-outcrop-Pacific-voyage.html
Both
They should be happy that it’s not Global Warming. But they seem VERY upset when you inform them of the good news. Almost as if they want the planet to be doomed. Like they have another agenda or something.
“I’d like the world to warm up quicker.” -Phil Jones, Climategate Email (to Ben Santer 1/10/2008 http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php?file=3408.txt)
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” -Maurice Strong, ex UNEP Director
“We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster… to bomb us into the stone age, where we might live like Indians.” -Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Catalogue
You forgot the most significant ones.
“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.” – Ted Turner, founder of CNN and founder of the UN Foundation.
Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation said “We’ve got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.”
This is the same Timothy Wirth who organized the 1988 Senate hearing at which James Hansen addressed global warming. Wirth led the U.S. negotiating team at the Kyoto Summit.
These are his words about how he scammed Congress:
Wirth is worthless. “We have to undertake an aggressive program to go after those who are among the deniers.” -the worthless Tim Wirth, 2011
As far as the Jane Fonda loving Ted Turner, add this to the pot: “Global warming will kill most of us, and turn the rest of us into cannibals.” -Ted Turner
Eric Simpson says: “Wirth is worthless…”
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Actually he is not worthless. Wirth was very useful to those betraying Main Street America. Wirth and the other traitors, Hansen, Gore and Clinton got the US Congress to ratify the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in 21/03/94. It was signed 12/06/92.
Remember Dr Happer was fired by Al Gore when Clinton was trying to get that UN treaty ratified.
Happer has since shown the ‘physics’ that is the basis for the temperature rise vs CO2 doubling is WRONG based on actual observations.
So that UN treaty was signed BASED ON LIES FROM TRAITORS! It also is proof that Al Gore was well aware that CAGW was a scam and he and Obummer and Maurice Strong colluded to scam the public via the Chicago Climate Exchange, just as he and Maurice Strong colluded to scam the US government and investor in the matter of Molten Metals Technology.
Obama’s involvement in Chicago Climate Exchange—the rest of the story
Rosa Koire, a California bureaucrat, explains exactly what Ted Turner means. (Remember Turner is also behind the Pleistocene Rewilding of the USA.)
You can read the entire essay and do as I have done, link what you are seeing happening now to its ultimate outcome.
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Since Rosa is a Flaming Liberal Democrat (her discription) maybe a copy of her essay with a link to articles showing the implementation of each idea might wake up a few Obamabot relatives.
Health care will be minimal … Right. With Obamacare.
Perhaps this man’s excessive zeal has rendered him blind to the events of the past and even the present. A look at the many videos posted at YouTube indicate that Cyclone Pam might not really have been a Cat 5 storm when it struck Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides). Much of the footage reveals the more substantially built structures were left nearly untouched while a good number of trees, including the coconuts, had still or most all their leaves.
I also agree and the twiting photos are enhanced photoshopping. look at some photos now posted and it does not look the same as above.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-20/tropical-cyclone-pam-hmas-tobruk-sent-vanuatu/6334450
http://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/weather/2015/03/19/cyclone-pam-slams-vanuatu/24755011/
Stories of Hurricanes and building an A-frame structure to survive in have been handed down for centuries. Eric is shameless. Reuters has a story which says this, “Many villages are built further back from the shore to avoid storm surges and tsunamis, and most have at least one sturdy building to retreat to. Even the spreading roots of banyan trees that have survived centuries of storms are also sometimes used as shelter if houses are destroyed.”
“Hurricanes or cyclones are not a new thing, since when people started living in these islands maybe about 5,000 years ago this type of event occurs every year,” said Natuman. ( Prime Minister Joe Natuman)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/03/19/uk-weather-vanuatu-cyclone-idUKKBN0MF08N20150319
Mindless seems a little generous.
It will be interesting to see how quickly nature gets to work restoring those islands to their original state.
My prediction is : “Prepare to be amazed”
Absolutely. Vegetation will be looking fairly healthy within a month or so.
Yes, This is no worse than a spring thaw followed by a hard freeze wiping out the tree buds just flowering and leafing in the USA. Actually it is a heck of a lot less dangerous.
The reason the homes are flimsy is the people know these storms come regularly so why put a lot of energy and material into something that will probably not withstand the storm? Better to build one very sturdy A frame for each village and rebuild a flimsy structure after the storm passes. After all this is the tropics where you are not going to freeze to death. Roofs collapsing in Japan and Buffalo NY are much more devastating and dangerous
So where was Eric Holthaus when the Blizzards were collapsing Japanese roofs???
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Has ANY US Media carried these stories?
Japan has been plastered with snowstorm after snowstorm with the heavy snowfall causing some buildings to collapse. Japan snowfall levels the last two winters are far greater than in previous years.
There was a Heavy Snowfall Dec. 4 The city of Nayoro was buried in 70 cm (27 inches) of snow, while 46 cm (18 inches) fell in Horokanai and 40 cm (16 inches) in Otaru. By the 18th of December 2014, the Niigata Prefecture Tsunan had a snow height of 207 cm (6 ft – 8 inches), The town of Nagano Nozawaonsen got about six feet of snow and Gunma Minakami got about five feet, seven inches of snow. At least eleven people had died as a result of heavy snowfall. Over 20,000 homes were without electricity.
Last spring also saw record snowfall amounts with the snowstorm in January leaving 900 injured and at least one dead. A record breaking snowstorm in mid February (2013) passing through Tokyo left hundreds of people have to be evacuated from their homes, roofs collapsing, hundreds injured, and at least 13 dead. Another storm hitting at the end of February causing damage or destruction of 14,099 vinyl greenhouses costs totaling more than ¥50 billion in Tokyo and four other prefectures.
The winter was not done with Japan as another storm hit on the Spring Equinox leaving a record snowfall for March (2013) of 115 cm (45 inches) in Nemuro, Hokkaido. Hokkaido, Aomori, Niigata and Nagano prefectures all had unseasonably cold weather. Hachinohe in Aomori saw 40 cms (16 inches) of snow.
According to one story 120 households in Tokushima were cut off by snow. I mentioned this to my Husband and he was very surprised that south central Japan had got plastered. Tokushima (lat. 34.0° N) is mild semi-tropical sort of like South Carolina (lat. 34.0° N) but not as hot.
Snowstorms have continued to plaster Japan. Around Christmas 2014, the town of Tsunan saw about six feet, eight inches of snow. The town of Nagano Nozawaonsen got about six feet of snow and Gunma Minakami got about five feet, seven inches of snow last week. Another storm hit in mid January and on 2 Mar 2015 “Weather officials warned of strong winds, significant snowfall and strong waves in the region, while the low pressure system approaches, DPA reported. The Meteorological Agency predicted snow accumulation up to 80 centimeters in parts of the island in a period of 24 hours.’
Information from: http://iceagenow.info/?s=japan
This BS is just going to get worse as more mindless and blind followers jump on the bandwagon. Just wait until a major Hurricane hits Florida.
Lets pray Mother Nature holds off on the hurricanes for another two years while contineing to plaster the USA and the EU with blizzards.
Has he had his vasectomy yet?
Oh. Oops. Apparently not. Bummer, there goes his carbon footprint.
Shameless *and* ignorant.
Still waiting for alarmists to conclusively prove the difference between this one and the others is due to humans.
If the whole scam wasn’t centred around the facade of “saving the world from ourselves”, the msm would be jumping down their throats for an explanation; a la chasing down scam artists who defraud regular Joes for things like bogus investments.
The integrity of many left the planet somewhere around the early 80’s.
It seems to me there are a lot egos at play. Guys like Eric , because of the ease of communicating via the various social media platforms just “spout off” for the sake of it and the more outrageous the better for their ego.
Everytime a weather event happens anywhere in the world, it is always a result of “climate change.” I wonder what caused weather events before the term “climate change” was invented?
Witches! 🙂
No, Thor, Odin, Hera, Frigg, Freyja……. et al..
Those were the days….
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And climate science™ seems to be going back to them !!!
I wonder what caused weather events before the term “climate change” was invented?
“global warming”
“I wonder what caused weather events before the term “climate change” was invented?”
Since this a very old thing, blaming weather on something, or somebody, there is a long list of things. In the fifties atomic bomb testing and cloud seeding were popular. In the seventies air pollution. Much earlier, people would blame the sun, and volcanoes.
From: 8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, KS 1895
1. Upon what does climate depend?
Answer? The Sun.
“Answer? The Sun.”
Yeah, and people used to think there was LIA as well. People are so dumb.
Thin non cohesive soil, steep uppermost slopes, excessive tropical rainfall.
Not really that astonishing.
Although the astonishment is astonishing.
I just hope for the people living there that they don’t get the same sort of ‘help’ as the people of Haiti after the earthquake.
what the IPPC say about cyclones and Tornadoes.
Interesting what the IPPC have to say about Tornados-
“There is low confidence in any observed long-term (i.e., 40 years or more) increases in tropical cyclone activity (i.e.,
intensity, frequency, duration), after accounting for past changes in observing capabilities. It is likely that there has been
a poleward shift in the main Northern and Southern Hemisphere extratropical storm tracks. There is low confidence in
observed trends in small spatial-scale phenomena such as tornadoes and hail because of data inhomogeneities and
inadequacies in monitoring systems”
IPCC-
“The uncertainties in the historical tropical cyclone records, the incomplete understanding of the physical
mechanisms linking tropical cyclone metrics to climate change, and the degree of tropical cyclone variability provide
only low confidence for the attribution of any detectable changes in tropical cyclone activity to anthropogenic influences”
ippc-
“Current datasets indicate no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century”
Pacific Island wiped of the face of the earth back in 1905 –
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2564730/The-island-grew-Pacific-isle-disappeared-devastating-typhoon-reappears-100-years-destruction.html
Have to add, it is now growing back and in fine fettle!!!!
“Eric Holthaus blames damage from a cyclone on global warming”
Has no one told the lying fool that there has been no warming for nearly 20 years?
So Holthaus the penisless is also mind less. Makes sense
When we geld our horses, sheep and goats we comment that we have cut off their brains….
Same seems to apply to humans.
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