More people died in September 8, 1900 Galveston Hurricane than in all US hurricanes combined since then. A storm surge of 15 feet washed the city away and killed 10,000 people.
12 Sep 1900, Page 1 – The Brooklyn Daily Eagle at Newspapers.com
CO2 was at a very safe 300 PPM at the time.
Common alarmist ploys when confronted with this kind of thing:
* Ignore it
* Yell “d*nier!” and/or proclaim that you’re in the pay of “big oil”
* Adjust the figures down
* Claim that this event was “natural”, and “explain” that similar latter day events are “caused by human activities”, because well, humans have been active
* Claim that similar latter day events are “happening more often”, either without providing evidence of it, or by ignoring events like this
* Claim that this event was also “caused by human activities”
..or combinations of all of the above