It has been eight years since the US was hit by a major hurricane, but back during the low CO2 years of 1954-1955 the US was hit by five major hurricanes within fourteen months.
Gettysburg Times – Google News Archive Search
The Deseret News – Google News Archive Search
Spokane Daily Chronicle – Google News Archive Search
Lakeland Ledger – Google News Archive Search
Could you only imagine the media hysteria and all out bed wetting there would be with alarmists if anything similar happened now? We have actually had a very tranquil spell of weather.
Stop the press!!! Thunderstorm out in the Atlantic….name it quickly!!
Yes, if some drunken sailor reports a 30 kt. wind anywhere in the Atlantic and there is a cloud or two in the vicinity, that qualifies as a named storm.
If you go here: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/E11.html
A division of NOAA says we were hit by a major hurricane (must be Sandy) in 2012.
If you look closer it says there were 0 major hurricanes in 2012.
If you look at the column “years” and the row “USA landfalling major hurricanes” where they intersect it says “many, last 2012”
The last year with 0 major landfalling hurricanes was 2012
As an aside, during that time frame (1950s) industrial smokestacks were boiling out CO2, lots of homes were still heated with coal burning furnaces (both my grandparents houses to name two), and cars burned leaded gasoline. Long before there was a “green movement”, the CO2 levels were lower than today. Hmm ….
They stopped naming them all for girls. They got milder. Causation, or just correlation?
This collection of articles on past “climate change” are wonderful. You should organize them and publish them in a annotated book. On each double-page spread, take one example of today’s hype (i.e., the Boulder floods and all the media hyperbole) and juxtapose it against historical reality.
If I have my choice, I would rather face a major hurricane, rather than a major hurrycon. The latter blows harder, lasts longer, and leaves no part of our once great country untouched.