Real Climate Science

If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.

Bonus question : which one still believes it?

Philippine president Benigno Aquino III said local officials exaggerated the likely death toll from typhoon Haiyan, which he put at between 2,000 and 2,500. Initial estimates from officials in the hardest-hit Leyte province had been 10,000 dead or more.

Typhoon Haiyan: UN launches $300m appeal – live updates | World news | theguardian.com

The 195 MPH winds were exaggerated by 30%. The storm surge was exaggerated by 120% and the death toll was exaggerated by 300%.

Nothing about this storm was record breaking, but that won’t stop the press, politicians and climate alarmists from lying about it for as long as they can use it to their advantage.

Jeff Masters rushed to press that Yolanda had the highest wind speeds ever at landfall, before there was any actual surface data available.  It turned out that he exaggerated the wind speeds by more than 30%.

His claimed basis was satellite approximations made at altitude hours earlier over open water. Wind speeds are always going to be higher above the surface -because there is less friction. And of course we don’t have any comparable data for storms like Camille in 1969.

The only apples to apples comparison we can make is that Camille had surface measurements in excess of 190 MPH, and Yolanda was below 150 MPH.

So why did Masters do it? The only way to blame this storm on global warming was to make it a record. Once the legend was created, it propagated and will stay out there for at least a year before the dust settles.

NASA motto : If the data doesn’t match your theory, simply change the data.

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Published: November 28, 1897

Copyright © The New York Times

THOUSANDS OF LIVES LOST.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Nov. 27.—The typhoon which swept over the Philippine Islands on Oct. 6 was the cause of one of the worst disasters reported from the Southern Ocean In many years- Thousands of lives were lost, among those who perished being many Europeans, and the damage to property was something appalling.

The difficulty of getting news from the Islands is great at any time, and owing to the remoteness of some of the provinces visited by the hurricane full details of the 1st of November. The steamer Gaelic,  from the Orient to-day, brought letters and papers which contain accounts of the ravages of the tidal wave and the winds. Several towns were swept or blown away. Fully 400 Europeans were drowned, and it is estimated that 6,000 natives perished.

THOUSANDS OF LIVES LOST. – Many Vessels Wrecked and Property Worth Millions Destroyed in Typhoon-Swept Philippines. – View Article – NYTimes.com

The Coming Revelation Of The ‘Global Warming’ Fraud Resembles The Obamacare Lie – Forbes

There will be winners and losers – Jay Carney

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Australia threw out their lunatic, and has returned to sanity. Can the US do the same?

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14 Sep 1900 – The Texas Hurricane. A GRIM DEATH ROLL. 8,000 LI…

DAVAO CITY mayor Rodrigo Duterte ordered the team he sent to Yolanda-ravaged Leyte to shoot whoever will stop the convoy he sent before reaching the intended destinations.

Duterte orders Davao Yolanda relief team to shoot looters – Philippine Times of Southern Nevada | Philippine Times of Southern Nevada

195 MPH is down to the 140 range, and the 40 foot storm surge is down to 13 feet. The death count was also exaggerated.

But in Tacloban, a city of 220,000 wrapped around a horseshoe-shaped bay, the water overflowed from the bay in all directions. It flooded practically everything in sight with fast-moving torrents as the sea level rose as much as four meters, or 13 feet. Winds exceeding 140 miles an hour tore away the roofs and windows that withstood the walls of water.

Mr. Romualdez said that he had personally lost everything, including his house. But he suggested that reports of damage to his own city might have been exaggerated, saying that only a couple hundred deaths had been confirmed by the authorities. Some officials have estimated that as many as 10,000 people died in Tacloban

Anger Rising Over Conditions in Ravaged Philippine City – NYTimes.com

The lies served their purpose however. Jeff Masters has created a legend that this was the largest storm in history, and it was mankind’s fault. Once progressives have latched on to a lie, they never let go of it.

h/t to Kent Clizbe