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In 2008, a cyclone killed 130,000 people in Myanmar and was barely mentioned by the press. That was in the days of “global warming”

Cyclone Nargis made landfall in Myanmar on Friday, 2 May 2008, sending a storm surge 40 kilometers up the densely populated Irrawaddy delta, causing catastrophic destruction and at least 138,000 fatalities. The Labutta Township alone was reported to have 80,000 dead, with about 10,000 more deaths in Bogale.

Cyclone Nargis – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

But now that global warming is officially “paused” – the climate racketeering team has changed the dialogue to try to convince the public that bad weather never happened before.

One of the favorite tricks of climate alarmists is to use increasing disaster costs as an indication of a “worsening climate.” This 2007 NOAA document explains why the metric is useless and misleading.

Continued coastal growth and inflation will almost certainly result in every future major landfalling hurricane (and even weaker hurricanes and tropical storms) replacing one of the
current costliest hurricanes.

web.archive.org/web/20070704105347/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/NWS-TPC-5.pdf

There have been 12 cyclones with death counts greater than 100,000 in recorded history. Almost half of them occurred during the 19th century. The two deadliest cyclones of the 20th century occurred during the 1970’s, and were blamed by climatologists on global cooling at the time.

 

Deadliest World Tropical Cyclones | Weather Underground

US hurricane strikes also peaked during the 19th century

HURDAT Re-analysis Chronological List of All Hurricanes

People who claim that hurricanes are getting worse – have absolutely no clue what they are talking about.

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Weather Extremes : Cyclone Phailin | Weather Underground

Barrier Miner  Monday 18 February 1952

Polar Ice Caps Melt

New York, Sunday  Polar Icecaps were melting at an astonishing rate, Dr. W. S Carlson said. The water from them threatened to swamp seaports by raising ocean levels, he added.  Dr. Carlson, president of the University of Vermont, is an expert on the Arctic. …..

“The glaciers of Norway and Alaska are only half the size they were 50 years ago” he added.

“The temperature around Spitsbergen has been so modified that the time the sea is free of ice has lengthened from three to eight months of the year.”

18 Feb 1952 – Polar Ice Caps Melt

The beach is much wider now than it was in the 1950’s, and there is no indication of any sea level rise over the last 60 years at Miami Beach.

1950’s

Aerial Photo of Miami Beach, ca. 1950’s.

Claims that Florida is drowning are complete nonsense, spread by snake oil salesmen.

Satellites show that sea level is rising very slowly around Florida, about 1 mm/year, or four inches per century.

ssh_anomaly.nc:

Twitter / TheDailyClimate: fm @MiamiHerald Prepping for …

Index of /pub/data/ghcn/daily/hcn/

There are 863 US HCN stations which have been continuously active since at least 1930. The six hottest years (measured by number of all-time daily records at those stations) all came during the 1930’s.

Note that 2012 looks like it was a hot year, but that was primarily due to a lot mild springtime temperatures – rather than summer heat.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/

15 Oct 1935 – FLOODS IN CHINA THOUSANDS OF LIVES LOST REFUGEES…

12 Apr 1935 – DUST BLAST AGAIN SWEEPS MID-WEST U.S.A. Last Hop…

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2392462?

17 Jan 1935 – COLD IN INDIA. UNPRECEDENTED CONDITIONS. Hundred…

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/29178681?

04 Jan 1935 – WINTER HEAT WAVE IN BRITAIN (Special to “The Min…

The Sydney Morning Herald  Tuesday 2 July 1935

HEAT-WAVE IN FRANCE.

LONDON, July 1.

A heat wave in France, particularly in the south, caused hundreds of cases of sunstroke. The shade temperature at Toulon was 104 degrees and at Montpellier 108 degrees. A number of bathers were drowned.

02 Jul 1935 – HEAT-WAVE IN FRANCE. LONDON, July 1.

29 Mar 1935 – CAUGHT IN DROUGHT CLUTCHES. Mountainous Columns …

06 Jul 1935 – HEAT-WAVE IN ITALY ROME, July 5.