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Peak sustained surface winds in Camille were measured at 190 MPH, before the gauge broke. Estimates have it over 200 MPH.

Camille came days after the first Moon landing, and history was largely lost in the euphoria.

Many people died in the Philippines this week in a storm, which is cynically and quite expectedly being used to push the global warming agenda.

It is important that the remaining seven billion people on Earth don’t suffer loss of cheap energy, economic prosperity and freedom as a result of unscrupulous snake oil salesmen taking advantage of the good nature of decent people.

Weather officials said Haiyan had sustained winds of 147 mph with gusts of 170 mph when it made landfall. By those measurements, Haiyan would be comparable to a strong Category 4 hurricane in the U.S., nearly in the top category, a 5.

Its winds were among the strongest ever recorded

Thousands likely dead after Philippines typhoon | Fox News

The area of ice more than three years old, is 221% of what it was in week 36, 2009.

Typhoon Haiyan the biggest yet as world’s tropical storms gather force | World news | theguardian.com

Their earlier articles making those bogus claims have been hammered down in the comments section, so they are now not permitting comments.

Super Typhoon Haiyan may contain evidence of global warming, JPL scientist says

Super Typhoon Haiyan, which is slamming its way into record books with unprecedented winds and rain across the Philippines, may contain signs of global warming, Jet Propulsion Laboratory climatologist Bill Patzert said.

“The fingerprint is very small, if at all,” he said. “If the winds are 200 mph, global warming might have contributed 5 mph to that 200 mph.

Super Typhoon Haiyan may contain evidence of global warming, JPL scientist says

Neither the winds nor the rain were anywhere close to unprecedented, and the link to global warming was refuted by the climatologist quoted in the article. How bad can journalism get?

In California, the police would simply murder the child on the spot – and then whitewash it.

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Before the typhoon made landfall, some international forecasters were estimating wind speeds at 195 m.p.h., which would have meant the storm would hit with winds among the strongest recorded. But local forecasters later disputed those estimates. “Some of the reports of wind speeds were exaggerated,” Mr. Paciente said.

The Philippine weather agency measured winds on the eastern edge of the country at about 150 m.p.h., he said, with some tracking stations recording speeds as low as 100 m.p.h.

A Powerful Typhoon Speeds Across the Philippines – NYTimes.com