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WHEN Superstorm Sandy hit the east coast of the US on October 29, it not only flooded the New York City subway and became the most important factor for 15 per cent of US voters in the presidential election a week later.

It also resurrected the unwarranted claim that global warming was to blame for such events, together with the morally irresponsible argument that we should help future hurricane victims by cutting CO2 emissions.

Sandy underscored a fundamental question for all parts of the world that are affected by hurricanes. If we want to reduce hurricane damage, should we focus primarily on a very cheap solution that would enable us to handle storm surges much better within a few years? Or should we pursue an incredibly expensive solution that would require almost 100 years to avoid 9mm of 7.5m surges?

The morally defensible answer is clear, and it has nothing to do with immediate reductions in CO2 emissions.

Simple solutions to Superstorm Sandy | The Australian

h/t to Tom Nelson

Man U was given an extra minute of Fergie Time by the referee in their failed effort to obtain a point against Norwich yesterday, but even that didn’t help.

Until about ten years ago, NASA showed the US on an 80 year long cooling trend, with the three hottest years being in the 1920s and 1930s. They have deleted the raw data from their website and blocked archiving, but John Daly captured it. It was originally located at this link :

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/data/update/gistemp/graphs/FigD.txt

and can now be seen here :

http://web.archive.org/web/20120124014257/http://www.john-daly.com/usatemps.006

NASA has since rewritten US history and shows the same period warming – with 1998 as the hottest year.

data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/Fig.D.txt

James Hansen wrote this in 1999, before he decided to alter US history :

Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. The drought of 1999 covered a smaller area than the 1988 drought, when the Mississippi almost dried up. And 1988 was a temporary inconvenience as compared with repeated droughts during the 1930s “Dust Bowl” that caused an exodus from the prairies, as chronicled in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.

in the U.S. there has been little temperature change in the past 50 years, the time of rapidly increasing greenhouse gases — in fact, there was a slight cooling throughout much of the country

NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Whither U.S. Climate?

This sort of honest assessment was no use for obtaining funding or achieving radical left wing political goals, so Hansen created a hockey stick of adjustments to cool the past and warm the present.

The current version of the US temperature record from NOAA and NASA is a complete fraud, and fundamentally misrepresents changes to the US climate.

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The Thanksgiving day forecast at the Greenland meltdown is -69F. Keep your Prius parked in that weather.

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Alaska is facing record cold this Thanksgiving. Looks like your electric car probably won’t start for Black Friday shopping, but at least you won’t be causing dirty weather.

Weather Forecast Fairbanks, AK | Fairbanks Weather | Wunderground

Arizona implements sensible gun control, after recent mass shootings by left wing drug abusers.

Arizona Gun Store: If You Voted For Barack Obama, “Turn Around and Leave” – Daniel Doherty

?A classmate of the man accused of shooting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords this morning describes him as “left wing” and a “pot head” in a series of posts on Twitter this afternoon.

 Phoenix – News – Valley Fever

h/t to Dave G

Sally Nightingale has asked David Cameron for “five minutes of his time” in return for her husband Danny’s 17 years of service in the Army.

Sgt Nightingale, 37, is serving an 18-month sentence for possession of a firearm after a pistol given to him by Iraqi forces he trained was found in a locked box in his Army accommodation while he was on tour.

The SAS sniper had forgotten about its existence because of brain damage caused when he collapsed during an endurance sport event in which he was taking part to raise funds for the families of dead and injured SAS soldiers.

In a letter, reproduced below, Mrs Nightingale pleads with the Mr Cameron not to “ignore” her family “in the hour of our greatest need” and urges him to intervene directly into her husband’s case.

Wife of jailed SAS hero appeals to Prime Minister for help – Telegraph

George Washington saw three of the ten deadliest Atlantic Hurricanes, including the 22,000 casualties in 1780.

List of deadliest Atlantic hurricanes – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Australia suffered either flood or drought nearly continuously during the 18th and 19th centuries, when CO2 was at pre-industrial levels. Al Gore promises a return to those days of extreme weather if we simply wreck the economy and give up our freedom.

13 Oct 1868 – THE CLIMATE OF AUSTRALIA.