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Expected sea level rise in the Himalayas for December

The world ends next month, and Bill McKitten has been furiously tweeting that everything in nature is the worst ever and escalating exponentially.  The Mayans warned that this was going to happen.

We should have listened.

10-Day Temperature Outlook

1. Cool the past, warm the present
2. Tell the public that the weather used to be better in the past
3. Tell the public that giving up their freedom and money will make the weather better
4. Steal as much money as you can from the public, and tell them it is for their own good
5. Educate a generation of mindless complicit drones

This message was conceived of and approved by the US government.

1. Would you be willing to buy $10 per gallon gasoline to pretend you are doing something about the climate?
2. Would you be willing to give up 20% of your income to pretend you are doing something about the climate?
3. Would you be willing to live without hot water or electricity in the winter to pretend you are doing something about the climate?
4. Would you be willing to drive a golf cart to pretend you are doing something about the climate?
5. Would you be willing to give up your vacation to pretend you are doing something about the climate?

Grist says that 77% of Americans would answer yes to the questions above.

• A large majority (77%) say global warming should be a “very high” (18%), “high” (25%), or “medium” priority (34%) for the president and Congress. One in four (23%) say it should be a low priority.
• Six in ten Americans (61%) say the U.S. should reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions regardless of what other countries do.
• A large majority of Americans (88%) say the U.S. should make an effort to reduce global warming, even if it has economic costs.

2012: Hot, costly, and ready for action (on climate change) | Grist

Your SUV did this!

The Pittsburgh Press – Google News Archive Search

The party of free love and sexual liberation has now declared sex and love letters to be crimes, in order to protect their messiah.

National Interagency Fire Center

The number of fires in the US this year is lowest in over twenty years, and has nearly dropped in half since 2006.

In 1939 there were 185,000 fires, compared to 50,000 in 2012.

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

Climate experts tell us that 2012 is the worst year ever.

http://news.google.com/newspapers

Primitive, simple-minded people have always believed that bad weather was punishment for the behavior of man. These same people have always been guided by wise men who claim to have an insight into the forces which cause bad weather.

The current crop of primitive simple-minded people believe that they are smarter than previous generations of primitive simple-minded people, because they have computer models which can generate prophecy billions of time faster than ancient simple-minded people.

In Genesis 6:1 we were warned that man’s wickedness would bring a great flood to the Earth, and it has happened.

Keeler: The planet’s speaking — and it’s angry

People: This is your planet speaking: Listen up!

That’s what I feel like screaming as I navigate my way through the aftereffects of Sandy and the nor’easter. The impact on my family — a couple of downed trees, five days without power, a second power loss, and a wary eye on the gasoline gauge — has been negligible compared with what others are suffering: homes destroyed, businesses without products to sell or customers able to buy them, elderly people huddled in the dark and cold, raw sewage backing up into the road and down into basements in Baldwin and cascading into Reynolds Channel from Nassau County’s Bay Park treatment plant.

The other primal scream running through my mind is a message to Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the chief climate change denier in the United States Senate: “Hey, senator, how about buying a house on the South Shore of Long Island?”

The planet’s speaking — and it’s angry – Bob Keeler

The deniers’ unbelief has brought us the great flood. Woe unto thee who deny Mann’s wickedness and believe in the MWP.

 after Hurricane Sandy pushed the issue of climate change back into the national spotlight — California will become the first state to begin requiring a broad range of businesses to reduce their greenhouse gas pollution.

California’s landmark global warming law becomes real this week with first cap-and-trade auctions – Inside Bay Area

It is well known by experts that storm surges never used to happen before the SUV was invented.

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Floods in the Netherlands – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a chronological list of floods that have occurred in the Netherlands, until 1500 most parts of the Netherlands were in Frisia.

• 838 December 26: A large part of the northwest of the Netherlands (in that time the land belonged to Frisia – now called Friesland) was flooded by a storm. Lack of good dikes was an important cause of this flood disaster. Bishop Prudentius of Troyes describes this flood; he said there were 2437 victims. This flood is also described in the Annales Xantenses.
• 1014 September 28: for the first time the partially closed coast line of the Netherlands was breached. Walcheren suffered a particularly large amount of damage. It took years before people managed to get their lives back on track. The chronicle of the Quedlinburg abbey in Saxony reports that thousands of people died.
• 1042 November 2: flood mentioned in Annales Blandiniensis (Ghent), probably only affecting the Flemish coast and in particular the region of the Yser mouth.
• 1134: The Zwin opens as a channel connecting Bruges with the North Sea.
• 1163: The Netherlands experienced several floods this year. This caused dike breaches along the Maas. As a result the mouth of the Oude Rijn at Katwijk, which was already almost entirely silted up, was entirely closed by sediment carried around by the flood.
• 1170: First All Saints’ flood (Allerheiligenvloed). Large parts of the north of the Netherlands and the Zuiderzee region were inundated. A channel from the North Sea was opened into the fresh water Lake Flavo (Almere lake), and it became the salt water Zuiderzee. This flood marked the beginning and spread of the North Sea, Zuiderzee and Waddenzee. Two factors causing this sea enlargement were important: first was the sea area increase, second the presence of large peat areas, which were easily washed away.
• 1196: St. Nicholas’ Flood^{Dutch text} (Sint-Nicolaasvloed). Large parts of the north of the Netherlands and the Zuiderzee region were inundated. Where the storm flood of 1170 made a beginning, this storm worsened it, washing away large peat areas. The result of this storm was destruction of peat areas in West Friesland and enlarging the Waddenzee and the Almere which became theZuiderzee.
• 1212: Noord-Holland suffered a large flood with approximately 60,000 victims.

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