Prime Minister Peter O’Neill of New Guinea takes a look at Prince Charles’ carbon footprint.
Prince Charles is known as the Queen’s “pikinini” in the pidgin English spoken in the Pacific nation.
Prince Charles and Camilla begin Jubilee tour in Papua New Guinea – Telegraph
Bette explains how CO2 affects her flight plans.
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The 1933 Treasure Coast hurricane … made landfall near the border of Palm Beach and Martin counties, Florida, as a strong Category 3 hurricane on September 4.
1933 Treasure Coast hurricane – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1933 Cuba–Brownsville hurricane … struck near Brownsville early on September 5 with winds estimated at 125 mph
1933 Cuba–Brownsville hurricane – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
By contrast, it has now been more than 2,500 days since the US was hit by a major hurricane, the longest such period on record since the Civil War.
h/t to Andy DC
Good thing that morons like McKitten weren’t around to blame the storm on democracy.
For those who live in the Garden State and the New York City area, and think that a major hurricane isn’t possible here better think again. This weekend commemorates the 185th anniversary of the Great Hurricane of 1821. On September 3rd that summer, a Category Four Hurricane rapidly moved up the east coast. As a matter of fact, the storm moved from North Carolina’s outer banks to the New York City area in just ten hours. This storm struck the Cape May area of extreme South Jersey, and moved up along a path that is covered by the Garden State Parkway today.
The Great Hurricane of 1821 was a classic Cape Verde storm. Originating off the African coast, the hurricane was picked up by ships near Grand Turk Island in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The storm headed northward, where on September 3rd, it was in Cape Hatteras by dawn, the Virginia Capes by noon, and in Delaware Bay by mid-afternoon according to the book, Great Storms of the Jersey Shore written by Larry Savadore and Margaret Thomas Buchholz. Coastal areas in the tip of Southern New Jersey such as Cape May were separated from the rest of that Southern Jersey Peninsula while heavy tree damage was reported on Long Beach Island in Ocean County.
According to an article written by Kirk Moore and Todd Bates of the Asbury Park Press on July 23, 2006, Cape May was known as Cape Island, which was appropriate, especially when a “wall of water surged across the peninsula from Delaware Bay to the sea.” Today, tourists visit the Cape May Point and its lighthouse, a place where storm surge, wind and waves forced residents including fishermen, farmers, and children to flee for higher ground.
It was the only time on record that a major hurricane has impacted the Garden State. The hurricane produced 100 mph winds as far west as Philadelphia, and a thirteen foot storm surge in what is now today, the Battery Park section of lower Manhattan. The surge was the highest ever recorded in New York Harbor. Continuing further to the north, the Great Hurricane of 1821 didn’t stop there. It roared through New England as well producing winds between minimal Category One strength, and strong Category Two strength on the Saffir-Simpson Scale.
As mentioned in the book, Hurricane Watch by Jack Williams and former National Hurricane Center director, Bob Sheets, winds were reported by amateur meteorologist, William C. Redfield to be between seventy-five and one hundred miles per hour in Connecticut. Redfield noted a peculiar quality about the damage created by this storm in Litchfield County, Connecticut as well as other parts of the Nutmeg state. It finished up by heading into the rest of New England, particularly, Worcester Massachussetts.
In 1821, Manhattan was split into two islands by the storm surge of a hurricane. A similar even happened last weekend. McKitten has determined from these two data points that Sandy is the new normal.
Eric Berger calls himself the SciGuy and is a big global warming advocate. He wrote this column yesterday.
My concern is whether the end justifies the means. My concern is setting expectations that Sandy, that large, destructive hurricanes striking the United States, is the “new normal.” My concern is that we’re telling people that we’ve entered an era in which super-storms are the new normal and that there will be a mega-disaster every year.
My concern is that we’re not debating facts when it comes to hurricanes and climate science.
IT’S SCIENCE, STUPID
Science tells us this is not a new normal.
There will probably be fewer Sandy-like storms in the future | SciGuy | a Chron.com blog
h/t to Marc Morano
After Sandy hit, Mayor Bloomberg became obsessed with the marathon and blaming CO2 – instead of taking care of the victims.
Staten Island residents are furious. They feel that in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy they’ve been ignored and left to fend for themselves.
CBS 2?s Jessica Schneider toured the borough on Thursday night and saw one home on Cedar Grove Avenue that looks like it was torn to shreds by a tornado.
However, it was surging ocean waters that tore the house apart, and filled others with more than 10 feet of water.
It’s that type of apparent neglect that has left residents saying they haven’t received the attention or help they so desperately need.
Staten Islanders On Sandy Response: We’ve Been Left Far Behind « CBS New York
h/t to Dave G
David Appell told us a few weeks ago that every gallon of gasoline burned inflicts huge costs on the economy. Therefore we can infer that the lack of gasoline in New York is causing a massive economic boom, and will result in windfall profits.
Drivers Waiting For 6 Hours At Midtown Gas Station « CBS New York
h/t to Will Nitschke
