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I was living in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1980, and working in Tempe on the other side of the Salt River. Three months of record rainfall caused the river to get larger than the Mississippi. Nine of ten bridges across the Salt River washed out, and turned my five minute commute into a two hour commute. Massive flooding occurred all over Arizona, Utah and California. A tornado ripped the roof off the Fresno airport. Many people died when the I-17 bridge across the Auga Fria River collapsed.

CO2 was well below Hansen’s safe 350 PPM. Politicians weren’t stupid enough at that time to try to fix the weather by forcing people to buy golf carts.

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I’m stuck at work and know that Chelsea and Man U are headed into overtime. Please don’t post the result. I want to watch later.

My understanding is that Man U is having to play with only eleven players on the pitch, one less than Sunday’s match.

• The Arctic is rapidly melting at -15C
• 97% of the Greenland ice sheet melted this summer
• Manhattan is underwater, just as Hansen predicted
• Dengue Fever is coming to Chicago

According to Bill McKibben, my CO2 footprint contributed to the record low number of tornadoes this summer.

Many lives were no doubt saved, and I feel that I deserve the Medal Of Honor for occasionally sacrificing my bike ride to get in my car and crank out some extra CO2.

It doesn’t get much dumber than this. Why did they build that house on stilts, Homer?

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“If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don’t know me,” Christie added.

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Fortunately, the GOP selected a candidate with some self-respect.

I watched Gladiator (several times) and am proud to list myself as a co-winner of the Best Picture Oscar.

The science of historical hysterical climatology has several schools of thought

• The Hayhoe/Dessler/Hansen school – time began in 1970
• The Karl/Hansen school – people were too stupid in the past to read thermometers, and have become exponentially more stupid in the current decade. Particularly in 2012.
• The NOAA school – people did not know how to count dead bodies before 1950

One more school of thought is universally accepted by all hysterical climatologists. People in the past did not value their own lives, and were too dumb to get out of the way of a storm. Losing 20,000 people in a 1780 storm is trivial compared to 50 people in a 2012 storm.

Reaching the City on September 3, 1821, the storm was one of the only hurricanes believed to have passed directly over parts of modern New York City. The tide rose 13 feet in one hour and inundated wharves, causing the East River to converge into the Hudson River across lower Manhattan as far north as Canal Street. However, few deaths were attributed to the storm because flooding was concentrated in neighborhoods with far fewer homes than exist today.

NYC Hazards: NYC Hurricane History

Katherine Hayhoe’s great-great-great-great grandmother blamed it on horse farts.

h/t to Ivan

It wiped out many British ships and killed 4,000 people.

The Newfoundland Hurricane of 1775, also known as the Independence Hurricane, was a hurricane that hit the Colony of Newfoundland in September 1775. It is believed to have killed at least 4,000 people, making it one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes of all time.

The September 9, 1775 edition of The Virginia Gazette reported: “The shocking accounts of damage done by the rains last week are numerous: Most of the mill-dams are broke, the corn laid almost level with the ground, and fodder destroyed; many ships and other vessels drove ashore and damaged, at Norfolk, Hampton, and York. In the heavy storm of wind and rain, which came on last Saturday, and continued most part of the night, the Mercury man of war as drove from her station abreast of the town of Norfolk, and stuck flat aground in shoal water.”

A total of 4,000 sailors, mostly from England and Ireland, were reported to have been drowned.[1] A localized storm surge is reported to have reached heights of between 20 and 30 feet. Losses from the hurricane include two armed schooners of the Royal Navy, which were on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland to enforce Britain’s fishing rights.

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