Thousands of people burned to death in Peshtigo, Wisconsin in October, 1871 during a massive firestorm which destroyed more than a million acres.
Chicago burned to the ground on the same day. A huge cyclonic storm generated the high winds which fanned the flames.
At the river – Harper’s Weekly, Nov. 1871
Experts tell us that the Colorado fires last week were the most destructive in history, because they are completely incompetent and know nothing about history.
In the year 1900, the entire city of Galveston, Texas was destroyed by a hurricane, which killed nearly 10,000 people.
As bad as it was, the Galveston Hurricane was in no way comparable to the massive devastation that struck DC this week – which unequivocally proves global warming.
Storms leave millions without power in mid-Atlantic region – US news – msnbc.com
Experts tell us that Polar Bears can’t survive summer without ice. They fall over dead, like Colorado Pikas in 60 degree weather.
Sadly, the Arctic was indeed ice-free around 5,000 years ago, which means that the last Polar Bear went the way of the Dodo Bird long before we were all born.
Examination of several proxy records (e.g., sediment cores) of sea ice indicate ice-free or near ice-free summer conditions for at least some time during the period of 15,000 to 5,000 years ago (Polyak et al., 2010)
July 10 will mark 2450 days without a hurricane strike in Florida – by far the longest such period on record. CO2 is close to 400 ppm now.
During the 1880s, Florida was hit by eleven hurricanes, including three major hurricanes. CO2 was 290 ppm at the time.
This statistic is not important however, because they had a windy day in DC this week, which proves that CO2 is making the climate unbearable.
July 2009 was 12.2 degrees colder than July, 1936. Illinois residents can see climate change from their house.
Illinois, Temperature, July 1895-2011
Fifteen years of no temperature rise, while government has spent hundreds of billions of dollars trying to scare us over a total non-event.
John Cook loves to quote the statistic that “there are more record highs than record lows” in recent years.
Well surprise, surprise surprise. Study after study has shown that urbanization keeps nighttime temperatures up. This has been understood for hundreds of years. Even in the tiny town of Barrow, Alaska – UHI keeps winter temperatures 2.2C above the surrounding regions.
During winter (December 2001–March 2002), the urban area averaged 2.2 °C warmer than the hinterland. The strength of the UHI increased as the wind velocity decreased, reaching an average value of 3.2 °C under calm (<2 m s?1) conditions and maximum single-day magnitude of6 °C
http://www.cas.umt.edu/geography/documents/Hinkel_etal_2003_winter_UHI.pdf
Phoenix has 4-7C nighttime warming
The average minimum May temperature at the urban locations displayed an apparent upward increase through the time series (1910 through 2000), which was attributed to the urban growth of the region. By the end of the series, there was a +4 to 7 ºC (7 to 13 ºF) difference between the urban minimum temperatures and the rural minimum temperatures
Of course there are fewer record lows, and the reasons are well understood. No need for alarmists to lie about it.
It’s easy to confuse current weather events with long-term climate trends, and hard to understand the difference between weather and climate.
John Cook wrote this in 2010 when he was trying to explain the cold weather. No doubt a couple of weeks of hot weather over 1% of the planet is an entirely different matter though …..
