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On 30 January 1607 the Bristol Channel floods resulted in the drowning of an estimated 2,000 or more people, with houses and villages swept away, an estimated 200 square miles (518 km2) of farmland inundated and livestock destroyed,wrecking the local economy along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary, in what was then the Kingdom of England.

The devastation was particularly severe on the Welsh side, extending from Laugharne in Carmarthenshire to above Chepstow in Monmouthshire. Cardiff was the most badly affected town.[2] The coasts of Devon and the Somerset Levels as far inland as Glastonbury Tor, 14 miles (23 km) from the coast, were also affected. The sea wall at Burnham-on-Sea gave way,[3] and the water flowed over the low lying levels and moors. Thirty villages in Somerset were affected, including Brean which was “swallowed up” and where seven out the nine houses were destroyed with 26 of the inhabitants dying. For ten days the Church of All Saints at Kingston Seymour, near Weston-super-Mare, was filled with water to a depth of 5 feet (1.5 m). A chiselled mark remains showing that the maximum height of the water was 8 metres above sea level.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Channel_floods,_1607

Shellfish thrived during the Devonian at 3,000 ppm CO2. Their Aragonite shells did not dissolve. Unless the properties of Aragonite have magically changed, it seems safe to assume that modern Aragonite shells will probably not dissolve at 500 ppm. Even Joe Romm’s hysterics won’t make them dissolve.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316152939.htm

http://www.bioone.org/doi/pdf/10.4202/app.2010.0044

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/killers.html

Nineteen of the twenty deadliest tornadoes occurred before 1960. This in spite of the fact that population density was much lower, and that they didn’t have superstores like Home Depot and Wal Mart with hundreds of people in one place.

The US Weather Service (Ministry of Truth) issued this statement in May :

The death toll so far this year stands at 520. The previous highest recorded death toll in a single year was 519 in 1953.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13587654

The Weather Service lacks access to the Internet and apparently was unable to spend ten  seconds or so searching Google before making that statement.

http://news.google.com/newspapers

Isn’t it amazing that all of the world’s active coral atolls are just above sea level, even though sea level has risen over 100 metres in the last 20,000 years.

Those coral reefs must have been very thirsty – sitting 100 metres above the water.

A reminder to send this link to everyone and everywhere :

https://realclimatescience.com/bad-weather/

I have been accumulating hundreds of historical news articles which show that extreme weather was worse when CO2 was lower.

The global warming story has gone flat, so the whole scam now rides on them convincing people of historical weather misinformation, sea level misinformation, drought misinformation, coral reef misinformation, ocean pH misinformation, ice sheet misinformation, and Arctic sea ice extent during two weeks in September.

Thanks to all the readers who are contributing to this knowledge base!

The deadliest hurricane in US history, the worst drought in Australia’s history, forest fires across the US ….

Proof that too little CO2 is extremely dangerous. We must never let CO2 get that low again.

This is why alarmists have determined that history began in 1978.

http://news.google.com/

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President Johnson said that Texas droughts are “depressingly familiar.”

http://news.google.com/newspapers

Exacerbated by a massive, exceptional drought, daily, monthly, even all-time record highs have been tied or broken in parts of the South over the past couple of months.

http://www.weather.com/

If you have 3,000 weather stations and a 100 year long temperature record, you would expect about 30 of them to break their all-time record in the current year. The math is a bit tricky for climate scientists : 3,000 / 100 = 30.

The “exceptional drought” is much less widespread than many previous droughts, and the heat doesn’t compare with the 1930s.

h/t to Dave G

Adding 0.3 mm/year on to sea level because of a declining sea floor, is equivalent to adding 30% to your reported gross income – because you paid 30% in taxes. It is a completely inane  concept – which is why climate scientists latch on to it so easily.