Real Climate Science

Eight years ago, the press announced that Asheville was ready for the next big rainfall event like the one during July 1916.

“Never before had so much rain fallen anywhere in the United States in a 24-hour period, the National Weather Bureau reported.

The French Broad River, usually about 380 feet wide, stretched 1,300 feet across. It crested at 21 feet, some 17 feet above flood stage. Though the rain had stopped on the Sunday morning of July 16, 1916, people were taken by surprise by the speed and volume of rising floodwaters.”

100 years after the Flood of 1916, the City of Asheville is ready for the next one – The City of Asheville

“In 1916, weathermen couldn’t predict a hurricane’s path with much more precision than the Farmer’s Almanac could predict the hour of winter’s first snowfall. Early meteorologists could, however, measure the speed and strength of falling rain. On Saturday, July 15, 1916, the Blue Ridge region saw more rain than anyone anywhere had ever seen since such records had been kept. One spot in Altapass, near Grandfather Mountain, measured more than 22 inches of rain in 24 hours.”

Hell and High Water: The Flood of 1916 | Our State

Four weeks after the 1916 flood in North Carolina, an even larger flood occurred in West Virginia.

Aug 10, 1916, page 1 – The Wheeling Intelligencer at Newspapers.com

Mar 19, 1925, page 22 – The Boston Globe at Newspapers.com

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On May 30, 1935 two locations in Eastern Colorado received 24 inches of rain in six hours.

Extreme Weather: A Guide & Record Book – Christopher C. Burt – Google Books

h/t Lee Adam Wilshier

Life has thrived on earth for at least 540 million years.

The Washington Post says earth is close to the coldest of the last 500 million years, and says this provides “a warning on the consequences of human-caused warming”

Scientists calculate Earth’s temperature changes over 485 million years – The Washington Post

When life exploded

Chazy Reef: The Oldest Reef in The World – Ocean Info

“Arctic sea ice is headed toward a historic low  09-30-2024

This is the conclusion of researchers at NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).”

Arctic sea ice is headed toward a historic low – Earth.com

There has been no trend in Arctic sea ice extent for over seventeen years.

ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/N_seaice_extent_daily_v3.0.csv

NASA’s leading experts predicted the Arctic would be ice-free sometime between 2012 and 2018.

“NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally said: “At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions.”

Could all Arctic ice be gone by 2012?

Wayback Machine

The Argus-Press – Google News Archive Search

Antarctic sea ice cover is close to average since 1981, and is more than 1.5 million km² higher than winter 1966.  The press describes this as “record winter low” and “permanent shift.”

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“in August 1966 the maximum sea ice extent fell to 15.9×10 km ± 0.3×10 km .”

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Extent has been higher than last year almost every day this year, by an average of 548,658 km².

ftp://osisaf.met.no/prod_test/ice/index/v2p2/sh/osisaf_sh_sie_daily.txt

“Provide an additional $570 billion in Foreign Military Financing to ensure Ukraine has the tools to defend itself.”

NEW WAY FORWARD

On June 25, 2009, John Kerry said the Arctic would be ice-free by 2014.

“You have sea ice which is melting at a rate that the Arctic Ocean now increasingly is exposed. In five years, scientists predict we will have the first ice-free Arctic summer”

His forecast didn’t do very well.

So in 2014 he announced that “the science” was absolutely certain.

“And let there be no doubt in anybody’s mind that the science is absolutely certain”

John Kerry  Feb 17, 2014

John Kerry says climate change is a weapon of mass destruction | Grist

Now Kerry says the First Amendment is an impediment to government controlling the flow of information.

Asia is leaving the rest of the world in the dust for both electricity generation and CO2 emissions. The west is voluntarily self-destructing, in order to facilitate their worship of greenhouse gases.

Electricity generation

Annual CO? emissions

Google Gemini boldly asserts that there has been an increase in hurricanes due to the burning of fossil fuels. There is zero evidence to support any of this propaganda.

“there is strong scientific consensus that the increasing intensity and frequency of hurricanes are linked to climate change, which is primarily caused by the burning of fossil fuels.”

Global Tropical Cyclone Activity | Ryan Maue

There has been no trend in the Arctic sea ice minimum, mean, or maximum extent since 2007, but Google Gemini boldly asserts that there has been a decline.

“Arctic sea ice extent has significantly declined since 2007.”

ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/N_seaice_extent_daily_v3.0.csv