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Thirty feet of sea level rise in the next 80 years, unless Marco Rubio stops it.

South Florida Is Sinking. Where Is Marco Rubio?

In 1995 the New York Times said most East Coast beaches would be gone by 2020.

“At the most likely rate of rise, some experts say, most of the beaches on the East Coast of the United States would be gone in 25 years.”

Scientists Say Earth’s Warming Could Set Off Wide Disruptions – The New York Times

Comparison–Sea Level Rise Interactives | Eco Reports

The beach at Ft. Lauderdale is the same size it was 25 years ago.

It is also the same size it was 60 years ago.

1960

2021

The Maldives are still there.

26 Sep 1988 – Threat to islands

Live Cam Kuredu Island Resort | SkylineWebcams

Stormy weather – Global warming – Salon.com

“Prof. Lamb, director of climatology at England’s University of East Anglia, has been analyzing weather back to 800 A.D. He says the first 40 years of this century were warmer than any since the early Middle Ages. The Arctic icecap shrank by 20 per cent in the 60 years leading up to the early Forties. Dramatic changes in cli-mate started about 1950 and have been gaining momentum, influenced by fluctuations in the sun’s heat. The sun’s electrical storms are increasingly violent and affect the polar cap’s expansion. The professor flunks this has caused many floods over the world.”

The Evening Independent – Google News Archive Search

A geomagnetic storm strikes right after Elon Musk launches a fleet of Starlink satellites, destroying dozens of them.”‘

SpaceX Loses 40 of 49 New Satellites Due to Solar Storm – Videos from The Weather Channel | weather.com

February 10 2022 News

“SpaceX Loses 40 of 49 New Satellites Due to Solar Storm

February 9, 2022

A geomagnetic storm strikes right after Elon Musk launches a fleet of Starlink satellites, destroying dozens of them.”‘

SpaceX Loses 40 of 49 New Satellites Due to Solar Storm – Videos from The Weather Channel | weather.com

“Doctor, when will the virus end?
“How should I know?  I’m not a politician”

6:44 PM · Feb 7, 2022

On this date in 1493, Christopher Columbus was almost killed by a hurricane.

“X of Febr — “A terrible hurricane has burst upon us. We see oure ende before us. Ye Pinta is already wrecked and will be sure to perish. We are atte ye moste four dales layte from Azores. So neare our aime.  Oh. God. Thou does chastise me”

06 Jan 1955, Page 6 – Fort Lauderdale News at Newspapers.com

“This past March was the second warmest winter month ever recorded in the Midwest, with temperatures 15 degrees above average. The only other winter month that was warmer was December of 1889, during which temperatures were 18 degrees above average.”

Two warmest winter months in Midwest, U.S. history may have connection — ScienceDaily

During December 1889 no one needed coal, meat was rotting and maple trees were budding. There was also a deadly flu epidemic which was filling up hospitals.

26 Dec 1889, 2 – The Tennessean at Newspapers.com

TimesMachine: December 30, 1889 – NYTimes.com

TimesMachine: December 30, 1889 – NYTimes.com

13 Dec 1889, Page 7 – Pittsburgh Dispatch at Newspapers.com

28 Dec 1889, 5 – The Morning Post at Newspapers.com

From the 1899 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica

“some epidemics such as those of 1762 and 1889 have been characterized by a severe type of the disease land considerable loss of life. The mortality is generally reckoned at about 2 percent., but when an extensive epidemic prevails, even this proportion is sufficient to swell the death-rate largely. This disease is referred to in the works of the ancient physicians, but accurate descriptions of it have been given by numerous medical writers during the last three centuries, in connection with epidemics which have occurred from time to time. These various accounts agree substantially in their narration of the phenomena and course of the disease, and influenza has is all times been regarded as fulfilling all the conditions of an epidemic in its sudden invasion, rapid and extensive spread, and speedy and complete disappearance. Among the chief epidemics of influenza are those of 1762, 1782, 1787, 1803, 1833, 1837, 1847, and 1889. In several of these the disease appeared to originate in some parts of Asia, and to travel westward through Europe and on to America”

The warmest March in the US actually occurred in 1910, not 2012.

The summer of 1910 was also the longest on record in the US and brought the largest fire in US history to Idaho and Montana.

America’s Worst Wildfire: The Big Burn of 1910

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“Feb. 2 dawned a rainy, blustery day with some winds measured at 80 miles an hour In Bangor and more along the coast. Windows were broken and buildings otherwise battered by the gale force winds. but that was Just the beginning.”

“But in Bangor water showed itself to be a most clever menace, rising 15 feet in just minutes inundating some 2u0 cars parked in the downtown Kenduskeag Parking plaza.

Bangor Daily News – Google News Archive Search

03 Feb 1976, 6 – The South Bend Tribune at Newspapers.com

There were larger floods in 1902 and 1846.

03 Feb 1976, 6 – The Bangor Daily News at Newspapers.com

20 Oct 1899, Page 6 – The Age at Newspapers.com