Real Climate Science

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

? Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“The mercury plumbed thermometric depths again in western Canada and the Northwestern sector of the United States with the polar mass expected to envelop most of , the north central states tomorrow. A reading of -41 marked the twenty-ninth consecutive day of sub-zero temperatures at Bemidji. Minn. A 62-year-old record fell at. Bismarck. N. D. A minimum of -27 wee recorded there today. A drop to -50 at Saskatoon. Sask . Canada. rounded out 56 days in a row In which the thermometer has never ventured above -20. Other low marks included: Minot, N. D., -39; Havre, Mont., -30; Sheri-dan, Wyo., -16; Aberdeen, S. D.. -21: Lutherville.Md:. -13. “

13 Feb 1936, 2 – The Missoulian at Newspapers.com

09 Aug 1878, 5 – The Boston Globe at Newspapers.com

09 Aug 1878, Page 2 – Warrenton Gazette at Newspapers.com

09 Aug 1878, 7 – The Head-light at Newspapers.com

09 Aug 1878, 4 – Iowa County Democrat at Newspapers.com

09 Aug 1878, 6 – News Herald at Newspapers.com

On April 11, 1965 hundreds of people died in tornadoes in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Arkansas. There was also severe flooding in the Midwest.

12 Apr 1965, Page 1 – The Muscatine Journal and News-Tribune at Newspapers.com

12 Apr 1965, 22 – The Sault Star at Newspapers.com

In order to save the planet from a one part per ten thousand increase in atmospheric CO2 over the past century, we need to spend almost a quadrillion dollars over the next century.

09 May 1909, 82 – The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com

08 Feb 1912, Page 1 – Dixon Evening Telegraph at Newspapers.com

07 Feb 1912, 1 – The Daytona Daily News at Newspapers.com

10 Feb 1912, Page 1 – Hopkinsville Kentuckian at Newspapers.com

15 Aug 1912, Page 1 – The Wichita Beacon at Newspapers.com

22 Aug 1912, 2 – The Milan News at Newspapers.com

17 Apr 1912, 2 – The Spokesman-Review at Newspapers.com

The Times of London reported on August 16, 1912 about devastating forest fires in Greece and a storm near Spain which killed 143 fishermen.

16 Aug 1912, Page 3 – The Times at Newspapers.com

They also reported on destructive forest fires in Greece in early July.

08 Jul 1912, Page 5 – The Times at Newspapers.com

In October there were large fires burning in Northern Michigan and Massachusetts.

17 Oct 1912, Page 2 – Stevens Point Journal at Newspapers.com

22 Oct 1912, 11 – The Boston Globe at Newspapers.com

In December there were large fires in California.

06 Dec 1912, 1 – Stockton Daily Evening Record at Newspapers.com

This book thoroughly destroys all the current misinformation campaign surrounding forest fires.

“Every year over 200,000 fires burn and sear the forests of the United States. Every year an average of 31,000,000 acres of forest land is burned over — an area larger than the State of New York.”

“Old trees still reveal scars of fires that occurred centuries ago. There are scar records of conflagrations in the big tree forests of California as far back as A.D. 245 and again in 1441, before any white man had set foot in the West. We know that extensive fires swept over the forested mountain slopes of Colorado in 1676, 1707 , and 1722, for venerable Englemann spruces still bear the scars. White spruce forests in Maine likewise tell of a fire that burned some 200 square miles in 1795 .”

“1825 … The Miramichi fire in Maine and New Brunswick … 3,000,000 acres burned … 160 persons killed.

1846 … The Yaquina fire in Oregon, covering 450,000 acres containing some of the finest stands of Douglas- fir, Sitka spruce, and western cedar that could be found on the Pacific coast .

1853 … The Nestucca fire on the Oregon coast … 320,000 acres burned.”

“The Pontiac fire in Quebec … 1,600,000 acres burned .

1865 … The Silverton fire in Oregon, said to have burned 1,000,000 acres.

1868 … The Coos fire on the Oregon coast, more than 300,000 acres burned from FIRES . September 15 to October 20.

1871 … The Peshtigo fire in Wisconsin -one of the most calamitous in American history . About 1,280,000 acres burned … homes, towns, settlements swept away . 1,500 lives lost.

1876 … The Bighorn fire in Wyoming … 500,000 acres burned.

1881 … A Michigan forest fire destroyed a million acres of timber … property loss, $ 2,000,000 … 138 people killed.

1894 … The Phillips fire in Wisconsin 100,000 acres burned … 300 persons killed. The Hinckley fire in Minnesota .. 160,000 forested acres burned … 12 towns wiped out … 418 lives lost .

1903 … The Adirondack fire in New York … 450,000 acres burned over.

“Every year America’s forests and woods and ranges suffer an average of 210,000 fires … 575 a day”

Forest Fires and how You Can Prevent Them – Google Books