Real Climate Science

During October, 1894, the Florida Panhandle was hit by a hurricane strong enough to destroy miles of train track.

12 Oct 1894, Page 7 – New-York Tribune at Newspapers.com

Less than eight weeks later. Florida was hit by a calamitous freeze which destroyed almost the entire citrus crop – and put an end to citrus farming in the northern part of the state.

05 Jan 1895, 10 – The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com

Prior to 1894, citrus was grown in northern Florida, but the climate is too cold there now. This is undoubtedly due to unprecedented man-made global warming.

Florida Citrus Growers & Shippers of oranges, grapefruit, & lemons

The Great Freezes and the Collapse of the Florida Citrus Industry

Looking forward to the rerun in four weeks.

Hurricane Michael damage in Enterprise, AL

“You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for.”

Hillary Clinton  October 10, 2018

Two years after calling America a “Basket of Deplorables” – Hillary Clinton says Democrats can no longer be civil with the people in the red regions on this map.

This is what Hillary describes as “civility.”

The US was hit by three major hurricanes in 1954, including the last two to hit New England. The third one, Hurricane Hazel caused massive damage in South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario – where a storm surge killed more than 100 people in Toronto.

16 Oct 1954, Page 1 – The Gaffney Ledger at Newspapers.com

Arial  photography shows that most of the damage was done by the storm surge, rather than by wind. Roof damage is caused by wind, but houses getting washed away is caused by water.  Category four winds would have removed just about all the roofs, and knocked down most of the trees.

Drone footage shows Hurricane Michael ravaged Florida town where it made landfall

Leftists are done being civil, like they were eight years ago – when they called for skeptical schoolchildren to be executed by their teachers.

As Hurricane Michael came on shore, NOAA reported peak gusts of 119 MPH, with maximum sustained winds of 150 MPH. This makes no sense mathematically or scientifically, but makes perfect sense from the point of view of global warming propagandists.

Hurricane MICHAEL

Then the fraudsters at Weather Channel upped the ante, and added an extra 10 MPH to the peak gust.

Michael Now Accelerating Through Central Georgia; Deadly Storm Surge, Damaging Winds Continue Following Florida Panhandle Landfall | The Weather Channel

After all of this junk science and garbage mathematics, Hurricane Michael officially became the third most intense hurricane on record.

This is all because … science.

A few weeks ago climate scientists said climate change is making hurricanes slow down, stall and rain a lot like Florence. This week they say climate change causes fast moving hurricanes like Michael.

I was watching the storm and the commentary this morning, and long before landfall Michael was officially declared to be a catastrophic category four hurricane (just below category five), the most powerful to ever make landfall “in that region” – and the third most intense in US history after the 1935 Labor Day hurricane and Camille in 1969.  It was a genuine pre-hurricane category four propaganda storm.

The NOAA wind gauge at Panama City didn’t back up any of the claims.  It showed a peak sustained wind speed of  62 knots before the eyewall arrived, and minimum pressure of 937.5 mb. Neither remotely close to the hype.

Meteorological Observations – NOAA Tides & Currents

The pictures of damage I’ve seen don’t compare to other “officially less intense” hurricanes, like Andrew in 1992.

Or the 1926 Miami hurricane.

Or the 1900 Galveston hurricane.

Weather Channel made these claims – 155 MPH sustained winds and central pressure of 919 mb. which weren’t even in the ball park of what the NOAA instrumentation at Panama City showed.

Michael Now Accelerating Through Central Georgia; Deadly Storm Surge, Damaging Winds Continue Following Florida Panhandle Landfall | The Weather Channel

And then they directly contradicted themselves in the same article, with the image below. There weren’t any category four wind speed gusts, much less sustained winds. I don’t see any evidence from wind reports or damage reports that Michael was a category four storm at landfall.

I also don’t see any evidence that Michael was stronger than numerous other hurricanes which have hit the region.

12 Oct 1894, Page 7 – New-York Tribune at Newspapers.com

I’ve seen this pattern over and over again – fake landfall statistics are made up long before landfall, the press dutifully parrots them, and then the actual data measured at landfall becomes irrelevant.  It is same strategy leftists use for everything.