tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post344910611720655244..comments2024-01-16T03:42:46.705-05:00Comments on The Downward Spiral: The Truth About Climate Change? It's All in a NameBill Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17551954408189665078noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-40275882182652634292012-10-31T21:45:19.824-04:002012-10-31T21:45:19.824-04:00I agree with your general point, but your link sho...I agree with your general point, but your link shows you missed one: Keith in 1990. If you start THERE, Sandy becomes #18.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-20135015630930023062012-10-30T15:47:28.951-04:002012-10-30T15:47:28.951-04:00Thanks, Anon. I hadn't seen that one. Why is...Thanks, Anon. I hadn't seen that one. Why is that the British press has done a better job of covering that story than the American press? Nevermind, I know the answer of course. Bill Hickshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17551954408189665078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-64056238395881570312012-10-30T15:16:48.629-04:002012-10-30T15:16:48.629-04:00Bill,
Thought you might be interested in this art...Bill,<br /><br />Thought you might be interested in this article:<br /><br /><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/27/sensata-plant-illinois-jobsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-78382633427743090492012-10-30T14:03:55.501-04:002012-10-30T14:03:55.501-04:00Freak weather events in 2012 and in U.S. alone:
1...Freak weather events in 2012 and in U.S. alone:<br /><br />1) Warmest year on record January to September.<br />2) Warmest March on record.<br />3) Wildfires burn over 1 million acres in June alone. To the middle of September, 8.4 million acres in the U.S. have burned, 2nd highest to 2006 - but we still three months to go.<br />4) Derecho rolls from Chicago to D.C.<br />5) Drought covers more of the U.S. than at any point in the weather record.<br />6) 50% of U.S. counties named disaster areas.<br />7) A hailstorm in Dallas caused roughly $2 billion in damage (national average for yearly combined hail damage in all of the U.S. is $1 billion).<br />8) Warmest July on record.<br />9) Hurricane Isaac set daily rain record of 7.86 inches in New Orleans (Katrina had the previous high of 4.5 inches).<br />10) The U.S. records the most extreme weather from January to August, according to the Climate Extremes Index: http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/during-the-year-so-far-u.s.-has-most-extreme-weather-on-record-14975<br />11) Warmest September on record globally (tied with 2005). This is the 331st month in a row with warmer temperatures globally than the 20th century average.<br />12) Hurricane Sandy causes record flooding on the East Coast, multiple fatalities, and estimates of at least $10 billion in damage.<br /><br />And here's the kicker - it's not even an El Nino year. And I didn't mention the record Arctic melt this year.<br /><br />Somebody really ought to make a video of people saying different weather phenomena are 1-in-100 year events in the past few years. It'd probably be over 10 minutes long of just that. One thing I noticed was that Bloomberg was more careful - he said Sandy was a 'once-in-a-long-time' event.<br /><br />Meanwhile, on top denial blog 'Watt's Up With That', Sandy was technically not a hurricane when it reached landfall:<br />http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/29/tropical-storm-sandy/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-81414691219774343542012-10-30T10:42:32.357-04:002012-10-30T10:42:32.357-04:00The problem is that human nature makes people acce...The problem is that human nature makes people accept any plausible sounding good-news explanation over any bad-news explanation regardless or evidence, data, math or science. Since rational climate change people will always admit that no single storm can be attributed directly to climate change, the deniers always have the plausible explanation that this was just one freak event. From there, human nature takes over and the population can go safely back to ignoring climate change. Move along, nothing to see here...<br />bmersonnoreply@blogger.com