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Climate doom is about to go into overdrive yet again, as nature does what it does, wherever that may be. Hence the term: hurricane season, well-known in places like Florida.
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We’re about halfway through the 2023 hurricane season, predicted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasters to be a near-normal year, and it’s been rather quiet, says Issues & Insights (via CCD).
[NOAA updated its forecast to above-normal on Aug. 10. –CCD Ed.]
But with a few storms brewing this week in the Atlantic, we expect to hear the usual shrieking from politicians, activists, and the media, blaming the weather on human-caused climate change.
Our suggestion is to pay no attention to the eco-screamers’ lamentations.
On Sunday, the National Hurricane Center issued advisories for a hurricane and a tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean and an advisory for a tropical storm in the Eastern Pacific.
Of the three, the Atlantic storm Idalia seems to be the most dangerous. It could make landfall as a hurricane on the Gulf Coast of Florida on Wednesday.
That could mean a life-changing disaster for thousands of Floridians. The climatistas, though, see opportunity in crisis. They never let a serious calamity go to waste.
Before the weekend was over, the press was linking Idalia to “climate change,” which is of course code for “man-made global warming,” as if there had never been a hurricane before humans began burning fossil fuels.
The alarmist community has long insisted that weather is not the same as climate any time anyone ever pointed to mild summers and colder-than-usual winters as evidence that the global warming theory was bunk.
But when it’s convenient for spreading fear, the same crowd takes isolated weather events and claims they are evidence that human activity is warming the planet.
Even in 2023, truth is still important to some of us, and the facts show that the global warming zealots are false prophets.
Inconvenient to their con are data that show that death and destruction from climate-related disasters have fallen sharply over the last century.
Annual fatalities from floods, droughts, wildfires, storms, and extreme temperatures have tumbled by nearly 98% over that era, from nearly 500,000 in the early 1920s to fewer than 12,000 in 2022.
Full article here.
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I would dearly like to see the return of south-eastern Native American policy regarding their shamans–if the prediction doesn’t manifest they string them up. No false prognosticators allowed. That would greatly diminish that social disease.
It appears that all those protesting about this have very short memories, so short in fact as to be minuscule. It also shows their ignorance of the climate/weather events since it is an annual event.
This is what we expect from so called ‘scientists’ that play computer games rather than look at the real world events.
When I was a navy lad in the Caribbean in the 18th century it was June Too Soon. July Stand By August Go you Must September Remembet October All Over. Shifted a bit right since?
So if July was the hottest month ever and SSTs are the highest ever, this should be the most active hurricane season ever.
Let’s see if it is.
Paul Homewood reviews Sky’s biased coverage of Idalia…
‘Media fail’: Meteorologist Dumps Cold Water On CNN’s Hurricane Idalia-Fueled Climate Hysteria
Meteorologist Ryan Maue: Maue also shared a graphic with additional details, noting, “1896 Cedar Keys hurricane also made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend with 125 mph winds[.] Climate context: this is a 0 mph landfall maximum wind increase from 1896-2023 or 0 mph/century for the worst 2 storms.”
Maue: “Idalia was an ‘unprecedented event’ that last happened in 1896. Media fail.”
“How much stronger was Idalia made because of climate change? Why didn’t Idalia rapidly intensify during the 3 days it sat over the NW Caribbean? Did someone forget to push a button or turn a knob?”
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The juvenile media’s climate scribblers can’t resist going over the top whenever bad weather appears somewhere. Only fanatics could take them seriously.
NOAA forecasters increase Atlantic hurricane season prediction to ‘above normal’
Likelihood of greater activity rises due to record-warm sea surface temperatures
August 10, 2023
“The main climate factors expected to influence the 2023 Atlantic hurricane activity are the ongoing El Nino and the warm phase of the Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation, including record-warm Atlantic sea surface temperatures,” said Matthew Rosencrans, lead hurricane season forecaster with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. “Considering those factors, the updated outlook calls for more activity, so we urge everyone to prepare now for the continuing season.”
https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-forecasters-increase-atlantic-hurricane-season-prediction-to-above-normal
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Cyclical climate events.
As predicted
https://twitter.com/JohnCookne72201/status/1697139211013423398?s=20
Government Maui fire lies pile up
August 29th, 2023
To blame the Maui fires on climate change is a shameless lie and political exploitation of the worst sort. And claiming the planet is warming over carbon “pollution”— upon which life itself is dependent—is absurd.
The facts of the matter are that the wildfires are the fault of government officials and the Hawaiian Electric Company, the latter of which failed to power down electrical equipment in advance of a major storm, resulting in downed power lines igniting vast areas of unmanaged, dry, grasslands throughout the island.
Exacerbating this fire tragedy was the incompetence of Hawaiian government bureaucrats that failed to maintain grass and wilderness areas over time, and to sound the emergency management system and release water in a timely manner to mitigate the fires and spare dozens of lives lost.
https://www.cfact.org/2023/08/29/government-maui-fire-lies-pile-up/