Climate change extreme weather events due to low CO2 (1970-79)

 

1970: Brazil’s Torrential Rain & Floods Leaves Tens of Thousands Homeless

1970: 35-Foot Storm Surge Waves Swamp Bay of Bengal Region

1970: Torrential rains, floods, high winds and a heat wave produce worst modern Romanian death toll

1970: Massive wildfire sweeps across S. California

1970: Super Typhoon Patsy leaves 241 dead & 351 people missing

1970: Everglades “Deer Crisis” Result of Too Much Water

1970: Heavy rains in Israel cause terrible disaster as rocks crush bodies – 20 dead

1970: 50,000 Likely Dead From Huge Earthquake In Peru Says UN

1970: Bangladesh Struck By 13 “disastrous cyclones” Prior To Major 1970 Storm

1970: Killer Pakistan Flood Toll Now At 55,000

1970: Lubbock, TX Downtown Business District Struck By ‘F5’ Tornado

1970: Super Typhoons Joan & Kate slam Philippines a week apart

1970: 30+ tornadoes rip across U.S. Midwest & South over 3 days

1970: Most destructive tornado ever documented in Australia

1970: Strong Earthquake Jolts New Guinea Coast

1970: Colombia suffers an 8.0 magnitude earthquake

1970: Cyclone & Tidal Wave Hits E. Pakistan – 1,000,000 Deaths Likely

1970: Major F3 tornado hits Canadian city of Sudbury, Ontario

1970: Tropical Storm Norma considered Arizona’s deadliest

1970: Hurricane Celia was one of the most costly tropical storms in Texas history

1970: Arctic Has Most Ice In Over 60 Years

1970: Climatologists Forecast A New Ice Age

1970: Global Cooling – “Will Igloos Be The Homes of The Future?”

1970: “Pollution Could Cause Ice Age, Says Agency”

1970: Internal Combustion Engine Brings On Ice Age – 20 Degrees Colder

1970: A new ice age by 21st Century, scientist predicts

1970: USSR & USA researchers seek answers to why Arctic becoming more frigid

1970: NOAA: Dirty air is feared to be cause of new ice age

1970: Popular Mechanics: Global Warming To Raise Temperatures Nine Degrees By 2020

1970: 1970: Peru–Ecuador earthquake leaves 81 dead

1970: Gediz, Turkey earthquake – 1,086 people die

1970: Chinese earthquake measured at 7.7 and kills at least 15,000 people

1971: “World Is Weather Beaten” – Multiple Areas of Europe Experience Extreme Weather

1971: Huge Snows & 50 MPH Winds Paralyze U.S. Midwest

1971: Tornado Kills Several People In French Town

1971: Large Ocean Earthquake Strikes Near Siberian Coast

1971: Cyclone & 16-Foot Tidal Wave Slam India – 20,000 May Have Perished

1971: Six Months Of Heavy Rain Cause Severe Flooding In Colombia

1971: 20,000 Sq. Miles of East Africa Severely Impacted By Cyclone & Floods

1971: Hundreds Missing In Cape Province, South Africa Floods

1971: Torrential Rains & Floods In Brazil Claim At Least 160 Lives

1971: 24 Perish During Australia Floods

1971: Big rains & unusual flash flood sweeps across this Canberra region

1971: Floods Leave 200,000 Homeless In Malaysia

1971: Powerful Earthquake Staggers California – 30 Trapped In Collapsed Hospital – 80,000 Flee Weak Dam

1971: Drought Leaves Everglades Parched & Fire-Plagued

1971: Heavy rains & landslide destroy Canadian village leaving 3,490,000 sq ft crater

1971: Mississippi Delta deadly tornado outbreak – at least 19 tornadoes

1971: Waterspout strikes Hawaii resort town

1971: Tropical Storm Doria dropped heavy precipitation in New Jersey, peaking at 10.29 inches

1971: Hurricane Bridget, one of the worst hurricanes to strike the Mexican city of Acapulco

1971: Hurricane Lily was Puerto Vallarta’s worst in two decades

1971: Typhoon Hester regarded as one of the most destructive storms to strike Vietnam since 1944

1971: Violent and intense Typhoon Rose blasts Hong Kong

1971: Doublet earthquake rumbles Solomon Islands – triggers a tsunami

1971: Bingöl, Turkey earthquake leaves 1,000 persons dead

1971: Canadian Blizzard – “Storm of the Century” with record snowfalls

1971: NASA Scientists Predicts New Ice Age Likely By 2020

1971: “Ocean Floor Sediment Holds Clues to Future New Ice Age on Way—It’s Colder Already”

1971: President Carter Signs ‘National Climate Program Act’ To Do Battle Against Global Cooling

1972: Arctic Expert Predicts Ice Free North Pole By Year 2000

1972: “Weird Weather Sweeps Europe”

1972: 118 Dead, 400 Thousand Homeless From U.S. East Coast Floods

1972: 100 Degrees In Moscow Heat Wave

1972: Expert predicts northern U.S. To Warm 25 Degrees

1972: Over 200 Feared Dead From Flooding In Rapid City, South Dakota

1972: Hurricane Agnes produces a very deadly tornado outbreak

1972: Portland–Vancouver Tornado carved 9-mile path of destruction across Oregon and Washington

1972: Typhoon Helen brings torrential rains and flash flooding to Japan

1972: Typhoon Ora kills 131 in Philippines

1972: Simultaneous Typhoons Rita and Phyllis terrorize multiple Pacific nations

1972: Pacific’s Johnston Atoll struck by its very first tropical cyclone

1972: There’s A New Ice Age Coming!

1972: Geologist: “The next ice age is definitely on its way” – indicated by deep sea temperatures

1972: Time Magazine: “Another Ice Age?”

1972: UK climate scientist predicts weather will get colder

1972: Major Stanford Univ. Scientist Predicts Billions Will Disappear In “Blue Steam” By 1992

1972: Scientists Predict Huge Tsunamis To Strike Coasts of Japan & Russia

1972: Earthquake Destroys Capitol of Nicaragua, Kills Thousands

1973: Augusta, Georgia Has Record Snowstorm

1973: Argentina struck by powerful tornado – “most violent ever recorded” in Southern Hemisphere

1973: Southern New England belted by huge ice storm

1973: Pacific Hurricane Ava reaches category 5 intensity

1973: Sweltering Heat Wave Causes Water Shortages In Midwest & East Coast

1973: Mississippi River flood one of the worst in 20th century

1973: Oklahoma Deluge: 15.7 inches of rain in 24 hours

1973: Worst Floods In Pakistan’s History

1973: Heavy Rainfall & Flash Floods Produces Records In Northern Alabama

1973: Japan Jolted By Three Earthquakes, Then A Tidal Wave

1973: Typhoon Nora lays waste to Taiwan & Philippines – ranks as one of most powerful ever

1973: North Africa Ravaged By Floods – 102 Dead, Over 40,000 Homeless

1973: Popular Science: “New Ice Age Coming?”

1973: Christian Science Monitor: “Weather-watchers think another ice age may be on the way”

1973: What worries scientists? Man-made ice age!

1973: California Shaken By Earthquake

1974: SCIENCE DOCUMENTARY: “A new ice age could grip the world within the lifetime of present generations, Britons were warned”

1974: Chicago’s Sears Tower Loses Multiple Windows From 60 MPH Blizzard Winds

1974: Winter Rainstorm In California Claims 14 Lives

1974: Tornado Destroys Zeppelin Hanger In Germany – 28 Die Across Europe

1974: The Super Outbreak is the largest tornado outbreak on record for a single 24-hour period – 148 tornadoes, 13 US states

1974: Major Earthquake Strikes The Solomon Island Area In The South Pacific

1974: Cyclone Tracy Completely Destroys Darwin, Australia

1974: Brazilians Face Famine Due To Torrential Rains & Major Flooding

1974: Typhoons & Tidal Waves Bash Philippines and Bangladesh

1974: 20 Inches of Rainfall Cause Record Flooding in Mississippi

1974: Wildfires Raging In Everglades – Cause Is “Worst Drought Ever”

1974: Massive Floods In India And Bangladesh

1974: Cholera Strikes Half-Flooded Bangladesh

1974: Brisbane Swamped with Record 34 Inches Of Rain In January

1974: Hurricane Fifi, catastrophic tropical cyclone killed between 3,000 and 10,000 people in Honduras

1974: Hurricane Dolores regarded as the worst hurricane to strike Acapulco since 1938

1974: Major Pacific Northwest Storm Claims 15 Deaths

1974: Philippines Typhoon Bess produces heavy rains (30.80 in) triggering floods & landslides – 26 dead

1974: Subtropical Storm One dumps some 20 inches of rain on Florida areas

1974: Great Plains has significant tornado outbreak – 36 tornadoes

1974: Nome, Alaska “Ravaged” By Flood & Storms

1974: “Extremely Dangerous” Hurricane Carmen To Slam New Orleans After Hitting Yucatan

1974: Summer Tornadoes Kill 23 Across Kansas, Other States

1974: Another Ice Age? – Climatologists Blamed US/Pakistan Flooding On Global Cooling

1974: Scientists Worried About The Earth Entering An Ice Age – Damning the Bering Strait Seen As Solution

1974: Global Cooling Causes World Food Shortages

1974: NCAR Executive Director Warns Of Global Cooling And Resultant Crop Losses

1974: Climate Change to cause “food wars” say U.S. & European scientists

1974: Fortune Magazine: “Climatologists now blame those recurring droughts and floods on a global cooling trend”

1974: Time Magazine: Polar vortex another indicator of global cooling say scientists

1974: Expanding Ice Cap And Himalayan Glaciers Threaten World’s Food Supply, Leading Scientists Say

1974: CIA Determines Moscow Drought And Midwest Floods Result of Global Cooling

1974: Scientific support for theory of a cooling world

1974: BBC/New Scientist: “may be in for new ice age with very little warning”

1974: “New ice age could be in our lifetime”

1974: Scientists at National Academy of Science propose evacuation of 6 million from homes due to global cooling drought conditions

1974: Major Stanford Univ. Scientist Predicts England, India, Japan & Brazil Gone By 2000 Due To Shortages & Starvation

1974: Combination of Cold Weather & Meningitis Kills 500 In Brazil

1974: China’s Zhaotong earthquake possibly resulted in 20,000 deaths

1974: Approximately 5,000 perish in Pakistan’s Hunza Earthquake

1975: Scientist John Holdren Claims More Affordable & Better Supplies of Energy Will Cause Unemployment

1975: U.S. Democrat Senator Predicts 85% of Animal Species Will Be Extinct by 1995

1975: The ‘Great Storm’ ….. 65+ people dead from 45 tornadoes in South & from 24 inches of snow/blizzard conditions in North

1975: Powerful Spring Blizzard Blankets New England With Up To 32 Inches of Snow

1975: Strong Central Rocky Mountain Earthquake Rumbles Through Salt Lake City

1975: Chicago’s O’Hare Airport Closed Only For 3rd Time In History Due To Paralyzing Snow Blizzard

1975: Strong Earthquake Rattles Northern California

1975: Hawaii earthquake results in 47 foot tsunami

1975: Both East & West Coasts of U.S. Hit By Torrential Rains

1975: Iowa and Illinois hit with destructive group of tornadoes

1975: Hurricane Eloise Brings Destruction To Puerto Rico & Dominican Republic

1975: Typhoon Nina rains down 62 inches, Banqiao Dam fails and approximately 229,000 Chinese die

1975: Hurricane Olivia considered worst hurricane to hit Mazatlan, Singalong since 1943

1975: Canadian Prairie Heat Wave Does “Irreversible Damage” To Crops

1975: “Heat Wave Bakes European Cities”

1975: Sweden Closes Manufacturing Plants Due To Heat Wave

1975: UK record-setting torrential rainfall – 6.6 inches over 155 minutes

1975: 36 tornadoes plow over 6 U.S. states

1975: New York Times: “Major cooling widely considered to be inevitable”

1975: Newsweek Magazine: The Cooling World

1975: Chicago Tribune: “B-r-r-r-r: New Ice Age on way soon?”

1975: “Summer of a new ice age” – “things may get worse in the next few decades”

1975: During Global Cooling, Malaria Makes Comeback In Pakistan

1975: NYT: National Academy Of Sciences Warned Of A Coming Ice Age

1975: Scientists want to melt Arctic ice to stop new ice age

1975: Scientist claims oil spill will cause new ice age

1975: “Cooling Trends Arouse Fear” From NASA Scientists & Climatologists

1975: Climate Modelers Ponder Return To An Ice Age

1975: “New Ice Age Dawning?”

1975: “The Ice Age Cometh”

1975: New York Times: Solar input implicated in world’s changing climate

1976: College Professor Predicts Sea Level To Rise 330 Feet By 2050

1976: Aussie’s Flee Doomsday Predicted Tidal Wave – Scientists Were Wrong, The “Wave” Only 6 Inches

1976: Massive Earthquake Predicted For California By U.S. Govt Scientist

1976: Worst Drought In England And Wales For 500 Years

1976: Global Cooling Is Source of California’s Current Drought

1976: Extended Heat Wave In Many Parts of Europe

1976: Heat Wave In London Causes Tempers To Flare & Fisticuffs

1976: Big Thompson River Received 14 Inches Of Rain In Four Hours176 Perish From Ensuing Flood

1976: Rare Tropical Storm Blasts Southwestern U.S. With Torrential Rains & Near Hurricane Winds

1976: Violent Storm Hits Maine’s Coast – 15ft Flood Surge In Bangor

1976: “Mother Nature On Rampage” – Earthquake In Philippines & Volcano Erupts On Caribbean Island

1976: “Pine Beetle on Rampage In Oregon”

1976: 1,000 Feared Dead From Hurricane Liza – 130 MPH Winds & Mudslides Leave 70,000 Homeless

1976: Vail Ski Resort Has No Snow To Ski On

1976: Multiple western states report horrible snow conditions for ski resorts

1976: April 20 – 98 Degrees In Rhode Island And Seventeen Tornadoes In Texas

1976: Battered & Snow-Bogged Buffalo, NY Hit With Yet More Snow

1976: Torrential Rains Bring Flash Floods To California Desert Region

1976: U.S. Wheat Shipped To Flood Ravaged Pakistan — 5 Million Forced From Homes

1976: National Geographic reports Iceland cooled since 1940 – that sun drives the climate

1976: National Geographic describes massive Austrian glacier shrinkage over early 20th century

1976: NASA Study Expresses Concern About Global Cooling – Recommends Focus On Climate, Not Space Exploration

1976: CIA Experts Predict Political & Economic Upheavals From Global Cooling Over Next 40 Years

1977 : “Second Coming Of The Ice Age”

1977: “Huge Antarctica Ice Mass Appears To Be Collapsing…Could Raise Levels of World’s Oceans By 20 Feet…”

1977: Antarctica Iceberg Is 45 Miles Long & 25 Miles Wide

1977: National Geographic: “The Year the Weather Went Wild” – climate cooling blamed

1977: Professor Says CO2 Has Saved The Planet From An Ice Age

1977: Tornado In Bangladesh Killed Hundreds Of People

1977: Giant Earthquake’s Tsunami Plows Through Indonesia

1977: Earthquake ‘Swarm’ Shakes Aleutian Islands – Too Many Quakes To Count

1977: Almost Every State Registers At Least 90 Degrees During Great Heat Wave

1977: Heat Wave Said To Be A Result of Atmosphere Being In A “Rut”

1977: Drought Plagues California – Concerns That All of S. California Will Be Impacted

1977: Worst Drought In California History – Year 2

1977: Western U.S. Drought Blamed On Global Warming

1977: Arctic Tundra Fire Burns Half-Million Acres – Lightning Caused

1977: 46 Dead From Johnstown, Pennsylvania Flood

1977: 2 Feet of Snow Buries New York While Torrential Rain Deluge Causes California Mudslides

1977: “Cyclone, Tidal Wave Wreak Havoc In India” – 10,000 Dead, 2 Million Homeless

1977: Severe weather creates coffee shortage fears

1977: Massive Forest Fires In New Mexico

1977: Blizzard With 80 Degree Below Zero Temperature Conditions Roars Through U.S. Midwest

1977: Caribbean Island Nation Suffers From Severe Drought, Many Near Starvation

1978: Freak Tornado Strikes New Delhi, India

1978: “we’re entering little ice age’ 

1978: 80 MPH Winds & Snow Blizzard Cripples Ohio, Indiana & Kentucky

1978: Freak 1-Day Rain Downpour Unearths Corpses In California

1978: Indochina Monsoon Deluge Threatens Millions

1978: Torrential Rain Causes Rock Slides In Arizona & Mudslides In California

1978: U.S. Scientists Fear Indiana-Sized Bulge of Earth’s Crust In S. California

1978: 8 Inches of Rain Cause Severe Flooding In Arizona

1978: Chinese Authorities Act To Protect Workers & Students From Extreme Heat Wave

1978: Huge Iceberg Floating In S. Atlantic Is 30 Times Larger Than Manhattan Island

1979: World Climate Conference: Continuing extreme weather could lead to political instability

1979: Midwest Blizzard Leaves 29 Dead In Wake – Chicago Closed Down By Huge Storm

1979: 2nd Massive Snow Blizzard In a Week Smothers Chicago

1979: Record Rain Deluge Finally Ends Florida’s Drought

1979: Drought In Soviet Union Likely Cause Crop Prices To Increase

1979: Earth’s Strongest, Most Massive Storm Ever – Typhoon Tip

1979: Hood Canal Bridge In Washington Destroyed By Windstorm – 100+ MPH Gusts

1979: “French Riviera Swept By Huge Tidal Wave”

1979: Storm dumps 24″ of rain on Houston & Texas areas

1979: Another Bad Drought In The Making For Northern California

1979: Extreme Rainfall Creates Record Floods In Alabama

1979: Mississippi Floods: Heavy Rainfall of 20 Inches Over 3 Days

1979: Massive Earthquake & Tidal Wave Flatten 6 Towns In Columbia

1979: “Cooling trend expected to continue into next century”

1979: Scientist Predict Global Warming, Then Global Cooling

1979: Skylab’s Crash Caused By NASA Underestimating Solar Warming of Atmosphere

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