Month: September 2017

Plummeting September Temperatures In The US

US September temperatures peaked in 1931, and have plummeted since the 19th century.

This is particularly important, because the US is the only large area with meaningful long term temperature data.

NOAA publishes fake red maps like this one month after month – with almost all the data simply made up.

Global Climate Report – July 2017 | State of the Climate | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

The people generating these maps are not scientists – they are crooks paid to push the global warming agenda.

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September 16, 2017 at 06:42AM

Plummeting September 16 Temperatures In The US

September 16 used to be a very hot day in the US, but temperatures have plummeted over the past century.

On this date 90 years ago, the Mississippi Valley was over 100 degrees.

The Mississippi  Valley was also having the worst flood in US history.

People who say the climate is getting hotter or more extreme come in three categories. – idiots, liars and lying idiots.

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September 16, 2017 at 06:12AM

Record Hurricanes On September 16

On this date in 1928, Palm Beach was destroyed by a hurricane, almost two years the day after Miami was destroyed by a 1926 hurricane. This was after the hurricane killed thousands of people in the West Indies.

17 Sep 1928, 1 – Great Falls Tribune at Newspapers.com

The storm then went on to kill thousands of people at Lake Okeechobee, which flooded to an area larger than the state of Delaware.

22 Sep 1928, Page 1 – The Morning Herald at Newspapers.com

On this date in 1988,  Hurricane Gilbert hit Mexico with winds close to 200 MPH and an all-time record low barometric pressure of 26.13 inches.

People who say that hurricanes are getting worse come in three categories. – idiots, liars and lying idiots.

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September 16, 2017 at 05:41AM

Are Doomsday Scenarios Best Seen As Failed Predictions Or Political Detonators?

The so-called ‘Theory of Himalayan Environmental Degradation’ predicted an environmental collapse by the end of last millennium, threatening the life of millions of people. Fortunately, the all-encompassing crisis did not materialize.

The article shows that the ‘Theory’ failed to take into account the vast ecological variation in Himalaya and thus generalized its contentions to the whole mountain range on the basis of deficient data. But, on the other hand, what would have happened if the prediction had not been made? A doomsday scenario like the Theory of Himalayan Degradation can, from the perspective of positivist hypothesis testing, be viewed a posteriori as a failed prediction; but from another perspective it can be seen as an alarm clock that triggered a series of policy initiatives and new knowledge.

Introduction

From time to time, doomsday scenarios enter global academic and political discourses. The gloomy future that was intimated in The Limits to Growth created great havoc in the 1970s (Meadows et al., 1972). More recently, Huntington’s notion of the Clash of Civilisations (1993) activated a heated debate over the future of multiculturalism. A hallmark of such scenarios is that they rarely come true. The 1984 passed much more pleasantly than Huxley envisaged. But should we thereby dismiss them as useless, as failed predictions that the world would have made better without? This article looks at one such prediction. The ‘Theory of Himalayan Environmental Degradation’ predicted an environmental collapse in the world’s greatest mountains by the end of last millennium, threatening the life of millions of people. Fortunately, the all-encompassing crisis did not materialize. But what would have happened if the prediction had not been made? The article asks if doomsday scenarios like the Theory of Himalayan Degradation could be regarded as an alarm clock which sets academics and politicians in motion, rather than ridiculing them on hindsight as nothing more than failed predictions.

Full paper

 

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September 16, 2017 at 05:12AM