Guest post by David Middleton Hurricane Irma is really bad. It may be the worst storm to hit the U.S. since 1935… But it is NOT the most powerful Atlantic hurricane ever recorded. So… Why do they have to lie about this? Hurricane Irma, the most powerful in recorded history, makes landfall in Caribbean islands…
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September 7, 2017 at 12:51PM
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It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”
(Yogi Berra)
The purpose of this note is briefly to summarize two alternative views about global population trends, those of the United Nations Population Division … Continue reading
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September 7, 2017 at 12:33PM
By Keith Randall, Texas A&M Marketing and Communications Hurricane Harvey was billed as a once-in-every-500-year event, and it more than lived up to its billing. It produced rainfall amounts that will re-write the weather books in Texas and the United States, says a Texas A&M University expert. John Nielsen-Gammon, who is a Regents Professor of…
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September 7, 2017 at 12:21PM
September 7 used to be a very hot day in the US, but September 7 temperatures have plummeted over the past 120 years.
On this date in 1939, AR CA CO GA IA IL IN KS LA MN MO MS NE OH OK SC SD TN TX WI all recorded temperatures over 100 degrees.
Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin was 104 degrees. Today’s forecast high is 70 degrees.
Other very hot September 7th’s included 1922 and 1925.
Since 1960, 100 degree readings on September 7 have been very rare. If climate scientists were actual scientists, they would want to understand this rather than altering the data and trying to bury it. But they aren’t scientists – they are criminals stealing from the public coffers.
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September 7, 2017 at 12:13PM
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