Oh boy. The propaganda gets thicker. It’s a Forrest Gump moment.
Billy McKibben connects the weather dots, except it spells out nothing more than – sh** happens. This is one of the most hilarious propaganda videos I’ve ever seen, showing weather events (and some not weather events), just like have happened for millions of years. Except this time the meme is “there’s something really wrong with our weather”. 
The smokestack in reverse at the end is a nice touch, which is a hat tip to the parent organization 350.org
Watch the video:
OK let’s look at the claims, from the front page of climatedots.org
Across the planet now we see ever more flood, ever more drought, ever more storms. People are dying, communities are being wrecked — the impacts we’re already witnessing from climate change are unlike anything we have seen before.
350.org, Bill McKibben’s parent of climatedots.org says:
And what does this 350 number even mean?
350 is the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide—measured in “Parts Per Million” in our atmosphere. 350 PPM—it’s the number humanity needs to get back to as soon as possible to avoid runaway climate change.
And who made the 350 “safe” declaration? Well of course it is everyone’s favorite arrested scientist, James Hansen:
Where did this 350 number come from?
Dr. James Hansen, of NASA, the United States’ space agency, has been researching global warming longer than just about anyone else. He was the first to publicly testify before the U.S. Congress, in June of 1988, that global warming was real. He and his colleagues have used both real-world observation, computer simulation, and mountains of data about ancient climates to calculate what constitutes dangerous quantities of carbon in the atmosphere. The full text of James Hansen’s paper about 350 can be found here.
It follows then that the date of the “safe” level should be determined. This is easy to do using MLO’s CO2 graph, the most cited graph on CO2 in the world
Source: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/
So ~1987 is the year where the atmosphere became “unsafe”.
How about those pre-1987 weather disasters Billy?
I’ve removed the ones after 1987 from the list below
From NOAA in 1999: NOAA RELEASES CENTURY’S TOP WEATHER, WATER AND CLIMATE EVENTS
Click here for background on the weather events listed below.
– Galveston Hurricane, 1900
historic photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
– Dust Bowl, 1930s
– Super Tornado Outbreak, 1974
– Hurricane Camille, 1969
– New England Hurricane, 1938
– Tri-state Tornado, 1925
– The Great Okeechobee Hurricane & Flood, 1928
– The Storm of the Century, 1950
– Florida Keys Hurricane, 1935
– New England Blizzard, 1978
Top Global Weather/Water/Climate Events (no particular order):
Click here for background on the climate/weather events listed below.
– Yangtze River Flood, China, 1931
– North Vietnam Flood, 1971
– Great Iran Flood, 1954
– Bangladesh Cyclone, 1970
– China Typhoons, 1912, 1922
– Typhoon Vera, Japan, 1958
– Asian Droughts (India 1900,1907,1965-67; China 1907,1928-30,1936,1941-42; and Soviet Union 1921-22)
– Sahel Drought, Africa, 1910-1914, 1940-44, 1970-85
– Iran Blizzard ,1972
– Europe Storm Surge, 1953
– Great Smog of London, 1952
– El Niño, 1982-83
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And there are more at this big list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_death_toll
McKibben and his 350.org/connect the dots followers are full of it.
According to Psychology Today, it may just be McKibben’s search for meaning in the emptiness in his head:
Humans have a rocky relationship with randomness. On the one hand, we declare that “shit happens”–an acknowledgment that bad things sometimes occur for no particular reason. But more often than not, our minds resist randomness, searching for meaning even where none exists.
I suppose it is all part of the illogic of climate hysteria.
And since McKibben relies heavily on TV news videos for his propaganda, it confirms exactly what I have been saying here:
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Did you mention the Great Flood?, I think I read it on the Bible, Old testament if am not wrong.
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I nominate Bill McKibben to win Olympic gold in the long distance shark jumping and an Olympic record in pointless scaremongering. The backwards steam going back in to the power station chimney obviously means that modern electric supplies clearly suck.
But all of this bloviating means nothing because nobody’s watching other than the already convinced and we observers watching yet another apocalyptic scare smash into the iceberg of Reality.
If it’s Rio, it’s not real….
Lets not forget the Year Without a Summer, a 194 years ago.
McKibben has no science qualifications, of course.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_McKibben
REPLY: Yes but he has feelings, that’s what really counts. /sarc – Anthony
Healthy animals excrete away from where they live and eat if possible. These delusionalists claim excretia that isn’t their own as their personal adornment, and demand we all pay to clean up their hallucination.
Sh** happens.
Sometimes mega-sh** happens.
Reblogged this on Ahrcanum.
– “I’ve removed the ones after 1987 from the list below” – in your list I see events in 1991, 93, & 98
REPLY: Blogging from home, kids distracting me, I thought I got them all, fixed thanks -A
There are plenty of events throughout history including the great storm which hit England in 1703 and killed between 8,000 + 15,000 people, the exact figures aren’t known
This attempt to create climate hysteria appears to be failing. In fact it is so unreasoned that it may be creating more skeptics as the call for more and more drastic remedies converges with the reality of a government that is clearly incompetent, if not downright inimical to to its own citizens.
They’re ramping it up. And we have to keep stomping it out. Nonetheless, I’ve come to the conclusion: I’m glad I’m getting old.
Gordon Bennet.
Isn’t 450 the “absolute” doomsday event for these guys… or is that just the next benchmark on an ever repeating doomsday cultist prediction list.
temp says:
April 21, 2012 at 9:11 am
We’ll get to 450 on December 21st this year…
temp says:
Isn’t 450 the “absolute” doomsday event for these guys…
It’s carbonheit 459!
What on Earth will they make of that great big chunk of rock that will one day smash into Earth, as similar ones have done over millenia? Now that will cause a splash or two, or a dust storm of some significance! I’d like to see the USEPA regulate for that one! With CO2 levels in the atmpshere 20 times higher in the geological past & no runaway global warming happened, how to do they account for that little probem? 🙂
Why the demonizing Mr. Watts? Your tactic begins with the pejorative label, “Billy”, with reference to Bill McKIbbon. Dr. Hanson, acclaimed by his peers and scientific organizations all over the world, has already been shuffled off to the demon den. Obviously, this is a tactic intended to discredit the work of these men, and all the others who assert positions with which you disagree.
I do not detect “hysteria” in the positions taken by McKibbon, Hanson and others. I do hear deep concern and a consistent commitment to base their advice on the best well-researched data available. From a risk assessment point of view, it is far wiser to act conservatively now, as they advise, they to do nothing and risk real hardship later.
There is an immense challenge facing all of us at this moment, to fix problems which are getting worse by the day. We should see this as an unprecedented opportunity and be excited with our prospects to effect real change.
What on Earth will they make of that great big chunk of rock that will one day smash into Earth, as similar ones have done over millenia?
From the ” I have a kite and access to this blog, spaceweather, wxmaps and satellites department ”
The concentration of atmospheric gases is determined by atmospheric heights and water temperatures. Atmospheric heights are determined by the interaction of the earth’s magnetosphere with solar magnetism. When such interaction is greatest, the expanse of the ionosphere is maximized. When the relationship of magnetism between earth and sun is minimal, the ionosphere is shorter and the intraplanetary magnetic field is denser. The density of this field accomplishes two feats (1) it regulates atmospheric compression (2) it determining the rate at which infrared radiation is released (adiabatic lapse rates are considered only formulaic constants).
There are a number of self evident and well-studied factors indicative of proof for the hypothesized role of earth bound magnetism as the primary regulator of temperature (1) Seasonality- lower sun angles and shorter appearance durations have been verified to reduce heights (2) The correlation of latitudinal location with atmospheric height potential (3) The rate of movement of atmospheric pressure regimes in step with fluctuations in the rate of earth directed CMEs by the sun (4) There is an albedo response in higher latitudes for atmospheric heights (actually limits arctic sea ice minimums because without albedo heights fall>pressure falls>precipitation falls>temperatures fall>ice reforms and snow falls) (a) The East Coast will experience a taste of this example because iof the Greenland Albedo response (-North Atlantic Oscillation=Greenland high pressure Block) during the next few weeks (until tropical and subtropical Height fields overtake its capacity for effect).(5) Desert Sands albedo feedback (a) deforestation encourages similar atmospheric pressure products and temperature/precidpiation responses
Anyway, the point to this comment is that if you are concerned about the rising concentration of Greenhouse Gases, then such concern is better used by focusing concerns upon the problems associated with Global Cooling since CO2 and methane actually decrease in concentration when atmospheric heights are rising and the planet is warming (because their rate of natural production is significantly less than Nitrogen (60% concentration), Oxygen (20% Concentration), and Argon (.%) (their concentrations increase as heights and warming increase because their natural rates of production is substantially greater than CO2 (3%) and Water Vapor (4%)…
*Noteworthy notes to find WUWT references for*
1> The role volcanic aerosols in increasing atmospheric magnetism/ionosphere height potential is also noteworthy because at present the AGW community denies SO2’s magnetic properties and their effect on Earth’s Radiative Budget Equation by attributing to it the quality of infrared energy reflectivitiy (thus denying ERBE)
2..Another interesting reference point for Earth/Sun magnetic field interactions is Oceanic surface water alkalinity and temperature variance
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People don’t live long enough to have a true perspective of climate. The young-dumb have no clue and are the first targets of the propaganda. It takes decades to recover from leftist damage. Next on the target list are the moms who typically hyperventilate at anything remotely threatening their kids.
Today, people lack even basic science education and have virtually no ability to filter claims; consequently, emotions rule. Because counterfeit authorities are promoted, people have a hard time trusting anyone. How long until they reach the point where they actively attack science as a threat? Since some technologies actually are serious threats (e.g. genetically modified organisms replacing traditional food crops – at least the way Monsanto has put it into practice), how do we avoid all science being lumped in the same category?
Propagandists are busy re-assessing past events, diminishing the importance of some, ignoring others, changing data. That can only happen when the scientists and the propagandists are one in the same.
Does Gresham’s law (economics) now apply in science?
You left out the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and a bunch of other floods prior to 1987. McKibbon basically either lied or is incompetent.
Hugh Pepper says:
April 21, 2012 at 9:40 am
Why the demonizing Mr. Watts? Your tactic begins with the pejorative label, “Billy”, with reference to Bill McKIbbon…………
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Lol, “Billy” is a pejorative? Really? I would have come up with something more provacative, like dingbat Bill, or maniac McKibbon, but you take exception to Billy? Let’s not pretend skeptics aren’t demonized across this land by Billy and the minions of maniacal misanthropists. Anthony is a frequent target……. goose/gander and all of that.
While civility would have been the best way to go about discussing climate issues, the alarmists lost the claim to any such attempt many, many years ago. Skeptics tried, but we were met with some of the most vile name calling and worse. People object to pejoratives now? They should have said something way back when. I haven’t forgotten the days before sites like WUWT or Climate Audit. Nor, will I ever.
As we start to move away from the precipice of darkness, poverty, hunger and depravity the alarmists tried to push us over, we shouldn’t pretend that they didn’t almost get us there. “Billy” is about the kindest moniker I would attach to McKibbon and his ilk.
Why is the powerplant emitting so much steam? Is it operating as a spinning reserve and venting to back up windmills?
edit coming Moderator. I ask for the removal of this and previous post
I aspire to emulate people like Hugh Pepper from now on. I’m quite sure that reading the first two or three sentences and then chiming in with a predetermined response will make my life much simpler than having to actually deal with each point in an article.