This makes you wonder what the White House sees as threatening about this information?
![Goddard-tweet[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/goddard-tweet1.gif)
NYT’s Andrew Revkin points out the inanity of it:
Whatever your views on #AGW, disturbing to see @WhiteHouse delete factual tweet on hurricane history: http://t.co/NWakXMz9Om Open society?
— Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ (@Revkin) June 24, 2013
Let’s do some fact checking.
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland
Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms (1885–1889 and 1893–1897).
| Grover Cleveland | |
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| 24th President of the United States | |
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March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1897 In office March 4, 1885 – March 4, 1889 |
Obama’s term is January 20th 2009 to present. Source
Now let’s check the hurricanes for these periods:
From this NOAA source: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/All_U.S._Hurricanes.html
I’ve made screencaps of the two presidential terms of Grover Cleveland and totaled the numbers of hurricanes as listed by NOAA:
I count 27, rather than Goddard’s 26 (Note: 27 if you include the 1888 TS that NOAA included in the list of hurricanes, I’m guessing some post facto revision of this “hurricane six“) but the point remains the same. During President Obama’s term, Jan 20th 2009 to present, there have been only three US landfalling hurricanes according to the same NOAA data:
I find it interesting that NOAA puts in the disclaimer about Sandy, their exact disclaimer:
* – Indicates that the hurricane center did not make a U.S. landfall (or substantially weakened before making landfall), but did produce the indicated hurricane-force winds over land. In this case, central pressure is given for the time that the hurricane winds along the coast were the strongest.
Even though it didn’t make landfall, although it did affect the USA, but is listed, we will count it, Irene is also debatable, for weak wind speeds, but we’ll go with what NOAA says here.
The point is that there’s been far worse periods of US landfalling hurricanes during presidential terms, and that’s a fact.
Obama is also presiding over the longest ever period of major hurricane drought (Cat3 or greater) without making US landfall. From Dr. Roger Pielke Jr:
The graph above provides an update to data on the remarkable ongoing US “intense hurricane drought.” When the Atlantic hurricane season starts next June 1, it will have been 2,777 days since the last time an intense (that is a Category 3, 4 or 5) hurricane made landfall along the US coast (Wilma in 2005). Such a prolonged period without an intense hurricane landfall has not been observed since 1900.
Why is the White House afraid of these facts?
UPDATE: We’ll see how long my tweet lasts:
We have an obligation to future generations to act on climate change: http://t.co/wMpgpJJ4rO
— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) June 24, 2013
I still don’t see what was deleted, both of those tweets still exist.
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Reblogged this on What Say you and commented:
I sent a tweet to commentator @greggutfeld on twitter on this, I told Mr. Goddard I was stupefied.
Q: Why is the White house afraid of these facts?
A: Because CAGW (aka climate change) is a POLITICAL enterprise and not a SCIENTIFIC one!
Andrew Holland @TheAndyHolland 43m
@SteveSGoddard @Revkin totally irrelevant! Who cares about total volume? What matters is loss an damage, plus future projections.
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future projections!….rotfl
…then you can make up anything you want
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Are we sure that wasn’t actually an “NSA pull”, for, you know, possible ‘national security’ reasons?
I don’t think the message was deleted, twitter only shows the first series of messages and as you can see on the screenshot that person replied 13 hours after the original message. The rest aren’t displayed.
The only Climate Change in DC is the political climate, which hasn’t looked so good for Mr Obama as late.
Now is the time for politicians to claim credit for stopping the “greatest risk in our times” before the “peer reviewed” scientific community declares it over.
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It’s part of Obama’s transparency. “Now you see me. Now you don’t.” There are multiple, serious scandals that he’s trying to hide or run from. He’s out to distract the media and the public from those scandals. He’s about to try to dodge “the buck” with a CAGW address. He can’t afford to have a few “inconvenient” facts possibly “stop the buck” where it belongs.
Well … who tweeted before Goddard and who tweeted after him?
I’m not seeing Steve’s tweet …
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The White House spinners appear to be warming up their response for the avalanche of factual refutations that will follow Obama’s sure to be filled with lie’s climate speech on Tuesday.
@ur momisugly Frank K. says:
June 24, 2013 at 1:44 pm
Q: Why is the White house afraid of these facts?
A: Because CAGW (aka climate change) is a POLITICAL enterprise and not a SCIENTIFIC one!
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Precisely.
The same as everything else with the Obama regime. Anything – and I mean anything – that could potentially reflect negatively on Obama is taboo, and could cost you your career, or even your life.
Mr. President, you owe it to future generations to end this fraud now.
Frank K. says:
June 24, 2013 at 1:44 pm
Q: Why is the White house afraid of these facts?
A: Because CAGW (aka climate change) is a POLITICAL enterprise and not a SCIENTIFIC one!
And first prize for answering a rhetorical question with the bleeding obvious goes to….
Although he can do a lot of damage between now & then
NObama 16
If the tweet is there, they put it back. The White House has already acknowledged that they deleted it.
Hang on. The white house actually deleted a tweet ? How ? *confused *
Don’t understand what you are saying. Who deleted whose tweet?
Missing a word here: “Obama is also presiding over the longest ever period of major hurricane (Cat3 or greater) to make US landfall. From Dr. Roger Pielke Jr:”
“…longest ever period WITHOUT a major hurricane to make US landfall.”??
Bruce
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This is incredibly confusing. What tweet was deleted?
obama thinks the book “1984” is an operator’s manual for his presidency.
Under obsoc, those tweets are thoughtcrimes.
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL
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Why not invert Pjelke’s graph into a probability graph – probability of seeing a hurricane on any one day?
Its just, to the scientific illiterates we are dealing with, the big no hurricane days bar at the end looks like a hockey stick… 🙂
I don’t do Twitter, but how is that supposed to work? I’ve never heard of the ability of twitterer ‘A’ to delete a reply. They can block the responses, but I don’t think that’s the same thing as deleting. If they have the ability to delete, AFAIK, that’s a special arrangement.
There’s the whole #twittergulag thing, but that’s something else.
Does anybody on Earth understand Twitter?
Facts to a Leftist are like Kryptonite to Superman.