This makes you wonder what the White House sees as threatening about this information?
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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).
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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
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Oh well.. Obama will tell the lib-left and their adoring media what they want to hear.. They will canonize him, even though he still lives..
Wouldnt wants facts to get in the way of that slight floral aroma, would you?
Obama is also presiding over the longest ever period with no major hurricane (Cat3 or greater) making US landfall. From Dr. Roger Pielke Jr:
Bold mine. Pretty clear to me (and SCOTUS as well). Gonna have to go with the text of the document itself on this one.
Mark
I don’t get any of this. Obama was born during a hurricane, so that doesn’t make him a legitimate president?
I think we “owe it to our kids” not to leave them with $18 trillion in debt (and counting).
Considering the multi billion super spying program that failed to predict one insider would blow it in the open, Obama is trying to cut any loose ends… LOL
Eliza says:
June 24, 2013 at 3:51 pm
AW: I don’t think Obama really has a clue about atmospheric physics.
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or the economy, or debt, or jobs, or spending, or the IRS,NSA,DOJ,Bengazi >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I do certainly agree with your original comment.
Obama is going to have the NSA is going to declare AGW skeptical communications a national security threat, and turn loose the IRS and EPA on those wicked skeptics.
And historical facts, as Mr. Orwell pointed out, are very malleable in the hands of great leaders and their teams.
David L. says:
June 24, 2013 at 2:50 pm
Godwin’s Law should be expanded to include variants of “we owe it to the children” or “do it for the children”.
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Isn’t that “Do it TO the Children” as in saddle them with $50,000 in debt before they are even out of short pants, much less high school?
Unite Against Greenfleecing says:
June 24, 2013 at 3:28 pm
Stop picking on Obama, he’s probably thinking post presidency. The green swindle is very lucrative for group thinking mediocrity. Think Al Gore 2.
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PLEASE, I just ate dinner…
UK Met Office, paper “Anthropogenic aerosol forcing of Atlantic tropical storms”
Storms could have happened.
See Tallbloke’s Talkshop
Gail, I think it would be more realistic if we considered debt liability per taxpayer.
Have a peek.
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Second term blues…
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Folks, any more of the birth certificate discussion will be snipped, don’t even bother to post it.
“Originally the internet appeared to give the people a voice. That was a horrifying concept to [the gang of thugs from Chicago a.k.a. The D’oh!bama Administration], who are now doing their best to counter that. This will get worse before it gets better.” [Codetech at 3:52PM 6/24/13]
I was just thinking about that this afternoon as I wondered if the Demonocrats made sure that their harassing of the average American citizen (a kind of internet terrorizing) by monitoring their phone calls and internet posts became known in order to put a chilling effect on internet and other communication. Communication and Truth are both enemies to totalitarians.
Well, it won’t “chill” me. Listen up! Dope! You can censor all you like. The truth (about Benghazi and all the other e — v — il you have done) WILL come out. “What was whispered in the inner rooms [will be shouted] from the housetops.”
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Eliza, while I agree with most of what you said, the Barack Hussein Obama administration is perpetrating so much damage on our liberty, that to get him out on what you perceive to be a mere technicality (a Constitutional REQUIREMENT, as pointed out), would have prevented (and could still prevent) untold harm. That is, in this case, the birthplace issue is of VITAL importance. Sadly, it became un-PC among an influential coterie of short-sighted, eager-to-be-seen-as-“cool,” conservative journalists to mention the topic anymore. So, we don’t.
LOL. Physics? He doesn’t even know the difference between an “inhaler” (for asthma) and a “breathalyzer.” [Dope on the campaign trail in 2007 or 2008] And one of his great ideas for “saving the planet” in 2008 was to properly inflate your car tires (tyres). WHAT A DOPE!
Maybe Obama was afraid Snowden would leak it to the Chinese or worse, the press!
I do not get twitter. The platform makes the conversations difficult to follow and the design is useless as a meaningful debate forum.
Anthony, There could be tweets as well for Droughts of the 1930s, for Tornadoes, for heat waves in June/July of 34 and 36, For several great floods, etc.
The Man With Biggest Carbon Footprint In The World most likely reported Steven’s tweet as spam, which should remove it from their timeline, but not from Steven’s. I can see the reply if I look at the timeline on Steven’s twitter page, but not the Twitter feed of many who has 41,000 metric ton carbon footprint.
Deleted or simply reported as spam (there could be programs which can block from timeline, haven’t searched), it is extremely disturbing that someone in the WH would do that.
Oh, and rather disturbing that someone probably gets a very nice salary for keeping track of Twitter for the WH.
A pretty disingenuous statement if you ask me. President Obama has only served one full term during the active hurricane season. So, let’s do some fact-checking
During Benjamin Harrison’s term (1889-1893, sandwiched between Grover Cleveland’s terms) Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison
Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States
In office: March 4, 1889 – March 4, 1893
only 3 hurricanes hit, and none of those were major storms either.
Data from the same NOAA source: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/All_U.S._Hurricanes.html
Chronological List of All Hurricanes: 1851 – 2012
1889 Sep LA, 1 1 982 70 —–
1890s
1890 None
1891 Jul TX, C1, N1 1 974 80 —–
1891 Aug FL, SE1 1 985 70 —–
1892 None
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Whats up with that?
thelastdemocrat and Alan D McIntire: Arthur was born here but he probably wasn’t a U.S. citizen at all because citizenship followed that of the father, at that time, and incorrect court and administrative interpretations of the 14th that have culminated in the ultimate fraud of anchor baby citizenship had not yet come into play.
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temp: natural born citizen requires both parents to be citizens (and born here or overseas if a parent was in the “armies of the state”). Currently, the parents can be NBC, 14th amendment born citizens (although there really shouldn’t be many true meaning 14th citizens still alive), or naturalized by law from Congress.
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Mark T: You’ve fallen for one of the biggest disinformation campaigns regarding the meaning of NBC which conflates it with the 14th. The 14th amendment has absolutely nothing to do with NBC and it can’t based on principles of Constitutional legal construction where earlier words/phrases can’t lose their meaning unless explicitly changed and the 14th didn’t change Article 2 Clause 5. There were 3 types of citizens before the 14th. The vast majority were NBCs. A few old folks were still article 2 clause 5 Citizens of the United States (mostly prior British Subjects who supported the revolution), and the rest were naturalized citizen by Congressional acts. The 14th amendment was only intended for freed slaves, but “subject to the jurisdiction” which was intended and discussed during debates by the writers to mean total jurisdiction has been distorted and recently used by the NBC disinformation campaign of both major political parties. It’s not hard to do but requires review outside of the propaganda machine. In some ways it is similar to the climate catastrophe propaganda campaign that this site has done so much to expose.
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Hmm, seems like you can’t talk about harvesting a certain kind of fruit – thanks for allowing the rest through 😀
Here’s what happened to the Mysterious Tweet: Snowden did it!