Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Australia is suffering a rare “cyclone sandwich” – two gigantic tropical cyclones, Cyclone Marcia (cat 5 – like Katrina) and Cyclone Lam (cat 4) are smashing into the North of Australia at the same time as seen in the NASA/NOAA satellite photo.
Details here
Since my hometown is near the centre of the predicted track of Cyclone Marcia, naturally I am taking an interest in weather updates. I was more than a little shocked when I read the following:
JT, commenting on the Brisbane Times – February 20, 2015, 6:07AM
These type of weather events could happen further south in future and be more intense with global warming…….if anyone has to suffer out of this one I hope it is a climate change denier, if anyone.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/cyclone-marcia-live-coverage-20150219-13iuaw.html
Thankfully this level of vicious fanaticism seems to be rare – natural disasters normally bring people together, we instinctively help each other to survive the worst which nature can throw at us.
The fact that such a sentiment could be voiced, in the face of a weather event which may yet cause severe loss of life, in my opinion shows what a toxic philosophy climate alarmism can be. The comment I saw today, is in my opinion no different to the misanthropy which led to the creation of the 10:10 video.
To at least some fanatics, whose lives are consumed by the alarmist message of hatred towards “deniers”, suffering and pain are acceptable, as long as the pain is visited upon the targets of their hatred.
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I know it’s wrong, but every time I hear about a developing severe winter storm, I cannot suppress the wicked hope it drops 2 meters of snow on Washington DC. My aim has been poor this year, and residents of Boston have suffered grievously. There must be something wrong with my weather voodoo doll.
It is a comment of casual hatred, “If anyone suffers, might as well be….” and blithe stupidity.
A couple of clues for the poster.
Many people are suffering every minute of everyday across the earth. No need to casually wish more suffering on anyone, there is plenty already.
Storms do not differentiate between alarmists and skeptics. If a weather event causes suffering for one, then both suffer. Unless of course alarmists are expecting to be moved to “climate-safe-houses” across the globe.
Woo hoo! Real life “sharknado”!
Cyclones battering Australian coast bring ‘Sharknado’ to life as locals find shark washed up on beach
http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/02/20/sharknado-is-real/
Why don’t we accept the fact that an alarmist’s first reaction to ANY bad weather is a friendly “damn the deniers”.
Always ready.
Tropical cyclones look like they are on the decline in Australia
http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/climatology/trends.shtml
A hint for those who don’t know Australia..
We get droughts.. often
We get flooding rains.. sometimes.
Qld and NT get cyclones,.. often.
NOTHING unusual or extreme is happening with Australia’s weather !!!
Its just NATURAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY !!
Looks like , despite all the hype..
…. Marcia was a low Cat 3 cyclone at most !
http://jennifermarohasy.com/2015/02/know-cyclone-marcia-category-5-landfall/
The proper response is “Give me the credit for the reduction in cyclone numbers.”
See, most of them are ignorant of the facts.
Saying “What a terrible person you are” doesn’t work for them, or for onlookers when they see this sort of thing as justice. They (wrongly) blame us for causing cyclones. So their comments feel like ‘biter bit’, or ‘turnabout is fair play’, or Karma.
Much better to get the facts out there.
It only shows how much of a religion has climate change become for him. It is normal for religious believers to wish for punishment upon sinners.
Take a Bex and have a good lie down Holocausters-
http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/history/wa/onslow.shtml
From another one of your ‘deniers’
I was told in my local newspaper that there were winds of 285km/h that hit Yappoon. It seems like most of the media took the line from the BOM without looking at the facts. Based on what I have seen on here and jonova, the winds never even made it past 210, which are bad enough, but not bad enough for the media.
It matters not! The media misinformation, as usual in Aus, has done its job in promoting alarmism. Facts? Who needs facts?
Never happened before 🙂
Try cyclone Dora and Gertie in Feb 1971 funny enough roughly same location exact same month
http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/history/dora.shtml
http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/history/gertie71.shtml