Guest essay by Larry Hamlin
On September 8, 2017 the L A Times published a story on the approach of Hurricane Irma toward the U.S. with a front page headline which invents a new climate alarmist propaganda category of hurricane the contrived and dreaded ‘Nuclear hurricane’.
This L A Times front page headline clearly demonstrates a purely climate alarmist propaganda reporting agenda and establishes that the paper is devoid of any ability to address or understand scientific data which clearly shows that Hurricane Irma is representative of major hurricane events reflected over the last 125+ years of recorded Atlantic hurricane history.
The Times fails to address scientific data which displays the Hurricane Irma major hurricane occurrence in context with many other Atlantic major hurricane events in U.S. recorded history.
Irma’s death toll while tragic and unfortunate will not place it high among the deadliest hurricanes that have occurred in U.S. history.
While the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season is not over there are many prior seasons which are at the top of the list of crating major Atlantic hurricane events.
Additionally the Times ignores and hides from its readers extensive scientific data clearly showing that neither the frequency or magnitude of global Atlantic or Pacific hurricanes is increasing over time as falsely claimed by climate alarmism propagandists.
The Times failed to address the scientific data reality that increasing global CO2 emissions simply show no connection to increasing Atlantic hurricane energy levels.
Nor do increasing global CO2 emissions show any connection to driving the occurrence of US landfalls of Atlantic hurricanes.
The Times ignored the fact that multiple times in the past three and even four Atlantic hurricanes have existed in the same time period so the recent occurrence of three Atlantic hurricanes in the same time period is not unique.
The L A Times has a clearly established track record of climate alarmism propaganda reporting while concealing from its readers extensive scientific data which undermines its flawed alarmists claims.
The occurrence of naturally occurring major Atlantic hurricanes during this years peak hurricane season period appears to have the Times in climate alarmist propaganda overdrive.
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LA TIMES yeah a real nuclear storm alright . Can’t wait for the big shake to finish off the LA Times
propaganda press . There is nothing wrong with going all religious ,it’s just that people aren’t going to pay you to have a mega phone shoved in their ear .
The next economic downturn and the LA END TIMEs will be on them . Good riddance .
When does NK threaten west coast cities instead of Guam?
Left-wing alarmist media have been waiting SO long to roll out this hurricane horror story they’ve just gone way overboard. The Guardian must’ve run 5 articles now (including one by Michael Mann) claiming ‘climate breakdown’ Armageddon is now upon us, every single one of which has been brutally undermined by NOAA admitting ‘there’s zero human influence detected’. It’s like a teenage lad having to wait 12 months before hitting the jackpot with his girlfriend and getting a bit over-excited – and has ended up being about as messy.
http://flhurricane.com/cyclone/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=98005&page=29&fpart=29&vc=1&nt=29
https://youtu.be/0sGt_3dJcJY
On a less flippant note this is a fine piece by Larry Hamlin. Well-sourced evidence everywhere, taking apart the LA Times deceitful narrative one lie at a time. In a court of law this would swing the case Larry’s way with a unanimous verdict. Quite brutal and exactly the antithesis of green climate propaganda.
I actually draw solace from the hysteria and hyperbole that has greeted the recent hurricanes in the media. The hysteria conceals a rising panic about their awareness that fewer and fewer people are being fooled by their rhetoric and more are asking why if “the science is settled” does it continuously need to be propped up with exaggeration misinformation and downright falsehoods
LA Times: Sharknado 6 Imminent… Fin Shepard missing…
Of course they do. 12 years since a major hurricane hit the US.
How many 20 year remember or paid attention to the last one?
They were kids then. Did those kids have a concept of what was happening even if they do remember?
Not likely.
(What’s the average age of those who write for The Times?)
In general, a colder world is a stormier world.
https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/0517/Why-do-planets-farthest-from-sun-have-highest-winds-Team-closes-in-on-answer
“Settled consensus climate science” has not been able to explain away the inconvenient truth that winds on Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune move so much more rapidly than on Earth. The outer planets have thick atmospheres, while Mars’ is thin. Yet, generally, the colder the windier.
@ur momisugly clipe
“(What’s the average age of those who write for The Times?)”
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Mentally, emotionally, or physically? Then that answer would depend on their identity perspective in either category.
From my perspective I would say:
Mentally … 12 yro
Emotionally … 8 yro
Physically … who knows or cares
Sorry, I meant @ur momisugly Gunga Din
“Settled consensus climate science”
= We don’t have a clue
There’s the consensus.
The unspoken consensus.
Considering how Irma was used to demand that science deniers be locked up, could they show some humility and board themselves up in a shack for a wee little bit.
Actually they need to go to the wood shed many time over for lying.
No way Jose?
http://flhurricane.com/modelanimator.php?storm=12&year=2017&title=12
The climate people play a long range game. Every weather event is an occasion to rise up assault the populace with propaganda and count that down the road when the political stars align they can give it to us good an hard. Like Mencken says.
Political Science Indeed. BTW, I saw a news reporter actually say that the big story was what COULD have happened. (He was in whichever Florida city was spared Irma’s wrath.) Now that’s a story!
When all’s said and done, Miami was fortunate Irma exhausted itself before it hit. Sensible precautions were taken by the government, and as inconvenient as evacuation was for the people who left, perhaps a thought could be spared for the islands hit by Irma’s full force. British and US Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos etc.
I don’t imagine the LAT will be highlighting either of these points.
In the last figure — four hurricanes with locations were given. This map refers to which year?
Dr. S. Jeevananda Reddy
It’s just a Freudian slip by the LA Times of their desire for Irma to kill 100,000 people like the Hiroshima nuclear bomb. The communist-environmentalist activists view people as pests to be eradicated
all this charting it according to its power as it hit US coast rather misses the point (if not deliberately obscures it)
when it was devastating the virgin Isles, Barbuda, etc -wasn’t that one of the worst hurricanrs, if no the worst in that region? at the top of the scale? A nuclear hurricane?
and it could well have hit E Florida with that same force. Dodged a bullet there… learn from it, don’t explain it away
Can you explain why the max sustained wind at Barbuda was 118 mph while the NHC was claiming 185 mph. Or was it over 200 mph or 225 mph or was it even greater?
On September 8, 2017 the L A Times published a story on the approach of Hurricane Irma toward the U.S. with a front page headline which invents a new climate alarmist propaganda category of hurricane the contrived and dreaded ‘Nuclear hurricane’.
In fairness to the L A Times they didn’t invent the term, that was the mayor of Miami Beach, the L A Times was just quoting him (hint that’s what the ‘ stands for).
eyesonu September 13, 2017 at 11:08 am
Can you explain why the max sustained wind at Barbuda was 118 mph while the NHC was claiming 185 mph. Or was it over 200 mph or 225 mph or was it even greater?
Because the windgauge was destroyed before the minimum pressure was reached, gusts of 155mph were recorded.
The minimum pressure was reached just after 118 mph (actually recorded in kph).
Griff,
Irma was far from the worst hurricane ever to hit the Lesser Antilles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hurricane_of_1780
Also, have you noticed that, instead of setting a new record low for Arctic sea ice extent as you said was a sure thing, 2017 looks as if it will beat 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2016.
a weather forum is about to ban me for daring to say irma was HYPED……pointing out nowhere got even half of the lowest predicted storm surge and other saying naples is bracing for a 15 foot wall of water that cant miss them……NO such wall of water existed……the gov scott claiming irma was far more powerful than andrew was 100% HYPE.
I followed the location of the eye wall and checked local wind velocities concurrently and winds never even were very close to those reported in the “news” including the weather channels. Got really tired of the idiots standing out in the rain.
It’s even worse. I think they stole it from the mayor of Miami or some other politician who made this reference a week ago.
First time I have been online since I lost power in the storm.
I weathered the right front quadrant eyeball.
Fortress Nick held strong.
House never shuddered, never lost a shingle.
Except for the 60 Bismarck Palm leaning against my roof…2 broken tiles, getting a little worse each day.
Hard to get any gas or service.
Cell phone but no I termed or anything else.
Power out for 3-4 weeks most likely.
Was incredible! Amazing videos when I can post them
One of my cats weathered the storm outside, she went out to use the bathroom and must have panicked and was out there for the entire Fury of the hurricane. She showed up about 8:30 as the eye wall passed over I mean as the I passed over a little damp but happy to be home. And I found three kittens the day before the storm in my pump house that had just been born so I have a new kitty and three kittens. They were safe and sound in my most interior closet tucked away in the back purring happily while the world was turned to wet splinters around us. Tree damage is horrendously bad. I lost a lot of palm trees fruit trees, Bush’s you name it. Just about everything is shredded. But the house stood fast. So once I get that tree off the roof I should be good. The house was so solid it stopped at two foot wide 60 ft tall Bismarck palm that fell against the corner and stopped and there it sits. Got to go now I found out I have internet when I came over here to Costco. Just want to let everyone know that at least in East Lee County where the Iowa went straight overhead there was some flooding but not in my house I haven’t heard about anybody being hurt or killed, of course I haven’t seen any news. Everything’s a real mess and it’ll be a while before we’re back to normal. I hope everyone else was as lucky. Till I get back online at home I just want to say the panicking was not the right thing to do. I think our leaders failed us. They should have directed A for more orderly and rational process of evacuating people who needed to get out and not evacuating people that did not. I realize that might be easier said than done but advising 20 million people to panic was not the right thing to do.
If you have seen pictures of the devastation in the Virgin Islands where the 185mph winds scoured every leaf off every tree, then uprooted the trees, then blew down most of the houses, destroyed most of the boats, and electrical grid, you might say that a nuclear blast could not have done more physical damage. (Of course, without the radiation).