Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Washington Post seems to think Presidents they don’t like can cause hurricanes.
Another hurricane is about to batter our coast. Trump is complicit.
By Editorial Board
September 11 at 7:45 PM…
President Trump issued several warnings on his Twitter feed Monday, counseling those in Florence’s projected path to prepare and listen to local officials. That was good advice.
Yet when it comes to extreme weather, Mr. Trump is complicit. He plays down humans’ role in increasing the risks, and he continues to dismantle efforts to address those risks. It is hard to attribute any single weather event to climate change. But there is no reasonable doubt that humans are priming the Earth’s systems to produce disasters.
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It is difficult to think of a claim more ridiculous – though to be fair the Post article does go on to quote climate scientist Kevin Trenberth. But Washington Post does have historical precedent when they blame individuals for severe weather events.
Back in the late 1600s, the Salem Witch Trials accused defendants of using black magic to cause bad weather, during a prolonged period of bad weather.
… The Salem witch trials fell within an extreme cold spell that lasted from 1680 and 1730 — one of the chilliest segments of the little ice age. The notion that weather may have instigated those trials is being revived by Salem State University historian Tad Baker in his forthcoming book, “A Storm of Witchcraft” (Oxford University Press, 2013). Building on Oster’s thesis, Baker has found clues in diaries and sermons that suggest a harsh New England winter really may have set the stage for accusations of witchcraft.
According to the Salem News, one clue is a document that mentions a key player in the Salem drama, Rev. Samuel Parris, whose daughter Betty was the first to become ill in the winter of 1691-1692 because of supposed witchcraft. In that document, “Rev. Parris is arguing with his parish over the wood supply,” Baker said. A winter fuel shortage would have made for a fairly miserable colonial home, and “the higher the misery quotient, the more likely you are to be seeing witches.” …
Read more: https://www.livescience.com/19820-salem-witch-trials.html
Washington Post is accusing President Trump of causing warm weather and hurricanes, whereas the Salem trials accused people of causing cold weather. But The Washington Post also claims that CO2 causes more damaging winter storms – so maybe the Post is not so different in their thinking to the historical Salem witch hunters.
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TDS and CCDS, a match made in heaven.
“Yet when it comes to extreme weather, Mr. Trump is complicit. He plays down humans’ role in increasing the risks, and he continues to dismantle efforts to address those risks. It is hard to attribute any single weather event to climate change. But there is no reasonable doubt that humans are priming the Earth’s systems to produce disasters.”
There’s considerable doubt that humans are “priming the Earth’s system to produce disasters”, given that the warming we’ve had since the LIA (not all of which is anthropogenic) hasn’t increased weather-related disasters. It’s completely plausible that a warming world will actually *reduce* the impact of weather-related disasters. And there is no “reasonable doubt” at all that rich fossil-fueled nations are much more resilient to extreme weather events than poor nations with little fossil fuel use.
But even if you granted the premise that Trump’s policy will have negative effects down the road (perhaps by pretending that the efforts Trump is “dismantling” would actually accomplish anything useful), Florence is happening *now*, and nothing that Trump has done in his brief term in office could have a detectable influence on Florence.
WaPo is a joke – Old Headline from WaPo – “World to End Tomorrow – Women and Minorities to Suffer the Most” New Headline – “World to End Tomorrow – Trump is the Reason!”
So, the Hate Preachers were wrong, it wasn’t the homosexuals causing bad weather, it was Trump, all along.
So it only takes 18 months for the climate to change due to CO2???? Michael Mann LIED???? IPCC lied??
Come on, this makes the climate change cult look like the fanatics and liars they are.
So now that Florence is weakening, it will be great to see the media praise President Trump’s accordingly for the the storm’s decreasing impact.
I do not intend to hold my breath waiting for WaPo to even acknowledge, no less praise, any potentially positive Trump influence. I don’t look good blue.
Potus should order WaPo CNN et al to cut their CO2 footprint to 1990 levels
Since presidential environmental policy causes hurricanes, we now know why there were so few in the previous few years, why isn’t Obama taking credit?
Patience, grasshopper.
If Trump is complicit in Cat 2 Florence, why isn’t Obama complicit in Cat 3 Sandy? Perhaps they are giving Trump credit for reducing the strength of land falling hurricanes on the east coast.
After Hurricane Florence, Donald Trump may have another system to deal with… This article says that Isaac may be worth watching next week. Hopefully, the government handles Florence well. http://texasstormwatch.com/2018/09/95l-less-likely-to-develop.html
That would be very funny.
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/sat/satlooper.php?region=atl&product=wv-mid
This kind of open hack-job propaganda has become the norm rather than the exception.
The damage to journalism is probably even greater than the damage to science.
The only positive I can find is that they pretty much announce to the world at large that they are not to be trusted.
never underestimate the stupidity and gullibility of the average democrat.
Current max wind speed is 105 mph. That was very compassionate of DJT to weaken the storm. I doubt if the WaPo will credit him for it, though.
How could President Trump be complicit in climate-change disasters, such as hurricane Florence, if CO2 emissions have decreased since he has been in office? In fact, the 15.8 metric tons per person in 2017 is the lowest measured levels in 67 years. In contrast, emissions have risen in Europe. So why isn’t Europe getting the blame? Why should they get credit for signing on to the Paris agreement even though they have no intention of keeping their commitments? Is virtue signalling all that matters when it comes to climate change?
From Investor’s Business Daily a few months ago:
“Last year [2017], European output of CO2 rose 1.5%, while U.S. output fell 0.5%. For the record, the disaster predicted when President Trump left the Paris climate agreement and rejected draconian EPA restrictions on power plants hasn’t materialized. On the contrary, the U.S. model has been shown to be superior.”
“The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s latest energy report notes that, from 2005 to 2017, U.S. energy related emissions of carbon dioxide plunged by 861 million metric tons, a 14% drop. … Question: Over the same period, how did the rest of the world do? Emissions rose by 21% to 6.04 billion metric tons over the 12 years, mostly due to booming economic growth in India and China, where coal-fired energy output continues to expand.”
See more at https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/u-s-co2-levels-drop-again/
Now MSNBC (and the other ABCNNBCBS mouthpieces) add their voices to the many other media outlets the past two days: As if it were coordinated somehow. /sarchasm – The gaping whole between the news media and reality.
MSNBC: How Can ‘Climate Change Deniers’ Respond to Hurricane?
newsbusters.org ^ | 9/12/2018 | Kyle Drennen
Posted on 9/13/2018 at http://www.freerepublic.com 11:21:20 AM by rktman
The transcript continues at the link above.
I just mashed my finger with a hammer. Trump is complicit.
A bee stung my dog. Trump is complicit.
The wind is starting to pick up a bit. Trump is complicit.
I have an upset stomach. Trump is complicit.
Whatever is wrong, Trump … .
Let’s just get right down to the simplest of all possible claims, by designating “human-caused climate change” by a new name — Trump-caused climate change. In this way, nobody has to defend the greenhouse effect anymore, because the issue has totally shifted perspectives from a magical molecule to an evil wizard.
Think of the beauty of it — now climate “science” can metamorphose fully to POLITICAL “science”. Only ONE human causes climate change, and that human is Trump. It makes things so much easier.
What will happen when hits the winter jet stream from the north?
What will happen when what hits the winter jet stream? Trump? Whatever happens, the media will report it as unprecedented and the greatest evil the planet has ever encountered.
“Washington Post: President Trump “is complicit” in Hurricane Florence Because Climate Change”
A statement like this makes perfect sense, considering how little globalwarmists specifically, and liberals in general, know about history. They act as though hurricanes never happened before ‘global warming’. Of course, these are the same people who see Joseph Stalin as a hero who created the perfect Worker’s Paradise.
Ain’t that interesting!?
Turns out that while researching genealogy, I lost a couple great great etc. Aunts during those trials.
A third GGGGGGGAunt was acquitted and released.
Why?
She challenged the legality of Rev. Samuel Parris’s use of “spiritual” visions and evidence.
With the Reverend daughter’s testimony about visions, dreams and whatnot discarded, the witch trial case collapsed.
Unfortunately, the Rev. Samuel Parris’s fervor combined with his child’s visions and dreams regarding Rebecca Nurse and Mary Eastey were allowed during the Reverend’s rush to convict and terminate.
The simile to CO₂ caused climate change and the Washington Post’s hand waving is very apt.
1) Discard arbitrary adjustments
2) Discard modeled stuff
3) Discard estimates and assumptions
4) Discard corrected or infilled temperatures from distant temperature stations
And the Washington Post article is exactly like crusading Rev. Samuel Parris’s witch hunt; all emoting religious cause coupled with a thirst for blood. Without a mote of merit to their claims.
So President Trump is complicit in the weakening and the lack of damage from Florence.
Nope. That was Obama.
“Yet when it comes to extreme weather, Mr. Trump is complicit. ” That is like saying that a Climate Scientist tracked the weather between January 2009 to 2017 and that sunny days were more prevalent during that 8 years so Trump is responsible for the excessive rainfall in the mid-Atlantic this summer. And they wonder why their subscriptions are down and people are tuning out?
Hurricane Florence continues to weaken, down to 105MPH, might get down to 95-100 when it come onto land.
3:00 PM EDT Thu Sep 13
Location: 33.6°N 76.1°W
Moving: WNW at 10 mph
Min pressure: 955 mb
Max sustained: 105 mph
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
The Compost is once again a babbling newspaper.
Hurricane Florence weakened and virtually has the strength of a tropical storm. The radar shows strong precipitation on the North Carolina coast.
http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mtpw2/product.php?color_type=tpw_nrl_colors&prod=conus×pan=24hrs&anim=html5
This is a load of complete garbage because The Washington Post.
Wasn’t the money that Trump decided not to give to the UN shysters made up by others?
So ….
More coal protests in Aus;
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/hunter-coal-train-driver-yells-abuse-at-protester-who-boarded-his-train-20180914-p503nx.html
Apart from being really stupid, it’s illegal to be anywhere in the rail transport corridor unauthorised.
Glad you picked up the story Eric. I am wondering if you saw where I posted it on Dr. Spencer’s post the other day?
This crap from the leftist media is totally out of hand and over the top.
“A ludicrous thing to blame on Trump…. hurricanes”
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/12858/