From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
London, 22 March – A new report published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation challenges the popular but mistaken belief that weather extremes – such as flooding, droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires – are more common and more intense today because of climate change.
Drawing on newspaper archives and long-term observational data, the report, written by Dr Ralph Alexander, documents multiple examples of past extremes that matched or exceeded anything experienced in the present-day world.
Dr Ralph Alexander said:
“That so many people are unaware of past extremes shows that collective memories of extreme weather are short-lived.”
“The perception that extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and severity is primarily a consequence of new information technology – the Internet and smart phones – which have revolutionised communication and made us much more aware of such disasters in all corners of the world than we were 50 or 100 years ago.”
Ralph Alexander: Weather extremes in historical context (pdf)
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Au contraire
Current extremes of alarmism are unprecedented
The other group has their own set of facts and can’t be bothered by the real facts.
What for sure has changed is the whining of persons who build on a flood plain and then experience floods. The reporters recording the whining insert “Climate Change” into the report graphics. So, either the intelligence or the honesty of reporters also appears to have changed.
Right- it’s crazy that a flood is considered an unnatural event.
Lots of building in South Florida, as if there is no climate emergency and Northerners escape our warming future by moving south.
I’m not sure a 1000′ tall tower in hurricane alley makes a lot of sense either.
https://nypost.com/2024/02/16/lifestyle/miami-developers-race-to-erect-citys-tallest-tower/
When most of the immigrants came to the US the South was almost all agricultural while the North was more industrialized and needed workers.
The South is now more urbanized with lots of tech jobs, so it makes sense for those in the North to move south to a warmer, more pleasant climate.
More manufacturing jobs too, since unions drove them out of the north.
This regional migration pattern also involves inserting new people with outside viewpoints into communities who have their own local ideas. The effect is to gradually change the political atmosphere to reflect the more dominate views.
In the US, this is apparent in the agriculture communities on both coasts. For instance in both Washington and Oregon, transplants from California have succeeded in developing extremely onerous land use regulations which are destroying the small farms.
In Vermont the state legislature is increasingly populated by new members fleeing the decaying urban areas on the East coast. This has resulted in a rapid change from a former conservative state to a very liberal one, complete with a huge under funded budget and increasingly draconian laws.The 1997 Act 60, designed to equalize education spending resulted in the loss of a large number of small farms, increased sprawl and higher taxes as towns were encouraged to generate bond issues to build new educational infrastructure paid for with other towns revenue. It is a shining example of political gang rape. Thank you Howard Dean.
“…the intelligence or the honesty of reporters…”
Many reporters, far to many, do not work to inform us, they work to sell the products of their advertisers. It’s really quite straightforward, it’s revenue from advertising (about 1/3 of total revenue for the New York Times for example) that keeps the paper afloat. The 2/3 of revenue that comes from subscription payments is only sufficient to cover (or nearly cover) their costs. The “reporting” industry has been hopelessly corrupted by the advertising industry and as a consequence is the largest source of misinformation in the country.
Does that logic also apply to this website which is now ad supported as well?
No.
I supported this website directly. I see no ads. How about you?
In my youth, ok 70+ years ago in OZ we had hot weather. There were time the days were what is now 35+ deg C and no one blinked. If it lasted 5 days it was called a heat wave. If it got to 40 deg C so what. Turn on the extra fan. No air condition then.
My grand parents borne in the late 1800 in SA did not see this as a huge panic. It was just the “blood weather”.
Now if it hits 30 deg C it’s an extreme event and if it lasts 3 days it becomes a horrible heat wave. Now we all must panic..
We are all going to shrivel up and die.
Give me a break sweet snowflakes.
One year I was talking to a farmer about the current season. I was interested as a wheat crop had an effect on feed for my horses. He was complaining that the April rain had not happened and he had to plough because it was April. (Limited mind set). I told him it was going to be a late season. He panicked because it did not fit the base schedule.
Yes, the first rail was late April/early May. Those that insisted in planting whatever did what I would called a dry sow and suffered, Those that were smart got a better crop.
No, not climate change but the “bloody weather”.
Nothing has changed in my 70+ years but an increase in snowflakes who have SFA understanding of life, weather and climate.
May the snowflakes rest in peace.
Or is that pieces?
Hard to tell as they seem to be all over the place making a mess….
I had an uncle who was a life-long farmer (cattle and crops) in inland Qld.
He once said he worked on the presumption that he would have 5 reasonable years out of every 7, not in a regular cyclic pattern, and that the proceeds of “bonanza” years had to be escrowed against the inevitable “crook” years.
He observed that farmers who went bust thought that the prevailing favourable weather conditions would always be the norm, failing to appreciate that seasonal weather does not abide our calendar, is generally incomprehensible, constantly changing, swinging from “goldilocks” to “intolerable”.
Never second-guess what each season’s weather conditions might present.
Inigo Jones was the “go-to” forecaster in Australia in the 1940’s/50’s. He had a reputation for getting correct forecasts.
Correct. 🙂
Ah, Inigo Owen Jones, you should have put his middle name in – got me bloody confused there for a moment.
G’Day Richard,
.”.. you should have put his middle name in…”
My dad talked about him back when I was knee-high to a grasshopper. Never did mention a middle name. Sorry…..
There is one type of “extreme weather” now less common in the American northeast- extreme winters! That is, sub zero temperatures (F) and very deep snow. It’s weird that the lack of those extremes is considered a bad thing.
The big snow storms of 2003 and 2015 don’t seem that long ago.
For me, it was the winter of 63, in the UK.
From the article: “The perception that extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and severity is primarily a consequence of new information technology – the Internet and smart phones – which have revolutionised communication and made us much more aware of such disasters in all corners of the world than we were 50 or 100 years ago.”
It is really a consequence of climate alarmists deliberately distorting the facts about extreme weather. The Internet and Smart Phones just make it easier to spread this climate alarmist propaganda to more people. There would be no problem if not for the Climate Alarmist Liars. The lies are the problem, not the method of distribution.
Real climate scientists read old newspapers. That’s where the real weather data is kept. If you want to know what happened in the past, you have to read the history.
The history tells us that extreme weather today is no more extreme than it was in the past. There is no unprecedented extreme weather today caused by
CO2 or anything else.
History debunks climate alarmist claims of unprecedented weather today.
Which is yet another reason why history now begins circa 2015 – the woke-acene….
Anything that went before is now recast and rewritten to fit the zeitgeist…
Anyone notice, the car in the picture at the top, appears to have a bent chassis. Could that be due to all that heat? 😉
I can’t see it – a lot of cars in the 60’s and 70’s angled upwards at the front and back though.
story tip
Sen. Kennedy (LA) questions the Demogog’s expert “fact witness” about “climate change”, who can’t answer even simple questions about the Magic Molecule:
https://rumble.com/v4kzz1q-dismantling-the-cult-senator-kennedy-brutalizes-democrats-climate-change-ex.html
Sports persons are – as this athlete shows – unable to evidence a brain larger than a grape.
On this site, see Friday Funny yesterday.
There are links in comments to other Sen Kennedy videos.
Thnx, I usually skip those.
History deniers work on the presumption that if an event isn’t on youtube, it never happened.
And climate cultists (history deniers extraordinaire) rely on this to convince youngsters that every current-day weather event is “unprecedented”.
I’ve noticed that Tony Heller (one of the individuals featured in Climate: The Movie) seems to be quite good at going back in time and showing us how extreme weather events are no worse today than they were in the past. I don’t know where he gets those old newspaper clippings from, but I extent him kudos for doing what he does and hope he keeps up the good work.
His videos can be seen on YouTube.
I don’t know about the rest of the world, but the Australian government maintains a site called “Trove” which curates lots of contemporaneous newspaper reportage.
Relevant to the subject of Paul’s post here, they have quite a bit of material on the devastating 1896 heatwave across Australia –
https://joannenova.com.au/2012/11/extreme-heat-in-1896-panic-stricken-people-fled-the-outback-on-special-trains-as-hundreds-die/
Not just one archive but here’s this. (All the photos are after the event was over.)
https://www.weather.gov/iln/19780126
Ponder how an all renewables grid plus a few hours of storage would fare in a repeat of 1977-1978.
We wouldn’t steal trays from the cafeteria and slide down the hill naked if that’s what you mean.
We? I think you’re on your own on that one, mate!
There weren’t any real “hills” where I was.
But I guess you could pick your drift.
Do it naked?
Only if you were seeking a “natural” vasectomy! 😎
The great heatwave of 1540, the Paris heatwave of 1757, the 1936 heatwave, and the hottest central England July in 2006, all have one thing in common, Saturn opposite Neptune and both roughly square to Jupiter.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQemMt_PNwwBKNOS7GSP7gbWDmcDBJ80UJzkqDIQ75_Sctjn89VoM5MIYHQWHkpn88cMQXkKjXznM-u/pub