Are humans changning planet Earth?

[orogenicman]

By David Attenborough:

 

[ScienceRocks]

Yes,

but I believe humans are the peak of evolution on earth. Should we treat our home better, yes....

 

[Gracie]

Yes.

 

[Mr. H.]

Without a doubt. But not on a level requiring the destruction of entire industries and millions of jobs.

 

[orogenicman]

Part 2:

 

[Abraham3]

Without a doubt. But not on a level requiring the destruction of entire industries and millions of jobs.

First, while some might claim they want to see it, the fossil fuel industry (and why do you never name it?) is not going to disappear overnight. It is very, very likely that it will never disappear at all. What is wanted is to replace it. We would like governments and industries to work hard to develop new technologies and improve existing ones so that human civilization can move away from fossil fuels and begin to rely on renewable, non-polluting, zero-carbon energy sources: wind, solar, OTEC, geothermal, fission, fusion and hydrogen.

Replacing one energy source with another, will not - in the long run - cost us ANY jobs. We will simply switch those jobs from one industry to another. I'm sure the development of the automobile costs millions of jobs worldwide in the breeding, care, training and support of horses. The development of ships made of metal eliminated an enormous class of shipwrights and other craftsmen who'd spent millenia honing their skills. The spread of computers has eliminated thousands of job categories of every description. Yet, in the long run, were our labor situation, our employment levels or our average family income harmed? Should that have stopped ANY of those developments? Were the costs too high?

And now we have a development that we actually NEED. One that will not only allow us to generate energy and power our machines more efficiently and enormously more cleanly, it will allow us to save ourselves from our ignorance and our folly.

You will have to pardon me if I choose the health of the world over the necessity that some coal miner's son take up his family's historical profession or that will choose that we should drill holes into every parcel of land and sea on our planet in search of the last dregs of the very poisons that are destroying us.

Switching to alternative energy sources is not an attack on an industry or the people it employs. It is simply another in an endless string of changes intended to make all our lives better.

 

[Mr. H.]

Without a doubt. But not on a level requiring the destruction of entire industries and millions of jobs.

First, while some might claim they want to see it, the fossil fuel industry (and why do you never name it?) is not going to disappear overnight. It is very, very likely that it will never disappear at all. What is wanted is to replace it. We would like governments and industries to work hard to develop new technologies and improve existing ones so that human civilization can move away from fossil fuels and begin to rely on renewable, non-polluting, zero-carbon energy sources: wind, solar, OTEC, geothermal, fission, fusion and hydrogen.

Replacing one energy source with another, will not - in the long run - cost us ANY jobs. We will simply switch those jobs from one industry to another. I'm sure the development of the automobile costs millions of jobs worldwide in the breeding, care, training and support of horses. The development of ships made of metal eliminated an enormous class of shipwrights and other craftsmen who'd spent millenia honing their skills. The spread of computers has eliminated thousands of job categories of every description. Yet, in the long run, were our labor situation, our employment levels or our average family income harmed? Should that have stopped ANY of those developments? Were the costs too high?

And now we have a development that we actually NEED. One that will not only allow us to generate energy and power our machines more efficiently and enormously more cleanly, it will allow us to save ourselves from our ignorance and our folly.

You will have to pardon me if I choose the health of the world over the necessity that some coal miner's son take up his family's historical profession or that will choose that we should drill holes into every parcel of land and sea on our planet in search of the last dregs of the very poisons that are destroying us.

Switching to alternative energy sources is not an attack on an industry or the people it employs. It is simply another in an endless string of changes intended to make all our lives better.

How lofty and altruistic of you. I would posit that there are n0 zero-carbon non-polluting energy sources. Think about that.

"We would like..."? Who's "we".

Poisonous dregs.

You obviously have no concept of the scope, breadth, and depth of hydrocarbons.

 

[skookerasbil]

Oh Gawd.


Orangeman needs to get some real responsibilities in life!! Only the AGW alarmist OCD's sit home worrying about this shit.

 

[skookerasbil]

Only the hoplessly naive sit home and see shit on TV and think the world is coming to an end. These fucked up weather events have been happening as long as the earth has been here.

The global warming k00ks want you to think this shit just started a few years ago!!!!


FAIL




1643
July 5 ◦First recorded tornado in US (Essex County, Massachusetts). [1]

1651
March 5 ◦South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm. [1]

1654
January 7 ◦Fire after heavy storm destroys 2/3 of De Rijp Netherlands, one dies. [1]

1667
August 27 ◦Earliest recorded hurricane in USA (Jamestown, Virginia). [1]

1682
June 10 ◦Tornado in Connecticut uproots a 3-foot diameter oak tree. [1]

1703
November 26 ◦Bristol England damaged by hurricane, Royal Navy loses 15 warships. [1]
◦A severe storm destroys the Eddystone lighthouse off Plymouth, Devon, England, killing resident designer Mr. Winstanley. [272.623]

1709
January 5 ◦Sudden extreme cold kills 1000s of Europeans. [1]

1715
July 30 ◦Ten Spanish treasure galleons from Cuba heading to Europe sink in a hurricane off Saint Lucie, Florida. [1] [421.68] [516.32] (11 ships, July 31 [493.73])

1717
December 25 ◦Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces, 1000s killed. [1]

1772
August 31 ◦Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica. [1]

1780
August 11 ◦Barbados hurricane begins. [1]
October 10 ◦Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean. [1]

1784
May 8 ◦Only known deaths by hailstones in US (Winnsborough, South Carolina). [1]

1805
June 5 ◦First recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois). [1]

1812
August 1 ◦A rare tornado hits Westchester County, New York. [1]

1816
June 6 ◦10 inches of snowfall in New England, USA; the "year without a summer" (due to volcano Krakatoa). [1]

1825
February 3 ◦Dutch North Sea coast floods. [1]

1828
February 18 ◦More than 100 vessels are destroyed in a storm, at Gibraltar. [1]

1831
December 1 ◦Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather. [1]

1839
January 6 ◦Two-day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as "The Big Wind". [1]

1840
May 7 ◦Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi, USA, killing 317. [1]

1843
July 2 ◦An alligator falls from the sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. [1]

1850
March 29 ◦Ireland's SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die. [1]
May 27 ◦Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois destroyed by tornado. [1]

1851
July 8 ◦In Oregon City, USA, eight men playing cards are killed by lightning. [819.196]

1856
August 10 ◦Hurricane washes away 200-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana, USA. [1]

1857
September 12 ◦SS Central America, en route from Havana, Cuba, to New York, sinks off Cape Romain, South Carolina, USA in a hurricane. 426 passengers and crew drown, with 153 rescued. 3 tons of gold coins and ingots are taken to the bottom. [1] [546.36] [688.70] [1064.1391]

1861
February 20 ◦Steeple of Chichester Cathedral is blown down during a storm. [1]
Year ◦22.99m of rain falls in Cherrapunji, Assam, during year, world record. [1]

1863
December 4 ◦Storm flood ravages Nethe coastal provinces. [1]

1864
October 5 ◦Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone (approx 60,000 die). [1]

1866
January 11 ◦Steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End, England, kills 220. [1]

1867
October 29 ◦A hurricane at the British Virgin Islands sinks Royal Mail Ship Rhone, destroys Derwent and Wye, and damages Conway, Solent, and Tyne, with loss of 166 from two of the ships. [1] [269.377]

1868
April 3 ◦A Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50-foot tidal wave. [1]

1871
June 13 ◦Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador. [1]

1873
April 1 ◦British White Star passenger steamship Atlantic sinks in a storm off Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; 585 die. [1] [71.28]

1877
January 30 ◦Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces. [1]

1879
December 18 ◦The Tay Bridge in Scotland blows over in a great storm, taking evening mail train to Dundee and 76 passengers and crew. [979.647]

1880
January 9 ◦6 feet (1.8 metres) of snow falls in Seattle, Washington in five days. [1]

1881
August 4 ◦In Seville, Spain, a European record hot temperature of 122 degrees F (50 degrees C) is recorded. [1] [54]

1882
June 6 ◦Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay India) drowns 100,000. [1]
June 16 ◦17-inch diameter hailstones weighing 1.75 pounds fall in Dubuque, Iowa, USA. [1]
June 17 ◦Tornado kills 130 in Iowa, USA. [1]

1884
February 19 ◦Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Indiana kill 800 people. [1]
August 28 ◦First known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard, South Dakota, USA. [1] [5]

1886
October 12 ◦Hurricane and sea surge kill 250 at Indianola, Texas, USA. [1]

1888
March 11 ◦Great Blizzard of 1888 strikes northeast US. [1]
March 12 ◦Second day of the Great Blizzard of 1888 in northeast US (400 die). [1]
April 30 ◦Hailstones kill about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi, India. [1]
July 11 ◦Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32 feet after 24-hour rainfall. [1]

1889
January 16 ◦In Cloncurry, Queensland, an Australian record hot temperature of 128 degrees F (53 degrees C) is recorded. [1] [54]
February 8 ◦Flood ravages Dutch coast. [1]
May 31 ◦Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Pennsylvania, USA. [1]
June 12 ◦Single tornado kills 119, injures 146 (New Richmond, Wisconsin, USA). [1]

1891
July 5 ◦Hail kills six horses in Rapid City, South Dakota. [1]

1892
February 7 ◦In Verkhoyansk, Russia, an Asian record cold temperature of -90 degrees F is recorded. [54]

1893
October 1 ◦Third worst hurricane in US history kills 1,800 (Mississippi). [1]

1894
December 22 ◦Dutch coast hit by hurricane. [1]

1895
February 11 ◦-17 degrees F (-27.2 degrees C) in Braemar, Grampian (United Kingdom record). [1]

1896
May 15 ◦Tornado kills 78 in Texas. [1]
May 27 ◦First major tornado to strike urban US (Saint Louis and East Saint Louis, Missouri); kills 255 and leaves thousands homeless. [1]
June 16 ◦Temperature hits 127 degrees F at Fort Mojave, California. [1]

1897
June 24 ◦Hail injures 26 in Topeka, Kansas, USA. [1]
July 27 ◦37.5 cm (14.75 inches) of rainfall in Jewell, Maryland, USA (state 24-hour record). [1]

1899
June 29 ◦Brazo River in Texas, USA, floods 12 miles wide causing $10 million in damage. [1]



1900
September 8 ◦6,000 killed when a hurricane and tidal wave destroy Galveston, Texas, most deadly in US history. [1]

1902
March 28 ◦27.9 cm precipitation at McMinnville, Tennessee, USA (state record). [1]

1905
February 8 ◦Cyclone hits Tahiti and adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people. [1]
December 11 ◦120 degrees F (49 degrees C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record). [1]

1906
March 6 ◦Heavy storm bursts dike, flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands. [1]
March 12 ◦Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast. [1]







1907
March 19 ◦18.8cm precipitation at Lewer's Ranch, Nevada, USA (state record). [1]
June 1 ◦-27 degrees F (-33 degrees C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record low). [1]

1908
May 1 ◦World's most intense rain shower (2.47 inches in 3 minutes) at Portobelo, Panamá. [1]

1909
November 23 ◦18.2 cm (7.17 inches) of rainfall, in Rattlesnake Creek, Idaho (state record). [1]

1910
March 1 ◦An avalanche of snow hits two trains stranded for seven days outside the Cascade Tunnel below Stevens Pass, near Wellington, Washington, USA, killing 96. Deadliest avalanche in US history. [1] [377.13]

1911
July 15 ◦46 inches of rain (beginning July 14) falls in Baguio, Phillipines. [1]

1913
March 21 ◦Flood in Ohio, USA, kills 400. [1]
March 26 ◦City of Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, and Muskingum Rivers reach flood stage simultaneously. [1]
July 10 ◦The highest temperature ever recorded in the United States is at Death Valley, California: 134 degrees F (56.7 C). [1] [5]

1915
June 27 ◦100 degrees F (38 degrees C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record). [1]





August 17 ◦Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage. [1] [245.4]
September 29 ◦A hurricane claims 275 human deaths in the Mississippi Delta. [1]
December 21 ◦25.83 cm (10.17 inches) of rainfall, in Glenora, Oregon (state record). [1]

1916
January 23 ◦Temperature falls from 44 degrees F (7 degrees C) to -56 degrees F (49 degrees C) night of January 23-24, in Browning, Montana, USA. [1]
July 15 ◦22.22 inches of rain falls in Altapass, North Carolina, USA. [1]

1917
March 23 ◦Four-day series of tornadoes kills 211 in Midwest USA. [1]

1918
July 22 ◦Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park. [1]

1919
September 18 ◦Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast. [1]

1920
April 20 ◦Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama and Mississippi, USA. [1]

1921
June 3 ◦A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado, USA. [1]

1922
September 13 ◦136.4 degrees F (58 degrees C), El Aziziyah, Libya in shade (world record). [1]

1923
July 10 ◦2-pound hailstones kill 23 and many cattle (Rostov, Russia). [1]

1924
June 28 ◦Tornado strikes Sandusky and Lorain in Ohio, USA, killing 93. [1]

1925
March 18 ◦Eight 60-MPH tornadoes speed through Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee killing 689. [1]

1926
January 1 ◦Flood in Rhine strikes Cologne, Germany. [1]
September 18 ◦Hurricane hits Miami and south Florida, USA, destroying hotels, piers, marinas, mansions built in preceding years. 400 killed, 50,000 made homeless. [1] [341.116]

1927
November 3 ◦Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vermont, USA). [1]
November 17 ◦Tornado hits Washington DC. [1]

1928
May 1 ◦Six children die and ten injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania. [1]
July 6 ◦World's largest hailstones 1.5 pounds (17 inch diameter) fall in Potter, Nebraska, USA. [1] [5]
September 17 ◦Hurricane hits Lake Okeechobee, Florida, USA drowning 1,800-2500. [1]

1930
May 13 ◦Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas, USA; this is the only known fatality due to hail. [1]
June 13 ◦22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista, Greece. [1]
September 3 ◦Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic). [1]

1931
May 10 ◦Golf ball size hail falls in Burlington, New Jersey, USA. [1]
July 16 ◦The Huang He floods kill between 850,000 and 4,000,000 people (the deadliest historic natural disaster). [429]
August 31 ◦The Yangtze River floods, leaving 23 million homeless. [429]
September 10 ◦The worst hurricane in Belize history kills an estimated 1,500 people. [429]

1932
February 9 ◦US airship Columbia crashes during storm (Flushing, New York). [1]
June 19 ◦Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China. [1]
November 9 ◦Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur, Cuba; kills 2,500. [1]

1933
February 6 ◦Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 metres (112 feet), in Pacific hurricane near Manila, Philippines. [1]
August 11 ◦Temperature reaches 136 degrees F (58 degrees C) at San Luis Potosí, Mexico (world record). [1] [614.8]
November 11 ◦"Great Black Blizzard" first great dust storm in the Great Plains of the USA. [1]

1934
April 12 ◦Highest velocity wind ever recorded on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, 231 mph. [1]
May 11 ◦Over two days, the most severe dust storm to date in the USA sweeps an estimated 350 million tons of topsoil from the Great Plains across to the eastern seaboard. [129]
September 21 ◦Typhoon strikes Honshu Island, Japan, kills 4,000. [1]

1935
February 11 ◦-11 degrees F (-24 degrees C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low). [1]
April 15 ◦Another massive dust storm in the USA becomes known as "Black Sunday". [129]
September 2 ◦A hurricane slams the Florida Keys killing 423. [1]
October 25 ◦Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie and Jacmel, Haiti. [1]

1936
April 5 ◦Tupelo, Mississippi, USA virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die. [1]
April 6 ◦Tornado kills 203 and injures 1,800 in Gainesville, Georgia, USA. [1]
July 13 ◦A Midwestern U.S. heat wave sets the all-time highest temperature records for Wisconsin (46 C), Michigan (44 C), and Indiana (47 C). [1] [5]

1938
March 2 ◦Landslides and floods in Los Angeles, California, USA cause over 200 deaths. [1]
September 21 ◦Hurricane (winds 183 MPH) in New England (Long Island, New York, New Jersey) kills 500-700, wrecking tens of millions of dollars in property. [1] [500.E10]

1939
March 10 ◦Seventeen villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad, India. [1]
May 5 ◦Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky, USA. [1]
December 12 ◦Soviet prison ship Indigirka, carrying 2,500 prisoners capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 2,470 die. [1]

1940
November 12 ◦Blizzard strikes midwestern US, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes). [1]

1941
March 15 ◦Blizzard in North Dakota kills 151. [1]
March 16 ◦Blizzard hits North Dakota and Minnesota killing 60. [1]
May 25 ◦5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India. [1]

1942
January 27 ◦-19 degrees F (-27.4 degrees C), Netherlands' coldest day since 1850. [1]
April 27 ◦Tornado destroys Pryor, Oklahoma, USA killing 100, injuring 300. [1]
June 12 ◦Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City, USA. [1]
June 21 ◦129 degrees F (54 degrees C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record). [1]
July 17 ◦3 feet of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15. [1]
October 16 ◦Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta, India. [1]

1943
January 20 ◦Temperature in Lead, South Dakota is 52 degrees F, while 1.5 miles away Deadwood, South Dakota records -16 degrees F. [1]
January 22 ◦Temperature rises 49 degrees F (9 degrees C) in two minutes in Spearfish, South Dakota, USA. [1]

1944
June 23 ◦Four tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153. [1]
December 18 ◦US Destroyers Hull, Spence, and Monaghan sink in typhoon off Philippines, 790 killed. [1]
Year ◦Global mean surface temperature at peak highest point since accurate measurements in 1880, beginning of gradual decline. [58]

1945
September 16 ◦Barometric pressure at 856mb (25.55 inches) off Okinawa, Japan (record low). [1]

1946
April 1 ◦Tsunamis generated by an earthquake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo, Hawaii. [1]

1947
February 3 ◦-81 degrees F (-63 degrees C) in Snag, Yukon (North American record). [1]
April 9 ◦Tornadoes striking West Texas and Oklahoma kill 169, injuring 1,300. [1]
May 5 ◦Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 and causes $850 million in damage. [1]
July 22 ◦-8 degrees F (-13 degrees C), Charlotte Pass, New South Wales (Australian record). [1]
December 26 ◦Heavy snow blankets Northeast USA, buries New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16 hours; the same day, Los Angeles sets a record high of 84 degrees F. [1]

1949
July 31 ◦Lightning strikes a baseball field in Florida, kills the shortstop and third baseman. [1]


1951
June 23 ◦Most expensive US hailstorm (US$1.5 million crop damage and US$14 million property - Kansas). [1]
August 6 ◦Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria. [1]
August 17 ◦Hurricane winds drive six ships ashore, at Kingston, Jamaica. [1]

1952
January 14 ◦Snow storm in Sierra Nevada kills 26. [1]
March 16 ◦Greatest 24-hour rainfall: 187 cm in Cilaos, Réunion, in the Indian Ocean. [1]
March 21 ◦Tornadoes in Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky cause 343 deaths. [1]






August 15 ◦9 inches of rainfall creates a 20-foot wave in Lynmouth, England, killing 34. [1]

1953
January 31 ◦Hurricane-like winds flood Netherlands drowning nearly 2,000. [1]
May 11 ◦Tornado kills 114 in Waco, Texas, USA (US$39 million damage). [1]
June 8 ◦Cluster of six tornadoes touch down in Flint, Michigan, USA killing 113. [1]
June 9 ◦Tornado strikes Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, destroying Assumption College, killing 100. [1]
September 27 ◦Typhoon destroys 1/3 of Nagoya, Japan. [1]
December 24 ◦Wellington-Auckland (New Zealand) express train swept away in flood kills 166. [1]

1954
January 9 ◦-87 degrees F (-66 degrees C), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record). [1]
January 11 ◦Two-ton locomotive swept into ravine by avalanche - ten die (Austria). [1]
August 31 ◦Hurricane Carol (first major named storm) hits New England, 70 die. [1]





September 2 ◦Hurricane Edna batters northeast US, killing 20. [1]
September 14 ◦Hurricane Edna (second of 1954) hits New York City, causing US$50 million damage. [1]
September 26 ◦Typhoon strikes Kakodate Bay, Japan, killing over 1,600. [1]
October 5 ◦Hurricane Hazel hits Eastern US. [1]
October 18 ◦Hurricane Hazel (third of 1954) becomes most severe to hit US. [1]

1955
May 25 ◦Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall, Kansas, and most of Blackwell, Oklahoma. [1]
July 14 ◦Two killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascott racetrack, England. [1]
August 3 ◦Hurricane Connie begins pounding US for 11 days. [1]
August 17 ◦Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 and doing $1.8 billion damage. [1]

1956
May 12 ◦East Pakistan is struck by cyclone and tidal waves. [1]
July 4 ◦US most intense rainfall (1.23 inches in one minute) at Unionville, Maryland. [1]
October 20 ◦58 degrees F (15 degrees C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high). [1]

1957
June 27 ◦390 die by Hurricane Audrey in coastal Louisiana and Texas, USA. [1]

1958
April 2 ◦Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado in Wichita Falls, Texas, USA (record). [1]
June 22 ◦Game in Kansas City between Kansas City Athletics and Boston Red Sox delayed 29 minutes due to tornado. [1]
July 10 ◦The highest tsunami wave ever recorded is at Lituya Bay, Alaska, at 524m high. [5]

1959
January 9 ◦Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die. [1]
February 10 ◦Tornado in Saint Louis kills 19 and injures 265. [1]
September 17 ◦Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan and Korea. [1]
September 27 ◦Typhoon Vera hits Japanese island of Honshu, kills nearly 5,000. [1]
October 27 ◦Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico. [1]
December 16 ◦Snow falling in Lowarai Pass, West Pakistan, kills 48. [1]

1960
August 24 ◦A world-record low temperature (-88 degrees Celsuis, -127 degrees Fahrenheit) is measured in Vostok, Antarctica. [1] [5] [614.8]

1961
September 15 ◦Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph. [1]

1962
February 17 ◦Storm in Hamburg, Germany, kills 265. [1]

1963
May 28 ◦Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; estimated 22,000 die and one million houses destroyed. [1]
October 7 ◦Hurricane Flora hits Haiti and Dominican Republic, kills 7,190. [1]
December 8 ◦Three fuel tanks explode when jetliner is struck by lightning, crashing near Elkton Maryland; only case of lightning-caused crash, 81 die. [1]

1964
September 12 ◦Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, causing $17.5 million damage. [1]
December 23 ◦India and Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed. [1]

1965
April 11 ◦40 tornadoes strike US midwest killing 272 and injuring 5,000. [1]
May 11 ◦First of two cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 in India. [1]
June 2 ◦Second of two cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges River, India). [1]
September 12 ◦Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida and Louisiana; kills 75. [1]
December 15 ◦Third cyclone of year kills another 10,000 at mouth of Ganges River, Bangladesh. [1]

1966
January 11 ◦550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain. [1]
January 29 ◦Snow storm in north-east US kills 165. [1]
March 3 ◦Tornado hits Jackson, Mississippi; 3 minutes after first sighting, 57 die. [1]
March 5 ◦75-MPH air currents cause BOAC 707 crash above Mount Fuji, 124 die. [1]
November 4 ◦Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works. [1]

1967
February 1 ◦Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million and 60 lives. [1]
September 20 ◦Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38. [1]

1968
January 31 ◦Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32 inches), at Agata, USSR. [1]
May 15 ◦A tornado strikes Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA, at 10 PM, killing 36. [1]

1969
April 14 ◦Tornado strikes Dacca, East Pakistan, killing 540. [1]
April 23 ◦Over 1000 square miles flooded in Shantung Province, China. [1]
August 22 ◦Hurricane Camille strikes U.S. Gulf Coast; kills 255. [1]
December 8 ◦Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, Greece; 93 killed. [1]

1970
February 11 ◦26.37 cm (10.38 inches) of rainfall, Mount Washington, New Hampshire (state 24-hour record). [1]
August 3 ◦Hurricane "Celia" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history. [1]
September 5 ◦Estimated 15 cm (6 inches) of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record). [1]
November 13 ◦Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong, Bangladesh. [1]

1971
January 23 ◦Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska, (north of Fairbanks) reaches a US record low temperature of -80 degrees F. [1] [32.23]
February 21 ◦Series of tornadoes cuts through Mississippi and Louisiana killing 117. [1]
April 26 ◦Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15 inches in 24 hours. [1]

1972
June 9 ◦14 inches of rain in six hours bursts Rapid City, South Dakota dam, drowns 200. [1]
June 23 ◦Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history. [1]
July 22 ◦27.53 cm (10.84 inches) of rainfall, Fort Ripley, Minnesota (state 24-hour record). [1]

1973
July 7 ◦78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India). [1]
July 23 ◦Ozark Air Lines' plane knocked out of the air by lightning over Saint Louis - 36 die. [1]

1974
January 5 ◦In Vanda Station, Scott Coast, an Antarctican record hot temperature of 59 degrees F is recorded. [54]
April 3 ◦In the USA, 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states in the east, south and midwest killed approximately 315. [1]
September 18 ◦Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die. [1]
December 25 ◦Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin, Australia. [1]

1975
May 6 ◦Early warnings provided by REACT (ham radio operators) means only three people die in tornado that strikes Omaha, Nebraska. [1]
May 13 ◦Hail stones as large as tennis balls hit Wernerville, Tennessee. [1]
June 28 ◦Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Illinois). [1]
June 29 ◦20.57 cm (8.10 inches) of rainfall, Litchville, North Dakota (state 24-hour record). [1]
July 7 ◦Juneau, Alaska, reaches a record high temperature: 90 degrees F. [32.22]
July 13 ◦8.5 inches (21.6 cm) of rainfall in Dover, Delaware (US state record). [1]
September 30 ◦Five drown in flash flood of sewer and water tunnel (Niagara Falls, New York). [1]
November 10 ◦Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald and crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior. [1]

1977
January 19 ◦Rare snow flurries in southeast Florida, USA. [290.15]
February 1 ◦Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives. [1]
July 20 ◦Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 80 and causing US$350 million damage. [1]

1978
January 25 ◦(to January 27) The Great Blizzard of 1978 strikes the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes, killing 70. [841]
February 5 ◦(to February 7) The Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 hits the New England region and the New York metropolitan area, killing about 100 and causing over US$520 million in damage. [841]

1979
January 12 ◦Record blizzard strikes American midwest killing over 100. [1]
February 13 ◦Intense windstorm strikes western Washington State and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge. [1] [840]
February 18 ◦-52 degrees F (-47 degrees C), Old Forge, New York (state record). [1]
◦The African Sahara Desert experiences snow for 30 minutes. [1] [840]
April 10 ◦A tornado hits Wichita Falls, Texas, killing 42 people (the most notable of 26 tornadoes that day). [840]
May 17 ◦-12 degrees F (-11 degrees C), on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record). [1] [54]
July 26 ◦Estimated 109 cm (43 inches) of rain falls in Alvin, Texas (national record). [1]
August 14 ◦A freak storm during the Fastnet Race results in the death of 15 sailors. [840]
September 3 ◦Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm, kills over 1,000. [1]
September 12 ◦Hurricane Frederic makes landfall at 10:00 p.m. on Alabama's Gulf Coast. [840]
October 3 ◦A EF4 Tornado hits Windsor Locks, Connecticut, USA causing extensive damage to the town. [840]
October 16 ◦A tsunami in Nice, France kills 23 people. [840]
October 19 ◦13 US Marines die in a fire at Camp Fuji, Japan as a result of Typhoon Tip. [840]



http://worldtimeline.info/weather/weat1951.htm




Board is littered with phonies and/or the hopelessly naïve bubble dwellers. In most cases, its likely the latter.

 

[orogenicman]

Oh Gawd.


Orangeman needs to get some real responsibilities in life!! Only the AGW alarmist OCD's sit home worrying about this shit.

Oh Gawd, if you didn't watch the videos and have nothing to say about their content, and are more concerned about what I do with my time (which I doubt is actually true), then you are nothing but a troll with nothing meaningful to add to the thread. So fuck off.

 

[orogenicman]

By the way, skookerasbil, your attempt to disrupt this thread with your trolling spam has been reported. Have a good day.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Only the hoplessly naive sit home and see shit on TV and think the world is coming to an end. These fucked up weather events have been happening as long as the earth has been here.

The global warming k00ks want you to think this shit just started a few years ago!!!!


FAIL




1643
July 5 ◦First recorded tornado in US (Essex County, Massachusetts). [1]

1651
March 5 ◦South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm. [1]

1654
January 7 ◦Fire after heavy storm destroys 2/3 of De Rijp Netherlands, one dies. [1]

1667
August 27 ◦Earliest recorded hurricane in USA (Jamestown, Virginia). [1]

1682
June 10 ◦Tornado in Connecticut uproots a 3-foot diameter oak tree. [1]

1703
November 26 ◦Bristol England damaged by hurricane, Royal Navy loses 15 warships. [1]
◦A severe storm destroys the Eddystone lighthouse off Plymouth, Devon, England, killing resident designer Mr. Winstanley. [272.623]

1709
January 5 ◦Sudden extreme cold kills 1000s of Europeans. [1]

1715
July 30 ◦Ten Spanish treasure galleons from Cuba heading to Europe sink in a hurricane off Saint Lucie, Florida. [1] [421.68] [516.32] (11 ships, July 31 [493.73])

1717
December 25 ◦Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces, 1000s killed. [1]

1772
August 31 ◦Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica. [1]

1780
August 11 ◦Barbados hurricane begins. [1]
October 10 ◦Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean. [1]

1784
May 8 ◦Only known deaths by hailstones in US (Winnsborough, South Carolina). [1]

1805
June 5 ◦First recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois). [1]

1812
August 1 ◦A rare tornado hits Westchester County, New York. [1]

1816
June 6 ◦10 inches of snowfall in New England, USA; the "year without a summer" (due to volcano Krakatoa). [1]

1825
February 3 ◦Dutch North Sea coast floods. [1]

1828
February 18 ◦More than 100 vessels are destroyed in a storm, at Gibraltar. [1]

1831
December 1 ◦Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather. [1]

1839
January 6 ◦Two-day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as "The Big Wind". [1]

1840
May 7 ◦Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi, USA, killing 317. [1]

1843
July 2 ◦An alligator falls from the sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. [1]

1850
March 29 ◦Ireland's SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die. [1]
May 27 ◦Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois destroyed by tornado. [1]

1851
July 8 ◦In Oregon City, USA, eight men playing cards are killed by lightning. [819.196]

1856
August 10 ◦Hurricane washes away 200-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana, USA. [1]

1857
September 12 ◦SS Central America, en route from Havana, Cuba, to New York, sinks off Cape Romain, South Carolina, USA in a hurricane. 426 passengers and crew drown, with 153 rescued. 3 tons of gold coins and ingots are taken to the bottom. [1] [546.36] [688.70] [1064.1391]

1861
February 20 ◦Steeple of Chichester Cathedral is blown down during a storm. [1]
Year ◦22.99m of rain falls in Cherrapunji, Assam, during year, world record. [1]

1863
December 4 ◦Storm flood ravages Nethe coastal provinces. [1]

1864
October 5 ◦Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone (approx 60,000 die). [1]

1866
January 11 ◦Steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End, England, kills 220. [1]

1867
October 29 ◦A hurricane at the British Virgin Islands sinks Royal Mail Ship Rhone, destroys Derwent and Wye, and damages Conway, Solent, and Tyne, with loss of 166 from two of the ships. [1] [269.377]

1868
April 3 ◦A Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50-foot tidal wave. [1]

1871
June 13 ◦Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador. [1]

1873
April 1 ◦British White Star passenger steamship Atlantic sinks in a storm off Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; 585 die. [1] [71.28]

1877
January 30 ◦Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces. [1]

1879
December 18 ◦The Tay Bridge in Scotland blows over in a great storm, taking evening mail train to Dundee and 76 passengers and crew. [979.647]

1880
January 9 ◦6 feet (1.8 metres) of snow falls in Seattle, Washington in five days. [1]

1881
August 4 ◦In Seville, Spain, a European record hot temperature of 122 degrees F (50 degrees C) is recorded. [1] [54]

1882
June 6 ◦Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay India) drowns 100,000. [1]
June 16 ◦17-inch diameter hailstones weighing 1.75 pounds fall in Dubuque, Iowa, USA. [1]
June 17 ◦Tornado kills 130 in Iowa, USA. [1]

1884
February 19 ◦Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Indiana kill 800 people. [1]
August 28 ◦First known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard, South Dakota, USA. [1] [5]

1886
October 12 ◦Hurricane and sea surge kill 250 at Indianola, Texas, USA. [1]

1888
March 11 ◦Great Blizzard of 1888 strikes northeast US. [1]
March 12 ◦Second day of the Great Blizzard of 1888 in northeast US (400 die). [1]
April 30 ◦Hailstones kill about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi, India. [1]
July 11 ◦Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32 feet after 24-hour rainfall. [1]

1889
January 16 ◦In Cloncurry, Queensland, an Australian record hot temperature of 128 degrees F (53 degrees C) is recorded. [1] [54]
February 8 ◦Flood ravages Dutch coast. [1]
May 31 ◦Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Pennsylvania, USA. [1]
June 12 ◦Single tornado kills 119, injures 146 (New Richmond, Wisconsin, USA). [1]

1891
July 5 ◦Hail kills six horses in Rapid City, South Dakota. [1]

1892
February 7 ◦In Verkhoyansk, Russia, an Asian record cold temperature of -90 degrees F is recorded. [54]

1893
October 1 ◦Third worst hurricane in US history kills 1,800 (Mississippi). [1]

1894
December 22 ◦Dutch coast hit by hurricane. [1]

1895
February 11 ◦-17 degrees F (-27.2 degrees C) in Braemar, Grampian (United Kingdom record). [1]

1896
May 15 ◦Tornado kills 78 in Texas. [1]
May 27 ◦First major tornado to strike urban US (Saint Louis and East Saint Louis, Missouri); kills 255 and leaves thousands homeless. [1]
June 16 ◦Temperature hits 127 degrees F at Fort Mojave, California. [1]

1897
June 24 ◦Hail injures 26 in Topeka, Kansas, USA. [1]
July 27 ◦37.5 cm (14.75 inches) of rainfall in Jewell, Maryland, USA (state 24-hour record). [1]

1899
June 29 ◦Brazo River in Texas, USA, floods 12 miles wide causing $10 million in damage. [1]



1900
September 8 ◦6,000 killed when a hurricane and tidal wave destroy Galveston, Texas, most deadly in US history. [1]

1902
March 28 ◦27.9 cm precipitation at McMinnville, Tennessee, USA (state record). [1]

1905
February 8 ◦Cyclone hits Tahiti and adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people. [1]
December 11 ◦120 degrees F (49 degrees C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record). [1]

1906
March 6 ◦Heavy storm bursts dike, flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands. [1]
March 12 ◦Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast. [1]







1907
March 19 ◦18.8cm precipitation at Lewer's Ranch, Nevada, USA (state record). [1]
June 1 ◦-27 degrees F (-33 degrees C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record low). [1]

1908
May 1 ◦World's most intense rain shower (2.47 inches in 3 minutes) at Portobelo, Panamá. [1]

1909
November 23 ◦18.2 cm (7.17 inches) of rainfall, in Rattlesnake Creek, Idaho (state record). [1]

1910
March 1 ◦An avalanche of snow hits two trains stranded for seven days outside the Cascade Tunnel below Stevens Pass, near Wellington, Washington, USA, killing 96. Deadliest avalanche in US history. [1] [377.13]

1911
July 15 ◦46 inches of rain (beginning July 14) falls in Baguio, Phillipines. [1]

1913
March 21 ◦Flood in Ohio, USA, kills 400. [1]
March 26 ◦City of Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, and Muskingum Rivers reach flood stage simultaneously. [1]
July 10 ◦The highest temperature ever recorded in the United States is at Death Valley, California: 134 degrees F (56.7 C). [1] [5]

1915
June 27 ◦100 degrees F (38 degrees C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record). [1]





August 17 ◦Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage. [1] [245.4]
September 29 ◦A hurricane claims 275 human deaths in the Mississippi Delta. [1]
December 21 ◦25.83 cm (10.17 inches) of rainfall, in Glenora, Oregon (state record). [1]

1916
January 23 ◦Temperature falls from 44 degrees F (7 degrees C) to -56 degrees F (49 degrees C) night of January 23-24, in Browning, Montana, USA. [1]
July 15 ◦22.22 inches of rain falls in Altapass, North Carolina, USA. [1]

1917
March 23 ◦Four-day series of tornadoes kills 211 in Midwest USA. [1]

1918
July 22 ◦Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park. [1]

1919
September 18 ◦Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast. [1]

1920
April 20 ◦Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama and Mississippi, USA. [1]

1921
June 3 ◦A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado, USA. [1]

1922
September 13 ◦136.4 degrees F (58 degrees C), El Aziziyah, Libya in shade (world record). [1]

1923
July 10 ◦2-pound hailstones kill 23 and many cattle (Rostov, Russia). [1]

1924
June 28 ◦Tornado strikes Sandusky and Lorain in Ohio, USA, killing 93. [1]

1925
March 18 ◦Eight 60-MPH tornadoes speed through Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee killing 689. [1]

1926
January 1 ◦Flood in Rhine strikes Cologne, Germany. [1]
September 18 ◦Hurricane hits Miami and south Florida, USA, destroying hotels, piers, marinas, mansions built in preceding years. 400 killed, 50,000 made homeless. [1] [341.116]

1927
November 3 ◦Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vermont, USA). [1]
November 17 ◦Tornado hits Washington DC. [1]

1928
May 1 ◦Six children die and ten injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania. [1]
July 6 ◦World's largest hailstones 1.5 pounds (17 inch diameter) fall in Potter, Nebraska, USA. [1] [5]
September 17 ◦Hurricane hits Lake Okeechobee, Florida, USA drowning 1,800-2500. [1]

1930
May 13 ◦Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas, USA; this is the only known fatality due to hail. [1]
June 13 ◦22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista, Greece. [1]
September 3 ◦Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic). [1]

1931
May 10 ◦Golf ball size hail falls in Burlington, New Jersey, USA. [1]
July 16 ◦The Huang He floods kill between 850,000 and 4,000,000 people (the deadliest historic natural disaster). [429]
August 31 ◦The Yangtze River floods, leaving 23 million homeless. [429]
September 10 ◦The worst hurricane in Belize history kills an estimated 1,500 people. [429]

1932
February 9 ◦US airship Columbia crashes during storm (Flushing, New York). [1]
June 19 ◦Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China. [1]
November 9 ◦Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur, Cuba; kills 2,500. [1]

1933
February 6 ◦Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 metres (112 feet), in Pacific hurricane near Manila, Philippines. [1]
August 11 ◦Temperature reaches 136 degrees F (58 degrees C) at San Luis Potosí, Mexico (world record). [1] [614.8]
November 11 ◦"Great Black Blizzard" first great dust storm in the Great Plains of the USA. [1]

1934
April 12 ◦Highest velocity wind ever recorded on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, 231 mph. [1]
May 11 ◦Over two days, the most severe dust storm to date in the USA sweeps an estimated 350 million tons of topsoil from the Great Plains across to the eastern seaboard. [129]
September 21 ◦Typhoon strikes Honshu Island, Japan, kills 4,000. [1]

1935
February 11 ◦-11 degrees F (-24 degrees C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low). [1]
April 15 ◦Another massive dust storm in the USA becomes known as "Black Sunday". [129]
September 2 ◦A hurricane slams the Florida Keys killing 423. [1]
October 25 ◦Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie and Jacmel, Haiti. [1]

1936
April 5 ◦Tupelo, Mississippi, USA virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die. [1]
April 6 ◦Tornado kills 203 and injures 1,800 in Gainesville, Georgia, USA. [1]
July 13 ◦A Midwestern U.S. heat wave sets the all-time highest temperature records for Wisconsin (46 C), Michigan (44 C), and Indiana (47 C). [1] [5]

1938
March 2 ◦Landslides and floods in Los Angeles, California, USA cause over 200 deaths. [1]
September 21 ◦Hurricane (winds 183 MPH) in New England (Long Island, New York, New Jersey) kills 500-700, wrecking tens of millions of dollars in property. [1] [500.E10]

1939
March 10 ◦Seventeen villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad, India. [1]
May 5 ◦Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky, USA. [1]
December 12 ◦Soviet prison ship Indigirka, carrying 2,500 prisoners capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 2,470 die. [1]

1940
November 12 ◦Blizzard strikes midwestern US, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes). [1]

1941
March 15 ◦Blizzard in North Dakota kills 151. [1]
March 16 ◦Blizzard hits North Dakota and Minnesota killing 60. [1]
May 25 ◦5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India. [1]

1942
January 27 ◦-19 degrees F (-27.4 degrees C), Netherlands' coldest day since 1850. [1]
April 27 ◦Tornado destroys Pryor, Oklahoma, USA killing 100, injuring 300. [1]
June 12 ◦Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City, USA. [1]
June 21 ◦129 degrees F (54 degrees C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record). [1]
July 17 ◦3 feet of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15. [1]
October 16 ◦Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta, India. [1]

1943
January 20 ◦Temperature in Lead, South Dakota is 52 degrees F, while 1.5 miles away Deadwood, South Dakota records -16 degrees F. [1]
January 22 ◦Temperature rises 49 degrees F (9 degrees C) in two minutes in Spearfish, South Dakota, USA. [1]

1944
June 23 ◦Four tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153. [1]
December 18 ◦US Destroyers Hull, Spence, and Monaghan sink in typhoon off Philippines, 790 killed. [1]
Year ◦Global mean surface temperature at peak highest point since accurate measurements in 1880, beginning of gradual decline. [58]

1945
September 16 ◦Barometric pressure at 856mb (25.55 inches) off Okinawa, Japan (record low). [1]

1946
April 1 ◦Tsunamis generated by an earthquake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo, Hawaii. [1]

1947
February 3 ◦-81 degrees F (-63 degrees C) in Snag, Yukon (North American record). [1]
April 9 ◦Tornadoes striking West Texas and Oklahoma kill 169, injuring 1,300. [1]
May 5 ◦Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 and causes $850 million in damage. [1]
July 22 ◦-8 degrees F (-13 degrees C), Charlotte Pass, New South Wales (Australian record). [1]
December 26 ◦Heavy snow blankets Northeast USA, buries New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16 hours; the same day, Los Angeles sets a record high of 84 degrees F. [1]

1949
July 31 ◦Lightning strikes a baseball field in Florida, kills the shortstop and third baseman. [1]


1951
June 23 ◦Most expensive US hailstorm (US$1.5 million crop damage and US$14 million property - Kansas). [1]
August 6 ◦Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria. [1]
August 17 ◦Hurricane winds drive six ships ashore, at Kingston, Jamaica. [1]

1952
January 14 ◦Snow storm in Sierra Nevada kills 26. [1]
March 16 ◦Greatest 24-hour rainfall: 187 cm in Cilaos, Réunion, in the Indian Ocean. [1]
March 21 ◦Tornadoes in Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky cause 343 deaths. [1]






August 15 ◦9 inches of rainfall creates a 20-foot wave in Lynmouth, England, killing 34. [1]

1953
January 31 ◦Hurricane-like winds flood Netherlands drowning nearly 2,000. [1]
May 11 ◦Tornado kills 114 in Waco, Texas, USA (US$39 million damage). [1]
June 8 ◦Cluster of six tornadoes touch down in Flint, Michigan, USA killing 113. [1]
June 9 ◦Tornado strikes Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, destroying Assumption College, killing 100. [1]
September 27 ◦Typhoon destroys 1/3 of Nagoya, Japan. [1]
December 24 ◦Wellington-Auckland (New Zealand) express train swept away in flood kills 166. [1]

1954
January 9 ◦-87 degrees F (-66 degrees C), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record). [1]
January 11 ◦Two-ton locomotive swept into ravine by avalanche - ten die (Austria). [1]
August 31 ◦Hurricane Carol (first major named storm) hits New England, 70 die. [1]





September 2 ◦Hurricane Edna batters northeast US, killing 20. [1]
September 14 ◦Hurricane Edna (second of 1954) hits New York City, causing US$50 million damage. [1]
September 26 ◦Typhoon strikes Kakodate Bay, Japan, killing over 1,600. [1]
October 5 ◦Hurricane Hazel hits Eastern US. [1]
October 18 ◦Hurricane Hazel (third of 1954) becomes most severe to hit US. [1]

1955
May 25 ◦Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall, Kansas, and most of Blackwell, Oklahoma. [1]
July 14 ◦Two killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascott racetrack, England. [1]
August 3 ◦Hurricane Connie begins pounding US for 11 days. [1]
August 17 ◦Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 and doing $1.8 billion damage. [1]

1956
May 12 ◦East Pakistan is struck by cyclone and tidal waves. [1]
July 4 ◦US most intense rainfall (1.23 inches in one minute) at Unionville, Maryland. [1]
October 20 ◦58 degrees F (15 degrees C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high). [1]

1957
June 27 ◦390 die by Hurricane Audrey in coastal Louisiana and Texas, USA. [1]

1958
April 2 ◦Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado in Wichita Falls, Texas, USA (record). [1]
June 22 ◦Game in Kansas City between Kansas City Athletics and Boston Red Sox delayed 29 minutes due to tornado. [1]
July 10 ◦The highest tsunami wave ever recorded is at Lituya Bay, Alaska, at 524m high. [5]

1959
January 9 ◦Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die. [1]
February 10 ◦Tornado in Saint Louis kills 19 and injures 265. [1]
September 17 ◦Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan and Korea. [1]
September 27 ◦Typhoon Vera hits Japanese island of Honshu, kills nearly 5,000. [1]
October 27 ◦Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico. [1]
December 16 ◦Snow falling in Lowarai Pass, West Pakistan, kills 48. [1]

1960
August 24 ◦A world-record low temperature (-88 degrees Celsuis, -127 degrees Fahrenheit) is measured in Vostok, Antarctica. [1] [5] [614.8]

1961
September 15 ◦Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph. [1]

1962
February 17 ◦Storm in Hamburg, Germany, kills 265. [1]

1963
May 28 ◦Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; estimated 22,000 die and one million houses destroyed. [1]
October 7 ◦Hurricane Flora hits Haiti and Dominican Republic, kills 7,190. [1]
December 8 ◦Three fuel tanks explode when jetliner is struck by lightning, crashing near Elkton Maryland; only case of lightning-caused crash, 81 die. [1]

1964
September 12 ◦Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, causing $17.5 million damage. [1]
December 23 ◦India and Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed. [1]

1965
April 11 ◦40 tornadoes strike US midwest killing 272 and injuring 5,000. [1]
May 11 ◦First of two cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 in India. [1]
June 2 ◦Second of two cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges River, India). [1]
September 12 ◦Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida and Louisiana; kills 75. [1]
December 15 ◦Third cyclone of year kills another 10,000 at mouth of Ganges River, Bangladesh. [1]

1966
January 11 ◦550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain. [1]
January 29 ◦Snow storm in north-east US kills 165. [1]
March 3 ◦Tornado hits Jackson, Mississippi; 3 minutes after first sighting, 57 die. [1]
March 5 ◦75-MPH air currents cause BOAC 707 crash above Mount Fuji, 124 die. [1]
November 4 ◦Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works. [1]

1967
February 1 ◦Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million and 60 lives. [1]
September 20 ◦Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38. [1]

1968
January 31 ◦Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32 inches), at Agata, USSR. [1]
May 15 ◦A tornado strikes Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA, at 10 PM, killing 36. [1]

1969
April 14 ◦Tornado strikes Dacca, East Pakistan, killing 540. [1]
April 23 ◦Over 1000 square miles flooded in Shantung Province, China. [1]
August 22 ◦Hurricane Camille strikes U.S. Gulf Coast; kills 255. [1]
December 8 ◦Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, Greece; 93 killed. [1]

1970
February 11 ◦26.37 cm (10.38 inches) of rainfall, Mount Washington, New Hampshire (state 24-hour record). [1]
August 3 ◦Hurricane "Celia" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history. [1]
September 5 ◦Estimated 15 cm (6 inches) of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record). [1]
November 13 ◦Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong, Bangladesh. [1]

1971
January 23 ◦Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska, (north of Fairbanks) reaches a US record low temperature of -80 degrees F. [1] [32.23]
February 21 ◦Series of tornadoes cuts through Mississippi and Louisiana killing 117. [1]
April 26 ◦Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15 inches in 24 hours. [1]

1972
June 9 ◦14 inches of rain in six hours bursts Rapid City, South Dakota dam, drowns 200. [1]
June 23 ◦Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history. [1]
July 22 ◦27.53 cm (10.84 inches) of rainfall, Fort Ripley, Minnesota (state 24-hour record). [1]

1973
July 7 ◦78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India). [1]
July 23 ◦Ozark Air Lines' plane knocked out of the air by lightning over Saint Louis - 36 die. [1]

1974
January 5 ◦In Vanda Station, Scott Coast, an Antarctican record hot temperature of 59 degrees F is recorded. [54]
April 3 ◦In the USA, 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states in the east, south and midwest killed approximately 315. [1]
September 18 ◦Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die. [1]
December 25 ◦Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin, Australia. [1]

1975
May 6 ◦Early warnings provided by REACT (ham radio operators) means only three people die in tornado that strikes Omaha, Nebraska. [1]
May 13 ◦Hail stones as large as tennis balls hit Wernerville, Tennessee. [1]
June 28 ◦Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Illinois). [1]
June 29 ◦20.57 cm (8.10 inches) of rainfall, Litchville, North Dakota (state 24-hour record). [1]
July 7 ◦Juneau, Alaska, reaches a record high temperature: 90 degrees F. [32.22]
July 13 ◦8.5 inches (21.6 cm) of rainfall in Dover, Delaware (US state record). [1]
September 30 ◦Five drown in flash flood of sewer and water tunnel (Niagara Falls, New York). [1]
November 10 ◦Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald and crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior. [1]

1977
January 19 ◦Rare snow flurries in southeast Florida, USA. [290.15]
February 1 ◦Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives. [1]
July 20 ◦Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 80 and causing US$350 million damage. [1]

1978
January 25 ◦(to January 27) The Great Blizzard of 1978 strikes the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes, killing 70. [841]
February 5 ◦(to February 7) The Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 hits the New England region and the New York metropolitan area, killing about 100 and causing over US$520 million in damage. [841]

1979
January 12 ◦Record blizzard strikes American midwest killing over 100. [1]
February 13 ◦Intense windstorm strikes western Washington State and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge. [1] [840]
February 18 ◦-52 degrees F (-47 degrees C), Old Forge, New York (state record). [1]
◦The African Sahara Desert experiences snow for 30 minutes. [1] [840]
April 10 ◦A tornado hits Wichita Falls, Texas, killing 42 people (the most notable of 26 tornadoes that day). [840]
May 17 ◦-12 degrees F (-11 degrees C), on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record). [1] [54]
July 26 ◦Estimated 109 cm (43 inches) of rain falls in Alvin, Texas (national record). [1]
August 14 ◦A freak storm during the Fastnet Race results in the death of 15 sailors. [840]
September 3 ◦Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm, kills over 1,000. [1]
September 12 ◦Hurricane Frederic makes landfall at 10:00 p.m. on Alabama's Gulf Coast. [840]
October 3 ◦A EF4 Tornado hits Windsor Locks, Connecticut, USA causing extensive damage to the town. [840]
October 16 ◦A tsunami in Nice, France kills 23 people. [840]
October 19 ◦13 US Marines die in a fire at Camp Fuji, Japan as a result of Typhoon Tip. [840]



Chronology of Extreme Weather (1951-1979)




Board is littered with phonies and/or the hopelessly naïve bubble dwellers. In most cases, its likely the latter.

Manmade Global warming did that

uh huh

 

[Meister]

By the way, skookerasbil, your attempt to disrupt this thread with your trolling spam has been reported. Have a good day.

The science isn't settled and the Earth's climate has been changing ever since we've had an atmosphere.
Obama goes to Fresno, Ca. that is in the midst of a drought and "preach" Global Warming. Fact is the scientists have stated that there have been several droughts through the centuries that lasts for decades.....long before man could have had any influence in the area.

 

[Mr. H.]

Without a doubt. But not on a level requiring the destruction of entire industries and millions of jobs.

First, while some might claim they want to see it, the fossil fuel industry (and why do you never name it?) is not going to disappear overnight. It is very, very likely that it will never disappear at all. What is wanted is to replace it. We would like governments and industries to work hard to develop new technologies and improve existing ones so that human civilization can move away from fossil fuels and begin to rely on renewable, non-polluting, zero-carbon energy sources: wind, solar, OTEC, geothermal, fission, fusion and hydrogen.

Replacing one energy source with another, will not - in the long run - cost us ANY jobs. We will simply switch those jobs from one industry to another. I'm sure the development of the automobile costs millions of jobs worldwide in the breeding, care, training and support of horses. The development of ships made of metal eliminated an enormous class of shipwrights and other craftsmen who'd spent millenia honing their skills. The spread of computers has eliminated thousands of job categories of every description. Yet, in the long run, were our labor situation, our employment levels or our average family income harmed? Should that have stopped ANY of those developments? Were the costs too high?

And now we have a development that we actually NEED. One that will not only allow us to generate energy and power our machines more efficiently and enormously more cleanly, it will allow us to save ourselves from our ignorance and our folly.

You will have to pardon me if I choose the health of the world over the necessity that some coal miner's son take up his family's historical profession or that will choose that we should drill holes into every parcel of land and sea on our planet in search of the last dregs of the very poisons that are destroying us.

Switching to alternative energy sources is not an attack on an industry or the people it employs. It is simply another in an endless string of changes intended to make all our lives better.

I wanted to bump this as you made a concerted effort at relaying your thoughts, and I didn't intend to summarily dismiss them.

Of course I mean the fossil fuel industries. I don't see any others under such relentless attack by the Administration, the Left, the Environmental community, and the public at large.

Why "replace it"? It's vogue, for one reason. An easy target, a scapegoat, and it affords a convenient podium to the parties mentioned above.

Renewables are far from non-polluting OR zero carbon. That's an absurd notion.

Crude oil was ten cents per barrel in the early days. Ten cents. Is it any wonder that it supplanted horses and fired the furnaces of industry? But now we have expensive, inefficient, dangerous "renewable" opportunities that are not forwarded by economics, but political agenda.

And over the years we have used less hydrocarbons more efficiently and cleaner than ever all the while boosting our nation's GDP.

So, no. I don't buy into "renewables" as the savior of mankind or the earth but I do see them as mere tools for promulgating an agenda and further spreading petrophobia among the masses.

 

[orogenicman]

By the way, skookerasbil, your attempt to disrupt this thread with your trolling spam has been reported. Have a good day.

The science isn't settled and the Earth's climate has been changing ever since we've had an atmosphere.
Obama goes to Fresno, Ca. that is in the midst of a drought and "preach" Global Warming. Fact is the scientists have stated that there have been several droughts through the centuries that lasts for decades.....long before man could have had any influence in the area.

I am not interested in your political views. I am interested in scientific appraisals of the David Attenborough videos I've posted here. Did you even watch them?

 

[Meister]

By the way, skookerasbil, your attempt to disrupt this thread with your trolling spam has been reported. Have a good day.

The science isn't settled and the Earth's climate has been changing ever since we've had an atmosphere.
Obama goes to Fresno, Ca. that is in the midst of a drought and "preach" Global Warming. Fact is the scientists have stated that there have been several droughts through the centuries that lasts for decades.....long before man could have had any influence in the area.

I am not interested in your political views. I am interested in scientific appraisals of the David Attenborough videos I've posted here. Did you even watch them?

Yeah, I did. But AGW IS political....no getting around that. Too many scientists do say the science is't settled. There are the scientists that are jumping off the warmist band wagon.

 

[orogenicman]

The science isn't settled and the Earth's climate has been changing ever since we've had an atmosphere.
Obama goes to Fresno, Ca. that is in the midst of a drought and "preach" Global Warming. Fact is the scientists have stated that there have been several droughts through the centuries that lasts for decades.....long before man could have had any influence in the area.

I am not interested in your political views. I am interested in scientific appraisals of the David Attenborough videos I've posted here. Did you even watch them?

Yeah, I did. But AGW IS political....no getting around that. Too many scientists do say the science is't settled. There are the scientists that are jumping off the warmist band wagon.

The science is manifestly not political. Any policies related to it have become political by pundants, most of whom don't actually understand the science. Now, to you care to discuss the videos, or are you going to troll?

 

[Abraham3]

I wanted to bump this as you made a concerted effort at relaying your thoughts, and I didn't intend to summarily dismiss them.

Much obliged.

Of course I mean the fossil fuel industries. I don't see any others under such relentless attack by the Administration, the Left, the Environmental community, and the public at large.

Yes

Why "replace it"? It's vogue, for one reason. An easy target, a scapegoat, and it affords a convenient podium to the parties mentioned above.

Fossil fuel use needs to be replaced because it has been the primary cause of global warming. They are not a scapegoat because they actually are the cause of global warming. Now no one inside or out of the industry knew it would have this effect till the last few decades and the industry has certainly only answered a persistent demand from the public.

They are not an easy target. They are extremely well entrenched and extremely well funded.

They were not selected for convenience's sake. They were selected because we have to stop using fossil fuel as soon as possible.

Renewables are far from non-polluting OR zero carbon. That's an absurd notion.

I listed wind, solar, OTEC, geothermal, fission, fusion and hydrogen. Certainly some hydrocarbons will be released in the manufacture and assembly of such systems. But, in operation, they produce NO carbon waste while fossil fuel systems do little else.

Crude oil was ten cents per barrel in the early days. Ten cents. Is it any wonder that it supplanted horses and fired the furnaces of industry? But now we have expensive, inefficient, dangerous "renewable" opportunities that are not forwarded by economics, but political agenda.

If you take into your accounting the actual cost of using fossil fuels (ie, include dealing with the pollution and AGW they cause), you will find that there most certainly IS an economic impetus to moving to alternative energy technologies. The price of oil is hovering at a thousand times the rate you noted. The fuel for all of the non-nuclear systems I listed is free. That's a hard deal to beat.

And over the years we have used less hydrocarbons more efficiently and cleaner than ever all the while boosting our nation's GDP.

Yes we have, and I expect the process of improvement to continue as far as possible and for governments to create pressures to push individuals, businesses and corporations to make use of such technologies to reduce our fuel consumption and our GHG emissions. But even with dramatic improvements along these lines, our consumption - the world's consumption - is unendurable. Human GHG emissions need to be RADICALLY reduced else we will bring a climatic catastrophe whose cost will absolutely dwarf what it would have cost us to deal with the issue when we could have.

So, no. I don't buy into "renewables" as the savior of mankind or the earth but I do see them as mere tools for promulgating an agenda and further spreading petrophobia among the masses.

What part(s) of AGW do you reject?

 

[Meister]

I am not interested in your political views. I am interested in scientific appraisals of the David Attenborough videos I've posted here. Did you even watch them?

Yeah, I did. But AGW IS political....no getting around that. Too many scientists do say the science is't settled. There are the scientists that are jumping off the warmist band wagon.

The science is manifestly not political. Any policies related to it have become political by pundants, most of whom don't actually understand the science. Now, to you care to discuss the videos, or are you going to troll?

Just because you don't like reality doesn't make it trolling. And, yes it is political. When there is the redistribution of wealth on the global scale, it becomes political....no matter what your talking points are.

 

[skookerasbil]

By the way, skookerasbil, your attempt to disrupt this thread with your trolling spam has been reported. Have a good day.

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