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Oops, the worst one of all in recent history was 1888.
Bad hurricanes? Oops, Hazel in the fifties.
Tornadoes?
Tri-state tornado in the twenties. Super outbreak in the seventies.
Heat waves and drought? The Dust Bowl in the thirties. More bad drought in the fifties.
These AGW morons play on ignorance as they call skeptics uninformed dolts.
Let us also not forget: six foot deep or more snows were the norm when the northeast portion of this country was colonized.
That’s why older buildings in the northeast from around that time have steep rooflines.
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Judging by the geological evidence, they seem to be off by thousands of years.
No one knows what the "perfect temperature" of the earth should be at any point on the earth and at any point in time.
There's nothing scientific about climate change except the fact that it is constantly changing....and that's pure hindsight.
I think that was more than 20 years ago.
In the 1970s, my science teacher said we were heading into a mini ice age. Which is it, a mini ice age or globull warming? I haven’t seen either.
Twenty years or even 100 years is nothing; the earth has been here for BILLIONS of years.
what extreme weather are they referring too?
Stealing, and horribly paraphrasing, from Mark Steyn:
1. Exactly what percentage of climate change is caused by man. How many degrees?
2. What was the weather like when the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth rock?
The biggest blizzard/snowfall in my area (western Wisconsin) occurred in 1959. The worst flood occurred in 1965.
Didn’t the Internet start around that time? It certainly has caused the political climate to change here and abroad and the elites are scared.
I recall some very big snowstorms in the 1940s and 1950s, when I was growing up. I'm not saying all snowstorms were that bad back then, but there were a few that stand out in my memory. Snowdrifts up to the edge of our barn roof. My rural school canceled because the buses couldn't even get out of the school bus garage, let alone get through the roads. Later, knee-deep snow on the soccer fields at my university.
Not just snowstorms, but tornadoes in northeast Ohio, with the National Guard and the Naval Reserve out guarding the damaged buildings, and the volunteer fire department providing coffee and sandwiches to the displaced people.
We've had some bad weather before this.
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Isn’t a meteorologist kinda like a chiropractor? You know, an Alan Harper type?
Regarding the "warmest year on record" claims, here is a link describing the nature of the instruments gathering the data. These revelations will only be surprising to a weather-reader who is too frightened to disagree with popular hysteria. But considering "records" go back only a hundred, plus years - and accurate ones only about twenty, to be impressed by new claims about trends within the last 20 years regarding an ever evolving environment that dates back several billion years is the height of intellect entertained by shiny trinkets rather than meaningful information.