Even the records that are 140 years old bear little resemblance to the accuracy of electronic devices today. You can easily see the meniscus in mercury bulb thermometers.
I'm barely in my 60's and I think back to when I was a teen and young adult. The only way I would hear about a natural disaster would be if my local newspaper or TV news covered it, and I just happened to take note that day. I mean, when I got the Sunday papers the first thing I did was pull out the sports page and comics and head to the bathroom. Box scores took a while to read so I didn't often get to the latest typhoon news from the Philippines. I guess my point is that every incident today is world-wide news whereas a hundred years ago nobody in the world knew about it other than the places affected.
I'm also a window flyer on airplanes. I'm fascinated by watching the landscape below. What I've noticed flying to the west coast is that apparently there looks to be a lot of water in the past that cut canyons out, probably way before man existed. Anyone who can look at that and then try to definitively quantify how much damage humans have done just doesn't get the power of the planet.
That's another angle of this... let's call it geocentrism, perhaps. Every big weather event is instant global news, and of course every one is also opportunity for warmists to thump their doomsday drum. Fear sells, and it always has... until it wears people out, in Chicken Little fashion.
The irony is that, if they weren't so insistent on *their* remedies, i.e. Wind and Solar and Change Your Life For The Worse, and took a reasoned 'let's look at everything, nuclear included, let's make good incremental changes, and let's not run before we can walk' approach, they'd probably be further along in global carbon reductions. As it is now, China and the rest of the BRICS are laughing at the West's energy suicide.
“Ever,” is, indeed, a long time. Wonderful piece.
Even the records that are 140 years old bear little resemblance to the accuracy of electronic devices today. You can easily see the meniscus in mercury bulb thermometers.
I'm barely in my 60's and I think back to when I was a teen and young adult. The only way I would hear about a natural disaster would be if my local newspaper or TV news covered it, and I just happened to take note that day. I mean, when I got the Sunday papers the first thing I did was pull out the sports page and comics and head to the bathroom. Box scores took a while to read so I didn't often get to the latest typhoon news from the Philippines. I guess my point is that every incident today is world-wide news whereas a hundred years ago nobody in the world knew about it other than the places affected.
I'm also a window flyer on airplanes. I'm fascinated by watching the landscape below. What I've noticed flying to the west coast is that apparently there looks to be a lot of water in the past that cut canyons out, probably way before man existed. Anyone who can look at that and then try to definitively quantify how much damage humans have done just doesn't get the power of the planet.
That's another angle of this... let's call it geocentrism, perhaps. Every big weather event is instant global news, and of course every one is also opportunity for warmists to thump their doomsday drum. Fear sells, and it always has... until it wears people out, in Chicken Little fashion.
The irony is that, if they weren't so insistent on *their* remedies, i.e. Wind and Solar and Change Your Life For The Worse, and took a reasoned 'let's look at everything, nuclear included, let's make good incremental changes, and let's not run before we can walk' approach, they'd probably be further along in global carbon reductions. As it is now, China and the rest of the BRICS are laughing at the West's energy suicide.