Yesterday’s deluge in New York City was a substantial and frightening event. In Park Slope, Brooklyn, where I lived for 40 years before selling up and moving out (thank goodness!), the flooding at the bottom of the moraine was up to the windows of stranded cars.
As with every notable weather event these days, from floods to droughts, heatwaves to cold-snaps, and anything in between, this one brought out a Greek chorus on social and other media to pin the blame on “climate change”.
Not so fast, says earth-science professor and “political orphan” Dr. Matthew Wielicki, who maintains a Substack page called Irrational Fear. In a post published today, he reminds us that the Great Storm of 1882 dropped eight inches of rain on Gotham in a single day, while atmospheric CO2 was at a paltry 290 parts per million. He also presents this chart to show there there doesn’t seem to be any general trend with these deluges:
Read the whole thing here.
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Weather. It’s always ‘our’ fault when it happens, right?
Anyway, in 2022 the ‘Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai’ volcanic undersea eruption occurred which not many in the MSM seemed to have notice? From the NASA website that ran an article about the eruption:
Hmmmm? Maybe it’s NOT all ‘our’ fault after all!
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https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/all-climate-models-continue-to-be-wrong-overstating-warming-to-significant-degrees/
https://imgur.com/8t606JZ
Source : John Batchelor – CBS Eye On The World