The New American
by Ed Hiserodt and Rebecca Terrell
8/29/2017
From the print edition of The New American
Excerpt:
Since President Donald Trump announced his intent to withdraw the United States from the globalist-spawned Paris agreement, climate alarmists have gone into apoplectic apocalyptic tailspin. After the president’s June 1 announcement, actor/activist Leonardo DiCaprio lamented that “today, our planet suffered.” Comedienne Bette Midler labeled Trump a “destructive megalomaniac.” Filmmaker Michael Moore tweeted that “Trump just committed a crime against humanity,” while billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer spat, “The Trump Administration has just committed assault and battery on the future of the American people. There can be no excuse for this willful crime.”
Some are even calling for his impeachment over his stated intent to keep his campaign promise to the American people. Writing for the Huffington Post, Marjorie Cohn accused the president of committing a “High Crime.” This professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law said Trump’s move threatens “international peace and security” and the “very foundations of civilization.”
If that sounds slightly to the Chicken Little extreme, keep in mind that these radicals blame man-made climate change for increases in violent storms, farmland destruction, food shortages, floods, drought, heat waves, blizzards, insect-borne disease, and species extinction. For example, in 2005 the journal Science argued that “global data indicate a 30-year trend toward more frequent and intense hurricanes.” Happily, reality proved otherwise. No Category 4 or 5 hurricanes have affected the United States since 2005. Katrina was a Category 3 storm when she slammed into poorly protected Louisiana that year. (According to NASA, hurricanes are classified by wind speed, with Category 3 winds “similar, or close, to the serving speed of professional tennis players.”) New Orleans was set up for disaster, not from man-made climate change, but thanks to the federal government’s absurd insistence on developing residential areas in low-lying swamp land, while for decades neglecting necessary, Congress-sanctioned levee improvement.
The 2012 media-classified “Superstorm” Sandy was also Category 3 at its peak when it hit Cuba, but by the time it made U.S. landfall, NOAA’s National Hurricane Center had downgraded it to a post-tropical cyclone. As destructive as Sandy was, it was her storm surges combined with high tides that caused flooding across the Northeast. Though alarmists attribute her damage to man-made sea level rise, Sandy behaved as similar storms always have and always will: Offshore winds pushed water ashore. A few fractions of an inch in sea level rise pales in comparison to a 15-20 foot storm surge.
Alarmists are also fond of citing increases in extreme tornadoes. Wrong again! There has been a marked downward trend in “strong to violent tornadoes” since the 1950s, according NOAA. Tornado intensity is classified by the Fujita Scale, based on the measure of damage to buildings and vegetation. Severe storms are classed as F3 or greater, with wind speeds at least 158 miles per hour, while F5 twisters can top 300 mph. The national average number of F3+ tornadoes from 1954 to 1983 was 56.3, while the same average from 1984 to 2014 was 36.9. Moreover, NOAA’s list of “Ten Deadliest Documented Tornado Events” includes only one storm in the past 60 years: 2011 in Joplin, Missouri, which ranks seventh. The other nine occurred between 1840 and 1953. Additionally, the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center reports that 17 Americans died in tornadoes last year. That’s the smallest number of fatalities in 30 years; the second fewest in more than 60 years.
And so it goes. In almost every case of alarmist hand-wringing, plain truth flies in the face of their panic-laced predictions. NOAA records show the upward trend in rainfall since 1895 has significantly slackened since 1976. So much for flooding. Also, droughts have become shorter, less frequent, and smaller in area. In July, drought in the United States fell to a record low, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, a collaborative project of NOAA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the National Drought Mitigation Center.
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