Like clockwork, climate alarmists attributed Hurricane Sandy in 2012 to anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming. In one typically irrational commentary, Paul Barrett equated global warming to steroids in its effect on the storm.
With that hyperbole and hysteria in mind, a Discovery Channel item this week provided appropriate humor. Entitled “Thought Sandy Was Bad? Revisit This 1821 Hurricane,” its historical piece offers beneficial perspective:
Remember all the hype about Hurricane Sandy being a ‘superstorm,’ a once-in-500-years convergence of meteorological nastiness? According to a newly-published study by a Swiss insurance firm, Swiss Re, things could have been a lot worse. Though the combination of factors that created Sandy was indeed unusual, Sandy wasn’t the most powerful storm that’s ever hit the U.S. East Coast. That distinction probably belongs to the massive 1821 Norfolk and Long Island hurricane, which moved along the Mid-Atlantic before striking the New York/New Jersey coastline with wind speeds of 156 miles per hour.”
Too bad the alarmists weren’t around in 1821 to attribute causation to steam engine technology. But perhaps contemporary alarmists can instruct us on how this only substantiates their ongoing charade.
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