{"id":21589,"date":"2014-09-30T16:17:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T20:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21589"},"modified":"2014-09-30T16:17:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T20:17:53","slug":"global-warming-back-in-1821","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21589\/global-warming-back-in-1821\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Warming&#8230;  Back in 1821?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like clockwork, climate alarmists attributed Hurricane Sandy in 2012 to anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming.\u00a0 In one typically <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2012-11-01\/its-global-warming-stupid\" target=\"_blank\">irrational commentary<\/a>, Paul Barrett equated global warming to steroids in its effect on the storm.<\/p>\n<p>With that hyperbole and hysteria in mind, a Discovery Channel item this week provided appropriate humor.\u00a0 Entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/earth\/weather-extreme-events\/thought-sandy-was-bad-revisit-this-1821-hurricane-140929.htm?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=dnewsnewsletter#mkcpgn=emnws1\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Thought Sandy Was Bad?\u00a0 Revisit This 1821 Hurricane,&#8221; <\/a>its historical piece offers beneficial perspective:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Remember all the hype about Hurricane Sandy being a &#8216;superstorm,&#8217; a once-in-500-years convergence of meteorological nastiness?\u00a0 According to a newly-published study by a Swiss insurance firm, Swiss Re, things could have been a lot worse.\u00a0 Though the combination of factors that created Sandy was indeed unusual, Sandy wasn&#8217;t the most powerful storm that&#8217;s ever hit the U.S. East Coast.\u00a0 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.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Too bad the alarmists weren&#8217;t around in 1821 to attribute causation to steam engine technology.\u00a0 But perhaps contemporary alarmists can instruct us on how this only substantiates their ongoing charade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like clockwork, climate alarmists attributed Hurricane Sandy in 2012 to anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Entitled &#8220;Thought Sandy Was Bad?\u00a0 Revisit This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[205,4592],"class_list":["post-21589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-global-warming","tag-hurricane-sandy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21591,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21589\/revisions\/21591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}