The Pending Climate Apocalypse

The Manhattan Contrarian blog offers this excerpt from the Los Angeles Times. See if it does not sound familiar:

The world groaned with weather complaints this summer. 

America had droughts and extraordinary heat waves. England had the coldest, wettest summer weather within living memory. Southeast Central Europe experienced late spring and a June so hot schools had to be closed prematurely.

Germany’s summer was remarkably short and marked by frequent sunless days. Italy alternately shivered and perspired. France had to go back to 1850 to find precedent for the chilly wetness that afflicted her.

Now the fun part. These paragraphs come to us from a story that the paper published on September 18, 1931.

As the Bible teaches us, there is no new thing under the sun.

Anyway, the blog adds some data about the pending climate non-calamity:

• Heat Waves – have been decreasing since the 1930s in the U.S. and globally.

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• Hurricanes – this decade just ended was the second quietest for landfalling. hurricanes and landfalling major hurricanes in the U.S since the 1850s.

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• Tornadoes – the number of strong tornadoes has declined over the last half century. More active months occur when unseasonable cold spring patterns are present.

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• Droughts and Floods – there has been no statistically significant trend.

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• Wildfires – decreasing since the very active 1800s. The increase in damage in recent years is due to population growth in vulnerable areas and poor forest management. 

How do you spell climate change hysteria?