{"id":2027,"date":"2009-11-06T09:09:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T16:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2009-11-06T09:09:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T16:09:18","slug":"predictions-of-climate-change-induced-natural-disasters-falling-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/predictions-of-climate-change-induced-natural-disasters-falling-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"Predictions of climate change induced natural disasters falling flat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former vice president Al Gore famously used an image of Hurricane Katrina to illustrate his argument that natural disasters will increase in intensity and frequency. Empirical data howeverhas shown that is not the case. (An Inconvenient Truth)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Manmade climate change is said to present humankind with some of its greatest challenges in the planet\u2019s history, not the least of which is an alarming increase in frequency and intensity of natural disasters. Massive flooding, super-powered hurricanes, endless tornado seasons and more have all been said to be the direst of consequences of global warming.<\/p>\n

In his movie \u201cAn Inconvenient Truth\u201d, Al Gore famously proclaimed that, \u201cTemperature changes are taking place all over the world and that is causing stronger storms.\u201d Standing with Hurricane Katrina as a backdrop, the former vice president issued a cautionary tale of disaster in the making, all due to our irresponsible handling of the atmosphere. As recently as February Mr. Gore was giving a presentation showing flooding, drought and wildfires<\/a> saying, \u201cThis is creating weather-related disasters that are completely unprecedented.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama, in a town hall meeting in April echoed the Nobel laureate\u2019s comments<\/a> saying, \u201cYou’re now looking at huge, cataclysmic hurricanes, complete changes in weather patterns.\u201d He followed that in September when in a speech before the United Nations he claimed<\/a>, \u201cMore powerful storms and floods threaten every continent.\u201d<\/p>\n

But what if you predicted global natural disaster catastrophes and they didn\u2019t happen? Does that invalidate your entire message? This is the conundrum faced by climate change alarmists as many of their predictions begin to fall flat.<\/p>\n

\"There's<\/a>Learn more about the evidence and find out why even some alarmists say these claims of ‘doom and gloom’ are hurting their case on Examiner.com.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manmade climate change is said to present humankind with some of its greatest challenges in the planet\u2019s history, not the least of which is an alarming increase in frequency and intensity of natural disasters. Massive flooding, super-powered hurricanes, endless tornado seasons and more have all been said to be the direst of consequences of global … Continue reading Predictions of climate change induced natural disasters falling flat<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[138,736,294,131,303,735,247,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2029,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/2029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}