History of weather extremes reveals little has changed, new report shows
By Paul Homewood
London, 22 March – A new report published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation challenges the popular but mistaken belief that weather extremes – such as flooding, droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires – are more common and more intense today because of climate change.
Drawing on newspaper archives and long-term observational data, the report, written by Dr Ralph Alexander, documents multiple examples of past extremes that matched or exceeded anything experienced in the present-day world.
Dr Ralph Alexander said:
“That so many people are unaware of past extremes shows that collective memories of extreme weather are short-lived.”
“The perception that extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and severity is primarily a consequence of new information technology – the Internet and smart phones – which have revolutionised communication and made us much more aware of such disasters in all corners of the world than we were 50 or 100 years ago.”
Ralph Alexander: Weather extremes in historical context (pdf)
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Naaaaa, that’s right. Just experienced (-ing) the Lion in March this now. Stupid Calving heifer running around the open field with us after her this morning like we had nothing better to do ( for her own good). Last week we were in Tee shirt, today its lack of winter clothing with Schnutz hanging cheek to cheek! Imagine that! Large Fertiliser bags ( Totes which are very much alive) flying about off the Forks. Maybe trying to tell us that a lot of rain on the way and seed be better left in the bag for now. Nothing new - but we have a job to do. THIS Generation knows how it’s( the climate) been in the past, so anyone talking otherwise amply demonstrates that it (climate change) is very much just a Generational thing. Aye people with lost or no cause and NEED to do something. How about a proper job?
It should be obvious that a lot more people and a lot more structures means a lot more chances for unfavourable weather to cause problems, and for those problems to be more damaging than before.
Deaths from extreme weather events have plummeted over the decades, but would have fallen even further if building was not carried out on flood plains or near badly managed forests.
Which brings up a point: People choose to live where they live. Some people choose to live in places where weather could create big trouble for them, even existential. So when the Climate Mania cult cries about deaths from weather disasters, they ignore that all chose to live there, most knowing the risk, but taking a chance.
Consider Charleston, SC, Savannah, GA, Jacksonville, FL, and Miami, FL. Each is in a position where a Category 5 hurricane could hit them. Each could have catastrophic destruction. Today, early warning and mass evacuation limit loss of life, but early warning is a fairly recent development. For 300 years, hurricanes were a surprise. Yet people chose to live there. Many people. It was one of the largest cities in North America during Colonial times.
Build a beach front house. Storm comes up, and washes it away. Is it the weather’s fault?
The articles below are from 2010/11, same subject, similar material. The UN and their acolytes constantly re-cycle and repeat the doom scenarios and the media hacks simply regurgitate what they are fed without even the most basic research.
“Extreme Weather, Extreme Claims”: https://web.archive.org/web/20211026142155/http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/extreme_weather_extreme_claims.pdf
“Playing Climate Games – The Latest Attempt to Blame Carbon Dioxide for Extreme Weather” https://web.archive.org/web/20161211234647/http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/playing_climate_games.pdf
“in all corners of the world”
So it’s a cube & not a globe ???
The climate models think it’s a flat earth.
The UN – IPCC think it’s a flat earth; Look at the UN flag …
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.Zyo_itH2e7gDpCnygfenXQHaE7%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=7fe7ea1eba10d2b173186bd6132bbe6433441e8abd7a34de8dc9c7b4e7748734&ipo=images
It is from Is from Isaiah 11:12: “Gather the dispersed people of Judah from the four corners of the Earth.” The Mesopotamian world-view of what was important in geography was really limited, and it seems that their maps were pretty local and pretty square too.
“The perception that extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and severity is primarily a consequence of new information technology”
Disagree. It is primarily a consequence of a cabal of globalists pushing an agenda of crisis to facilitate a power grab over people’s activities and every aspect of the natural world, as well as for the conscience-free to enrich themselves on the back of snake oil schemes. A partnership made in Hell.
Paul – This is the last email I have received from you. On Friday 22nd I received a single block of 63 emails, mostly from Climate Change Dispatch of which only 4 were genuine, and 3 from yourself. The rest of the CCD ones were obviously made-up Spam and I deleted them as Spam. But since then I’ve had nothing from CCD or you or Friends Of Science. So have hackers managed to delete my email address and others from your system? Please let me know. Yours, Tony Budd