Flashback 1956: Climate Change Wreaks Havoc Across The World – Disasters Flourish
A list of 1956 severe disasters before 350ppm CO2 levels – must be early climate change, no?
1956: 125 Die In NYC Region Blizzard – 13.5 Inches Of Snow Quickly Dumped On Area
1956: “Threat of Famine Hovering Over Ice-Shrouded Europe”
1956: 400,000 Square Miles of Australia Threatened By Floods
1956: “It Hit Like A Bomb” – Freak Tropical Storm Floods & Blacks-Out Large Areas
1956: “Moisture conditions are the worst in recorded history”
1956: “Drought Spectre Creeps Across Great Plains, Granary of U.S.
1956: Texas/Oklahoma Blizzard Leaves Up To 43″ of Snow
1956: Likely 58 Japanese Dead From Blizzard
1956: Earthquakes Rock Afghanistan – 20,000 Feared Dead
1956: Torrential Rains Swamp Tasmania – “Worst Flood In Years”
1956: “Flood Of Snakes” Threaten Farmers
1956: “Ike Will See Farm-Ranch Drought Scars No President Has Ever Witnessed”
1956: Crippling Blizzard Follows Tornadoes In Dakotas – “One Of The Worst Storms On Record”
1956: Nova Scotia Struck By 40MPH Gales, 20″ Of Snow, 12ft Drifts
1956: 23-Day Cold Wave Death Toll In Europe Stands At 777
1956: Turkey’s “Worst Winter” Brings Torrential Rains & Big Snow Melts
1956: Large Cracks In Taj Majal’s Main Structure Appear – Heavy Floods To Blame
1956: Flood Mud Carpets Toulon, France Region – Rare Heavy Storm To Blame
1956: Black Dust Storm & Tornadoes In U.S. Kill 16
1956: “White House Plans New Drought Aid”
1956: “Ike Declares California Fire Major Disaster” – Brush Fires Spread
1956: Floods & Avalanches Affect Areas of Germany and Austria
1956: Cyclone Strikes Queensland, Australia
1956: Southern Ohio Fights Forest Fires From High Wind & Low Humidity Conditions
1956: Los Angeles First Hit With Record Storm Flood Then Sizzled By Fire
1956: 2,000 Chinese Die In Typhoon
1956: Canadian Farmers Lose Crops To Golf-Ball Sized Hailstorm
1956: Famous Historian Predicts Devastating World Famine To Come
1956: Tidal Wave 24-Feet High Roars Into Calcutta
1956: Cloudburst Storm Triggers Dangerous Floods In Brazil
1956: Idaho’s Forest Fires Increase By 20 As New Storms Strike
1956: South Pole Iceberg Sighted That Is 3X The Size of Manhattan Island
1956: Hurricane Flossy Floods New Orlean’s Streets
1956: Tornadoes & Floods Plague Central U.S.
1956: 600 Mile Wide Typhoon With 140MPH Winds Rips Into Okinawa
1956: Vast Forest Fires Rage In Alaska
1956: 30% of U.S. Has Extreme Drought Conditions
1956: Greek Islands Struck By Earthquake, Volcano & Tidal Wave
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6 in 10 people worldwide lack access to flush toilets or other adequate sanitation
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Heritage Sites Of ‘National Significance’ Under Threat From Wind Farms
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Claim: Biofuels wiping out grasslands: ‘America’s prairies are shrinking. Spurred on by rush for biofuels, farmers are digging up grasslands in N. Plains to plant crops atquickest pace since 1930s’
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Great News: Cheers! 2012 U.S. Coal Exports Reach Record High: ‘U.S. exported 114 million metric tons of coal — 12% more than previous high set in 1981’
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Australia’s coal industry ‘making billions’ from carbon tax
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US National Academy of Sciences to receive $500 million in oil money: ‘NAS to receive $500 million from Gulf oil spill settlement’
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Joel Sternfeld, on attending a UN climate conf. & hearing CO2 is dangerous: ‘I live about 5 blocks from former World Trade Centre & I was at my window as first plane struck – but this was worse’
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Analysis: ‘Which Year Was Most Extreme?’ in U.S. ‘2012 came out first & 2nd most extreme on the top 2 categories, respectively’
‘The winter in 1936 was the 2nd coldest on record. Only the winter of 1979 was colder.
The summer of 1936 was the hottest on record.
Annually, 2012 was warmest, whereas 1936 was ranked 72.
So, a very hot summer and very cold winter in 1936 cancelled each other out, to something about average! It is no surprise then that the “US Climate Extremes Index” for maximum temperature shows 1936 as one of the least extreme on record, while 2012 is top.
So, which year really was the more extreme?
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