If this sounds like the same deliberately-panic-inducing garbage as the WuHan Flu charade you're right; and it's not coincidental
/Paul Homewood: The climate scaremongers: Hurricanes aren’t getting more frequent . . .
THE official end of the Atlantic hurricane season last Thursday, November 30, brought claims that it was the ‘fourth busiest on record’, with lurid accounts of terrible storms. For instance, USA Today‘s headline read ‘Atlantic hurricane season 2023 was filled with monster storms’.
None of this is true.
There were seven hurricanes in all, three of which were Category 3 and over (on a scale of 1-5). Both numbers were spot on the 30-year average. Hurricane frequency this year ranks only 33rd highest since 1851, and there have been 55 other years with the same number or greater.
In other words, it has been a perfectly normal year.
The claim of ‘fourth busiest’ stems from the number of ‘named storms’. As well as hurricanes, these include the much weaker tropical storms, which can have average wind speeds of as little as 39mph, much less powerful than many of the winter storms which head our way across the Atlantic. When we look at trends in these tropical storms, we see that they have doubled in number since the 1990s:
But this does not mean that more storms are forming. In a remarkable lapse in its editorial standards (!), the BBC explained all this a couple of years ago:
‘Over the past 10 to 15 years, though, named storms have formed prior to the official start about 50 per cent of the time. And the way they are defined and observed has changed significantly over time. “Many of these storms are short-lived systems that are now being identified because of better monitoring and policy changes that now name sub-tropical storms,” Dennis Feltgen, meteorologist at the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) told BBC Weather. The number of named storms has increased over the decades, but there is no real evidence this is the result of a warming world.’
In fact there was a step change in policy in 2002, when the US National Hurricane Center began naming all sub-tropical storms. Previously these were given only a number.
Before the satellite era, of course, most of the storms now named would not even have been spotted in the middle of the ocean.
In short, we now name more storms than before 2002, but there is no evidence that more storms are actually occurring. And when they tell you it was the fourth busiest season on record, they actually mean the fourth busiest since 2002!
(I should point out that the named storms do not include the storms which the Met Office gives silly names to – these are known as extratropical storms.)
. . . or more powerful
MANY people believe that hurricanes are either becoming more frequent, more powerful, or both, because the media tell them so. The BBC, for example, still broadcast a video produced in 2022 on their weather page, which wrongly claimed hurricanes are getting stronger.
The real world data shows there is no basis for any of these claims.
The best long-term record we have is for hurricanes which have made landfall in the US. The US Hurricane Research Division have records dating back to 1851, and they believe that this database is probably pretty complete since 1900, by which time most of the Atlantic and Gulf coast had been populated.
The data is perfectly clear: there has been no increasing trend in the frequency of either all hurricanes or the stronger ones (Cat 3 and over).
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the US federal agency who deal with all climate matters, recently confirmed this:
This year there was just one hurricane in the US, well below the 30-year average of 3.8.
Many hurricanes meander around the Atlantic without ever hitting the US, and it is only since full satellite coverage began in the 1980s that we have been able to track them from start to finish. For this reason, long-term comparisons are not only worthless, but highly and deliberately misleading.
And here’s another Brit who’s discovered what any number of us have been saying for a long time:
WHEN I say that I have never been the same since the Covid debacle, I’m sure I am speaking for very many people. Before the first lockdown of March 23, 2020, I was bumbling along, writing articles and books, going on foreign holidays, meeting friends for lunch and dinner, going to the gym several times a week and pretty much enjoying life.
Since then, life has changed so dramatically, and generally for the worse, that I am sure it will never return to what it was. All of a sudden, measures were introduced which had never been implemented in peacetime, and were rigidly enforced. Our previous freedoms, taken for granted, were severely curtailed. We had to wear masks, distance ourselves from family and friends even when we were perfectly well and told to test ourselves regularly for the presence of a hitherto unknown and deadly virus. The most alarming aspect of all this was not that so many citizens accepted these restrictions but were actually baying for more.
In December 2020, the first vaccine was rolled out in the UK and we were coerced into taking it. In some instances, it was compulsory to have the jab if you wanted to continue in your job, to travel or to be admitted to hospital. Television presenters such as Piers Morgan and Andrew Neil, while knowing nothing whatever about the make-up of the vaccine or what its effects might be, condemned those who declined it as half-wits or quarter-wits. They went further, thundering that refuseniks should be denied medical treatment for putting everybody else at risk. When were we last forced to have an untested, experimental medication which had no discernible benefit and could cause great harm?
Now, four years on from Covid being touted as a new and highly infectious respiratory virus in November 2019 and the worldwide fear and panic which was induced as a result, my previously comfortable little existence has been aroused out of its torpor. The main reason for this is that some very uncomfortable truths have forced themselves on me.
Among them are:
1. In so far as I thought about them at all, I assumed that the World Health Organization and the United Nations were benign institutions, promoting peace, goodwill and health for all. I know now that they are the complete opposite and are among the most corrupt outfits in the world;
…. 3. The pharmaceutical industry, far from being dedicated to making us healthy and well, is mainly invested in illness, as that is where the profits are. They want to get us all on drugs, preferably for life, as there is no money in a well person. This means that we must be constantly tested for this or that illness, given multiple injections and if possible put on medications such as statins for life. None of these drugs makes people well. At best, they may prolong the agony, as many have severe long-term side effects. Meanwhile, natural remedies, such as vitamins C and D, fresh air and exercise, have been denigrated as ‘unproven’. My realisation is that most pharmaceutical preparations not only do not cure but often make things worse. Yet they are heavily advertised everywhere, the latest being for a vaccination against shingles shown at every cinema in the UK. There is some evidence to suggest that the Covid vaccines encourage shingles to develop, and certainly I have known several people who have developed this painful condition after one or other of the Covid jabs. Whether or not there is a link, I just don’t trust the industry any more, and I now steer very clear of all medications, doctors and hospitals;
4. Politicians are largely in the hands of lobbyists and donors, who naturally attach conditions to their donations. If I had previously suspected this, I now know it to be an incontrovertible fact;
5. Covid restrictions and mandates have served to divide society and friends and families, in some cases beyond repair. Maybe that was the plan all along – to restrict gatherings and make us wear masks and isolate, so that we were marooned in our own tiny spaces, unable to connect with others and exchange ideas as we once did. The shutting down of schools, universities and business places enabled this isolation, and working from home, of course, intensified being shut off from our fellow humans;
6. Climate change, or at least man-made climate change, is pretty much a scam and as much a money-making exercise for a few elites as Covid and the pharmaceutical industry. Yes, the climate is always changing but I now believe that the human input is minimal. Once again, thanks to so many scales falling from my eyes, I have been able to research the climate controversy for myself, and without having to take undue notice of the likes of David Attenborough and Chris Packham, BBC luvvies who, indirectly at least, benefit from Gates money;
7. Once, I was happy to use cards instead of cash, believing that this system of payment was easier and more efficient than carrying wads of notes around. When Covid stalked the land, cash was considered dirty, as it had often passed through many hands, some of which might have been infected with the virus. As such, it was being cynically phased out on spurious health grounds. Cards were cleaner and gradually, ever more restaurants and businesses became ‘cashless’ or ‘card only’. It then dawned on me or, more accurately, was pointed out, that debit and credit cards enable every transaction to be monitored, whereas cash is less easy to track, and that was the real reason for trying to do away with the folding stuff. So now I get wads of cash out from the bank and never use cards if I can possibly help it. Once again, my eyes have been opened as to what is really going on and that is: control;
8. Finally, I have come to the conclusion that we have been taken for a massive ride by politicians, banks, lawyers, scientists, doctors, civil servants and international institutions and it has taken Covid to make me realise it. So perhaps some good has come out of it, after all.
