Daily Archives: November 12, 2013

CORYDON, Iowa — The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America’s push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted streams that dump fertilizer into the water supply. Even the cemetery … Continue reading →

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I was living in Houston in September 1988, when the actual most powerful hurricane was forecast to hit the Texas coast. I remember covering the windows at the college I was teaching at in preparation for the storm. Fortunately the … Continue reading →

They had more than 24 hours notice, and had they been two miles inland would have been safe. Why were people in range of the storm surge at the time the storm hit? There shouldn’t have been any casualties. Part … Continue reading →

NOAA and NASA claim that 2012 was “by far” the hottest year ever in the US, based on massively tampered data. But a look at the raw data shows that 2012 was not a very hot year in the US. … Continue reading →

Typhoon Haiyan tore through the Philippines at record wind speeds before losing power and heading northwest. Mapping the Destruction of Typhoon Haiyan – Map – NYTimes.com The picture below clearly shows that the bulk of the damage was from the … Continue reading →

If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth. Bonus question : which one still believes it?

Philippine president Benigno Aquino III said local officials exaggerated the likely death toll from typhoon Haiyan, which he put at between 2,000 and 2,500. Initial estimates from officials in the hardest-hit Leyte province had been 10,000 dead or more. Typhoon … Continue reading →

Jeff Masters rushed to press that Yolanda had the highest wind speeds ever at landfall, before there was any actual surface data available.  It turned out that he exaggerated the wind speeds by more than 30%. His claimed basis was … Continue reading →