Guest Post by Michael Snyder
All over the planet, global weather patterns have gone completely nuts. Just over the past few days we have seen “life threatening” heatwaves, extremely dangerous wildfires, vicious tornadoes and unprecedented flooding – and that is just in the United States. And of course this is just the continuation of a trend that stretches back to last year, when extremely weird weather created “apocalyptic-like conditions” in many areas around the world. So why is this happening? For decades, we could count on weather patterns falling within fairly predictable parameters, but now that is completely changing all of a sudden. All over the globe we are seeing things happen that we have never seen happen before, and the weather just seems to get even more crazy with each passing month.
Just consider what has been going on the past few days. Let’s start with the “life threatening” heatwave that is currently hammering the west coast…
The West Coast is in the grip of a ‘life threatening’ triple-digit heatwave that is set to continue well into next week, raising the risk of wildfires.
The National Weather Service has issued excessive heat warnings for southeastern California, southern Nevada, western and southern Arizona, western Oregon and far southwest Washington.
From Oregon to Nevada temperatures are set to top 100F tomorrow and into Monday, with Phoenix, Arizona, predicted to top out at 116F.
These are temperatures that you might expect to see in July or August, but right now summer has not even officially begun yet.
And as the article quoted above noted, these extremely high temperatures bring with them a much higher risk of wildfires. In fact, firefighters in southern California are currently fighting a horrible fire that is raging wildly out of control and that has already forced thousands of people (including Kim Kardashian and Kanye West) out of their homes…
A massive brush fire Saturday in the Calabasas area forced mandatory evacuations as rapid flames consumed 516 acres and threatened 3,000 homes, the Los Angeles County Fire Department said.
“This is a fast-moving, dangerous fire,” Los Angeles County Fire Chief Dennis Cross said. “It’s hard for people to see where this fire is because of the dense canopy and the canyons.”
If you follow my work closely, you already know that 2015 was the worst year for wildfires in all of U.S. history.
More acres burned in the U.S. last year than we had ever seen before.
And so far this year, we are more than a million acres ahead of the pace set last year.
Meanwhile, CNN is reporting that this “is the second year in a row that Texas has been hit by 500-year floods“…
“It could just be really bad luck,” said CNN Senior Meteorologist Brandon Miller. “A 500-year flood doesn’t mean you will go 500 years between them. It just means it is such an extreme event that the odds of it happening are very low, therefore it only happens on average every 500 years.
“It just so happens that parts of Texas have seen them now in back-to-back years, and maybe even twice this year. The odds of that happening are infinitesimally small.”
In a recent article, I noted that the United States has now been hit by 10 major flooding events since the end of last September.
Never before in U.S. history have we ever seen so many major floods in such a compressed period of time.
And the hits just keep on coming. On Sunday, the east coast was bracing for a series of storms which appeared poised to produce very high winds, severe thunderstorms and even possibly some tornadoes. The following comes from the Daily Mail…
The East Coast is braced for an incoming storm that could see up to seventeen million people hit with tropical rain, thunderstorms and even tornadoes.
People from New York through North Carolina could be affected, as thunderstorms were expected to blast winds up to 55 miles per hour later on Sunday.
The Governors Ball in New York City was cancelled for safety reasons after organizers saw the forecast for lightning.
And on top of everything else, Florida is about to be hit by tropical storm Colin.
But don’t worry, because all of this is perfectly “normal”, right?
Across the Atlantic, Europe is also dealing with some extremely crazy weather. Major flooding is being reported all over the continent, and the French just experienced their wettest month since 1886…
Segments of France’s border with Belgium received six-week’s worth of rain in under 24 hours earlier this week, causing widespread flooding across the country. May has been the country’s rainiest month since 1886, Radio France Internationale says.
As a result of that rain, French meteorologists expect the already-swollen Seine in Paris to peak at 6.5 meters (21 feet) above its usual level on Friday. The Louvre is closed due to flooding concerns, and workers have been busy moving priceless works of art as a precautionary measure.
On the other side of the planet, many areas of India have been dealing with an unprecedented heatwave. On Thursday, May 19th, the all-time record for the highest temperature ever recorded in India was broken. And this was part of a crippling heatwave that pushed temperatures in northern India “above 104 degrees for weeks”…
A severe heat wave warning is in place for much of India through Saturday. Temperatures in northern India have risen above 104 degrees for weeks, the BBC reported. The weather has killed hundreds of people and destroyed crops in more than 13 states, the Associated Press reported.
If this happened where you live, you could just go inside and turn on the air conditioning.
But most of those people do not have air conditioning, and that is why hundreds of them have been dying.
At the exact same time when the crust of our planet is becoming increasingly unstable, our weather is starting to become really crazy too.
Some people are going to dismiss all of this as just a bizarre series of coincidences, others will want to blame “global warming”, and yet others will see all of this as a sign that Jesus is coming back soon.
But what is truly frightening to consider is this…
What if our weather just keeps getting crazier and crazier?
If our weather continues to spiral out of control, it is inevitable that there will be major famines, widespread riots and tremendous political unrest all over the planet.
Is our world equipped to be able to handle seven billion people going absolutely nuts all at once?
Let us hope and pray for weather patterns to begin to return to normal, because I don’t think that we are.
Snyder, you are a major league douchebag. Everyone knows all we have to do is raise taxes and all this bullshit will stop. Get a real job, you’re a terrible con man. In liberty, starfuck
Planet is 4.2 billion years old. Little early to be saying you detect patterns isn’t it? Thats a human flaw called pareidolia. Whats 5000 years divided into 4.2 billion? One eight hundred and forty thousandth. How is your work day going one eight hundred forty thousandth of the way into it?
I live in N. CA,, but we are having is summer of fairly mild weather,so far.. Yesterday it was 102F, but the rest of week it will be 86/97F, that is hardly a heat wave…While I do use my whole house fan at night , we have yet to turn on the AC during the day. .
Mr. Synder…….Never before in U.S. history have we ever reported on the minutiae of weather events as we do today. Notice how the media in the last two years announces what used to be normal events as ‘extreme’. Gullible much. Get scared easily Mr. Snyder?; Change your diapers often?
Take your BullShit and shove it where the Sun doesn’t shine.
Just for kicks:
Over the past 10 years there have been 69 Atlantic hurricanes but during that time no hurricanes of Category 3 or higher have hit the U.S. coastline. Such a string of lucky years is likely to happen only once in 270 years, according to a NASA study.
Statistical analysis indicates that for any given year there is a 40% chance of a Category 3 or higher hurricane landing across the U.S. coastline.
Tornadic activity in U.S. has similar stats to Hurricanes.
SO, Where’s the Beef?
We have had a lot of unusual volcanic activity here in Minnesota.
Weather varies. By definition.
Climate changes. Gradually.
Snyder writes alarmist pieces to try and get page views. Daily.
This guy Snyder is a nutcase. Kokoda is right. We don’t have records going back very far – especially for satellites (~ 30 years). The Argo Array of sensors (detecting temperatures) was only deployed in 2007 – and since the buoys have been moving along with ocean tides and flows, comparing the buoys’ temps is difficult, to say the least, requiring some guesswork.
What if our weather just keeps getting crazier and crazier? Then we will pay a carbon tax. The top 0.1% will buy even more yachts and Rembrandts.
So we get hotter from Heat Islands, solar aging (sun will get hotter for 4 billion more years), increased Earth Fault Line contact with Seas etc but that is a problem for the centuries. We have a bigger problem NOW. I’m a rural farmer and all bugs (bees, moths, etc), frogs, mice, snakes and birds have all decreased very significantly over the last five years so I began a search for a reason(s). I believe it is linked to Atrazine; 75 million pounds are sprayed in America each year but Atrazine doesn’t kill on contact like Raid but screws up animal hormones causing a multitude of health problems especially reproduction which causes higher sterility rates which destroys populations in several generations. Unlike Glyphosate which breaks down in soil in about 6 months, Atrazine can remain many years and is now 30-100 times the EPA acceptable levels in drinking water; Syngenta has paid millions to install filters on municipal water systems. Like a dozen other Major Problems, the NYC Controlled Media SEES NOTHING.
I feel like I’m the only scientists in the world saying “Look guys, either the world as we know it is coming to and end….or we don’t have as good a grasp on ancient climate as we think we do.”
Tree rings, flood deposits, ice core…these are all indirect methods of recording the climate of antiquity, each fraught with their own issues.
Climate models aren’t updates annually to make them more accurate. They are updated annually to try and force a doomsday narrative.
Much like other issues polluting the airwaves, this is essentially a non-issue. Yet another divisive “us vs. them” argument that is meant to keep people from looking at just how screwed we all are.
Did ya guys see the markets today? Jumped like crazy because they are just that confident JanetSmellin won’t increase rates. And she won’t. And the markets will stay “high” for a few days/weeks while everybody suckers more lemmings in.
Then something bad will happen around the world, and shit will plummet again. 2016 is a year of happenings my friends. What a time to be alive and belligerent.
Just finished reading a book about the collapse of the late bronze age. It was pretty interesting and the conclusion was that what brought the period and the civilizations in the Mediterranean to an end was not one single event but rather a chain of events occurring both simultaneously and over period of time. A long period of time. Marauding sea peoples who caused a collapse in international trade combined with internal rebellions, corruption and climate change (think a drought that lasted for over 100 years) all contributed.
This shit is nothing new. I get tired of reading Snyder’s crap. He writes: “If our weather continues to spiral out of control…” our weather has never been under control. The climate has been fluctuating, ebbing and flowing for as long as the planet has been around. For Christ’s sake, 10,000 years ago our continent was covered under a mile of ice. That’s some pretty extreme shit if you ask me. And there ain’t thing one we can do about it if mother nature says it’s going to happen again.
The output of the sun fluctuates. There are long cycle fluctuations and short cycle fluctuations. It’s output is very inconsistent.
Next question?
Five years ago, Snyder seemed reasonable. Now he believes his own bullshit.
Said this before, will say it again for any newbies.
Snyder is a fundy bible-thumping religious nutjob. He believes in a literal reading of the book of Revelation …. with ALL it’s associated woes, trumpets, seals, and scrolls literally coming to pass … which will unleash hell on earth … any day now (!!!) ….. until Jeebus comes back to save the day.
ALL of his writings are predicated on this religious outlook. He is the hammer always looking for a nail. Yet, once in a while he is interesting and perhaps even factual. Mostly, though, he is full of shit.
The only difference is that as this thing marches on and most have suffered doom fatigue, Snyder soldiers on. I don’t hear any of you shit hammering him when its econ matters – he’s a big believer in God’s biblical ‘shakings’ with the earthquakes et al via the shemitah. Dude doesn’t quit, I respect him for it.
The only think is that ist not all of the sudden.
Alex
spit it out Alex….
Before you all start jumping all over Snyder maybe you ought to google HAARP and check out the ability of who the hell ever it is to control weather.
It’s not that this hasn’t happened before, it’s the frequency of the events is increasing.
Distraction.
Stucky, sell that house yet? You’re running out of time if you really want to sell. I have 28 acres of highland with over 1000 feet of river frontage. I’ve dropped the price from 80 to 30 thousand and no bites. I could have sold it for 150,000 in the boom.
I’ll drop it until it sells, and then convert. I would rather have AG than $$$.
@dutchman
I didn’t know volcanos were weather related
@warts
Where?
Warts, that’s how you get it done.
stf, of course, it’s all a matter of weather you want liquidate or not. What you can get is what the market says it is worth, what you want is irrelevant.
North Central Wisconsin
Warts, do any skiing at pine mountain?, used to race up that way.
“Tree rings, flood deposits, ice core…these are all indirect methods of recording the climate of antiquity, each fraught with their own issues.”
But, TPC, didn’t you ever even watch the old X Files? One time it told how some asshole loggers cut down a bunch of like billion year old trees and there was this green microbe thing in the old tree rings and it came swarming out and fucked everybody up.
This shit is serious as a heart attack. You can’t just bust in here and dismiss everybody’s worst fears.
@Fabulous: Yes, we have had much volcanic activity here in Minnesota. But fortunately, the heat has speeded the ripening of the water mellon crop.
obviously Mr. Snyder isn’t very popular at TBP.
he does work hard though, blogs-books-videos…
he is trying to help people…alert people, warn people,
scare people?
@RHS jr
I never heard of Atrazine! Another freakin’ poison wrecking
our soil and water and killing our little critters and bugs.
Basterds…from wiki:
“What is atrazine and why do we love it? – Atrazinelovers
http://www.atrazinelovers.com/m1.html Proxy Highlight
Atrazine is an herbicide (weed-killer) primarily used on corn. Atrazine is the most common chemical contaminant of ground and surface water in the United …”
Atrazine…sounds like a psych med, (do not ever take Abilify or Risperidone)
and don’t use atrazine please. It is so dangerous to eat corn…can’t eat it
unless it is certified organic. Every bite of corn is packed with pesticide and
herbicide.
@dutchman
I didn’t recognize the sarcasm first go round. Bring fruit into it and I catch on quicker.
@warts, sure wish i could buy a property like that somewhere in the south. Sounds like a dream. That sounds great until I realize its in wisonsin.
“ust over the past few days we have seen “life threatening” heatwaves, extremely dangerous wildfires, vicious tornadoes and unprecedented flooding”
When have we not seen “heatwaves, dangerous wildfires, vicious tornadoes, and serious flooding”? Get a grip already. This guy sounds like the morons who point to every natural disaster as some proof of God’s rage at humanity’s sinful ways.
People who write rot like this forget that we have only been keeping weather records for 150 years or so, and that climate science is still very much in its infancy, and we are only beginning to understand how volatile the planet’s “normal” climate is, but anyone who reads any history at all can many periods of much more extreme weather than now.
Wildfires and droughts in California? So what’s new? Wildfires have been burning in CA for a thousand years at least, and the entire Malibu coast has been burned over 3 times since the 1930 Decker Canyon fire. But, before 1930, people did not build $5 M houses in the fire corridor, and then, when it burned down in a wildire, replace it with one costing $50M so it could burn up in the next wildfire.
Floods? The great Mississippi River flood of 1927 is still considered to be one of the worst natural disasters in our country’s history, yet the Ohio River flood of 1937 was far worse- it was a 1000-year flood that displaced over 1,000,000 people and devastated hundreds of small town and farms in Ohio River watershed, and flooded downtown Cincinnati and Pittsburg- Pittsburg’s Golden Triangle business district was under 30′ of water for over a month at least. Look further back and you can find worse floods, but there weren’t massive settlements sitting on the banks of those rivers, so no one remembers them.
Tornadoes? No one now remembers St Louis’ great tornado of 1896, or 1926, and very few people left alive (I’m one of them) remembers even the great 1958 tornado that ripped through the city’s central corridor and destroyed several neighborhoods, while toppling a television tower.
The big problem is with the phrase ‘in recorded history”, which is a tiny fraction of the fraction of world history indigentandindignant calculated for us. Added to the hyper saturation of media these days, and you have a recipe for mass ignorance and mass hysteria.
From this ‘snapshot of history’ perspective, at some point, it would seem prudent to revise the defined parameters of a 500-year flood as more and more data becomes available over time…