The Al Gore climate propaganda machine will be in full swing for 24 hours starting September 14. His objective is to convince people that recent severe weather events are a result of global warming and climate change, supposedly caused by human CO2 emissions.
Unfortunately for Al Gore and his warming fundamentalist followers, severe weather events happen regardless of human CO2. The extreme weather events of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s provide ample evidence that the higher levels of 2011 atmospheric CO2 are irrelevant.
Below is a list of severe weather incidents (and other items of interest) that took place during the 50s, 60s and 70s. These terrible and destructive events occurred well before the current decade's hysteria about CO2 emissions. These events represent empirical evidence (reality) that refutes Al Gore's type of climate science.
The expanded severe weather list can be found here.
1950: Floods In Brazil & Ecuador Take 150 Lives - Train Plunges Off Washed-Out Bridge
1950: Hurricane Sweeps Along New England Coast - 60 MPH Winds, Mountainous Waves
1950: 1,000 Villages In Pakistan Destroyed By Flooding
1950: Cold Wind And Dust Storm Sweep Over Bombay, India
1950: Record Rain In Queensland, Australia
1950: Minnesota, N. Dakota & Nebraska Regions Swamped By Flooding
1950: Oregon Heat Wave Breaks Temperature Records
1950: Oklahoma's 'Dust Bowl' Region Struck By New Drought
1950: Nine Die In Midwest Dust Storm
1950: 3rd Dust Storm This Year Strikes Wheat States
1950: Scientists Find Earth Warming, And Glaciers Melting
1950: Eroding Beaches In Australia Due to Rapid Sea Level Rises
1950: Rapid Warming In Greenland - Sea Temperatures Up By Several Degrees
1950: Six Nations Send Scientists To Arctic To Investigate Glacier & Ice Cap Melting
1950: Scientist Says Sidney, Australia Climate Getting Hotter
1951: MIT Scientist Correctly Predicts Global Cooling – Based On Sunspots, Not CO2
1951: Bone-Dry Texas Swelters From Heatwave
1951: Bakersfield, California Life Halted Due To Blinding Dust Storm
1951: Warming of Greenland & Melting Exposes Medieval Farm-Homes Buried Under Ice For Centuries
1951: Hurricane Level Winds Lash America's Midwest - Flash Floods, Snow & Heat Wave!
1951: Floods, Drought Ravage China Over 3-Month Period
1951: Kansas City Crippled by Missouri River Flood Waters, St. Louis Next
1951: 100 Degree Heatwave Lasts For 7 Weeks In Texas
1951: Eastern Airlines Pilot Runs Into A Sahara Dust Storm 700 Miles From U.S. Coast
1952: Hundreds Killed In Southern Tornadoes; Flooding On Lake Erie; Blizzard On the Plains
1952: "Worst Ever Seen" Dust Storm Covers The Columbia Basin In State of Washington
1952: Previously Submerged Town Behind Grand Coulee Dam Has Dust Storm
1952: Exodous Begins - Imminent Starvation Due To Drought Facing Mexican Families
1952: Missouri River "Savagery" Causes Massive Flooding In Iowa
1952: Mississippi River Floods - Record Crests In Minnesota & Wisconsin
1952: Norweigan & Alaskan Glaciers Have Shrunk 50% Since 1902 Says Scientist
1952: July Extended Heatwave – 104 Degrees In Norway & 106 In Italy
1952: March Earthquake, Tsunami And Snowstorm Hits Japan
1952: Alaska is really getting warmer
1952: Scientist Says Both Polar Ice Caps Melting At Alarming Rate
1952: Billowing Dust Storm Shrieks Across Southwest U.S.
1952: Massive Arctic Warming, Glaciers Lose Half Their Size, Seas Are Ice Free Most Of The Time
1952: Record Rain Pummels Texas After Record Drought
1953: Hurricane's Sea Floods Kill More Than 900 In Europe - Worst Since 15th Century
1953: Scientists Say Antarctica Ice Melting Rapidly
1953: Australia's 'Atomic" Port Struck by Hurricane - Every Single Builing Damaged
1953: Wisconsin Heat Wave Pales To Heat Wave They Had In 1936
1953: Choking Dust Storm Darkens Most of Texas
1953: Severe Drought - Texas & Oklahoma Declared Major Disaster Areas
1953: Tornadoes Roar Through Georgia & Alabama - 24 Dead
1953: 3rd Huge Dust Storm In 10 Days Blasts America's Wheat Areas
1953: Tornado Rampage Killed Hundreds In Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, Texas
1953: Drought Dries Up Rio Grande River, Missouri River Is Flooding Montana
1953: Heat Wave Blisters U.S. East of The Rockies
1953: Sweden Takes Steps To Stop Paratyphiod Epidemic
1954: 100 MPH Blizzard Winds Howl Across Nebraska
1954: Scientists Tell Congress That The Arctic Might Be Navigable By 1979
1954: North African Earthquake Followed By More Tremors - 1,340 Deaths In Algeria
1954: Longest Drought Expands To Four U.S. States
1954: Heat Wave In Illinois Registers 112 Degree Temperature - Highest Ever
1954: Dixie First Hit By Dust Storms Then Tornadoes
1954: Hurricane Carol Stampedes Through New England - 49 Dead
1954: Hurricane Edna Blasts New England & Canada
1954: Hurricane Hazel Strikes Haiti, U.S. & Canada - At Least 1,000 Dead
1954: 8 Hurricanes Wreak Havoc On U.S. During 1954 - Worst Year On Record
1954: 18 Die In Airliner Crash Caused By Mexican Dust Storm
1954: Radioactive Dust Storm Injures 23 Japanese Fishermen
1955: "Science Agrees! Our Weather Is Changing"
1955: Heavy snows strike France
1955: Northeast US Hit By The Worst Floods In History – Twice
1955: Iceland Hurricane & Snowstorm Sinks 2 Ships - 40 Men Lost
1955: Blizzard Kills 42 Across The U.S. Great Plains
1955: Long Island Sized Iceberg Breaks Off From Antarctica
1955: Muggy Heat Wave In America But Buenos Aires Has 1st Snowfall In 37 Years
1955: Heat Wave Brings Milwaukee Extreme Temperatures
1955: 51 Los Angeles Residents Die From Heat Wave
1955: Europeans Suffer From Long Heat Wave - 70 Die
1955: 25 Million Indians & Pakistanis Lose Their Homes To Floods
1956: 400,000 Square Miles of Australia Threatened By Floods
1956: “moisture conditions are the worst in recorded history”
1956: South Pole Iceberg Sighted That Is 3X The Size of Manhattan Island
1956: 30% of U.S. Has Extreme Drought Conditions
1956: 150 Forest Fires Plague New Mexico & Arizona
1957: "Worst Heat Wave In 100 Years" Scorches Argentina
1957: Arctic Heat Wave Has Russian Scientists Sunbathing; Polar Thunderstorm Is Reported
1957: Greenland Ice Mountains Melting From Extreme Heat Wave
1957: U.S. Heat Wave Deaths Mount
1957: “one of the worst droughts in American history”
1957: European Heat Wave Claims 339 Lives
1957: Hurricane Audrey Kills 431 - Texas & Louisiana Suffer Greatly
1957: After Four Years U.S. Drought Expands To 29 Million Acres
1958: Florida Shivers From Record Cold Winter
1958: Devastating Snow Blizzard Burys New England - 45 Dead
1958: Japanese Typhoon Kills 2,500
1959: China Suffers Severe Crop losses Due To Major Drought
1959: Aussie Tennis Open Threatened By 100 Degree Heat Wave
1959: Madagascar's "Unique" Cyclone, Torrential Rain & Floods Leave 50,000 Homeless
1959: Disastrous Snow Fall & Floods Cripple South Africa - Snow 8 Feet Deep
1959: Ice Free North Pole During March
1959: Open Water & Thin Ice Let U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Close In On North Pole
1960: Hurricane Winds Lash Northwest Europe
1960: Hurricane Donna Pummels East Coast - From Florida To New England
1960: Raging Seas & 40-Foot Waves Pound California Coast
1960: Record Blizzard Burys Boston In 11-Foot Snow Drifts - 130 Die
1960: 'New Scientist' Magazine Says Arctic To Be Ice Free By The Year 2000
1961: Drought Disaster In Manitoba, Canada
1961: Outside Opera Stage Collapses In Italy From Windstorm - 40 MPH Gusts
1961: Hurricane Carla With 170 MPH Gusts Delivers Devastation Across Texas
1961: “Crushing Drought” Hits Australia
1961: Heavy Damage From South African Floods
1962: "Hong Kong Heat Wave; 14 Straight Days Above 90 Degrees"
1962: Four-Story Waves Slam U.S. East Coast - 27 Dead
1962: Severe Drought Hits Everglades, Wildlife Afflicted
1962: Hurricane Daisy Causes Severe Damage In New England & Canadian Maritime Provinces
1962: Open Water At The North Pole
1962: Avalanche In Alaska Triggered By Violent Windstorm
1962: Storms & 117 MPH Winds Take Big Toll In Europe
1963: U.S. Research Station Breaks Away From Antarctica - Now A Floating Iceberg
1963: Hurricane Winds Lash At Ireland, Wales & England
1963: Windstorm That Strikes Eastern U.S. Packs Winds Up To 90 MPH
1963: Hurricane Flora Kills 4,000 In Haiti
1963: Residents Flee Homes In East Pakistan As Flooding Continues
1963: "Killer Heat Wave Hits Brazilian Towns"
1963: Saipan Typhoon: 50% of Homes Destroyed, 100% of Farmers' Crops Ruined
1963: Hurricane Ginny Brings Rain - Lessens Drought/Fire Potential In New England Area
1963: Oregon Raked By 90 MPH Windstorm Gusts
1964: Gigantic 9.2 Earthquake Hits Anchorage
1964: Portland, Oregon Hit With Flood Waters & Windstorm Gusts of 45 MPH
1964: "Worst U.S. Drought In Century
1964: 75 MPH Windstorm Gusts Smash Texas Coastal Area
1964: Hurricane Hilda Lands In Louisiana, 120 MPH Winds - 20 Dead
1964: Hurricane Dora Slams Directly Into Florida's East Coast
1965 : Drought Emergency In The Eastern U.S.
1965: Proposals To Save Parched Everglades From Drought Considered
1965: One-Third of Australia Is Affected By Drought
1965: Hurricane 'Billion-Dollar-Betsy' Slams Lousiana With 150 MPH Winds
1965: Africa's Parched Wasteland From Drought Threatens Imminent Starvation
1966: Midwest Heat Wave Blamed On Jet Stream & High Pressure Zones
1966: Tashkent Suffers Worst Earthquake In Over 100 Years
1966: U.S. Northeast In 3rd Year of Extreme Drought
1966: Destructive Windstorm Pummels Cleveland, Ohio
1966: Worst Italian Flood In Centuries
1967: Rare Tornadoes Sweep Across Europe - 20 Dead
1967: Seared Everglades In Grip of Drought, Fires Adding To Misery
1967: "Hurricane Like Winds Batter New England" - For Two Days
1967: Two Days of Torrential Rains & Flash Floods Takes Lives In Sao Paulo, Brazil Region
1967: Hurricane Beulah Hits Mexico With 165 MPH Winds, Causes 115 Tornadoes In Texas
1967: Scientist Predicts Pine Beetles Will Destroy Idaho Forests By 1987
1967: Scientist Predicts Hundreds of Millions Will Starve To Death By 1985
1967: Buffalo, NY Hit With Tremendous Windstorm - Winds Up To 96 MPH
1967: Hindus Slaughtering Sacred Cows To Hold Off Starvation Caused By Drought
1967: 3rd Major Flood of Year Raises Brazil's Death Total To 900 - Incessant Rain To Blame
1967: Rainless Heat Wave Produces Roaring Forest Fire Across Italy's Vacation Island of Capri
1968: Expert Predicts 65 Million Americans To Starve During The 1980s
1968: From UK To Middle East, Blizzards & High Winds Cause Destruction, Death Over One Day
1968: Heat Wave Causes 550 To Collapse At Wimbeldon
1968: Sudden Windstorm On Lake Eire Turns Perfect Night Into Nightmare - 15 Foot Wave Surge
1968: Sahara Sand Falls On London While Fist-Sized Hail Bombards Wales
1968: Violent Windstorm Lashes Sicily's Earthquake Disaster Area
1968: Windstorm & Hail Wreak "Near-Catastrophic" Damage On Oregon Forest
1968: Windstorm Batters 60 Block Area of North Miami Beach - Significant Damage
1969: 4 British Arctic Explorers Go On Polar Bear Killing Spree
1969: NYT Reports That Arctic Will Be An Open Sea By The 1980s
1969: Northwest Passage Normally Open 2-4 Months A Year
1969: Wisconsin State Fair Slammed By Windstorm - Large Tents Collapsed, Hundreds Hurt
1969: Record Storms, Droughts And Floods Hit US
1969: Freak Windstorm Packing 125 MPH Winds Slams Into Boulder, Colorado
1969: NYT - Instant Ice Age On The Way
1969: Monster Cat-5 Hurricane Camille Flattens Mississippi With 190 MPH Gale
1969: Tundra & Forest Fires Plague Alaska's Arctic Cirle Area
1969: 9-Day Rain Deluge Brings California Its Worst Flooding & Mudlsides In 30 Years
1969: Scientist Predicts Humans Only Have Few Decades To Solve Global Warming
1969: Severe Windstorm, Giant Waves & Torrential 6 Inch Rainfall Roar Through Lake Erie Region
1969: Brazil Gets Sizzling Heat Wave & Honk Kong Flu At Same Time
1970: Everglades "Deer Crisis" Result of Too Much Water
1970: Popular Mechanics - Global Warming To Raise Temperatures Nine Degrees By 2020
1970: Brazil's Torrential Rain & Floods Leaves Tens of Thousands Homeless
1970: 50,000 Likely Dead From Huge Earthquake In Peru Says UN
1970: Hurricane Pummels Greenland With 100 MPH Winds & 22 Degrees Below Zero Cold
1970: Bangaladesh Struck By 13 “disastrous cyclones” Prior To Major 1970 Storm
1970: Killer Pakistan Flood Toll Now At 55,000
1970: Arctic Has Most Ice In Over 60 Years
1970: Global Cooling - "Will Igloos Be The Homes of The Future?"
1970: Strong Earthquake Jolts New Guinea Coast
1970: Typhoon & Tidal Wave Hits E. Pakistan - 1,000,000 Deaths Likely
1970: Climatologists Forecast A New Ice Age
1971: "World Is Weather Beaten" - Multiple Areas of Europe Experience Extreme Weather
1971: Huge Snows & 50 MPH Winds Paralyze U.S. Midwest
1971: Tornado Kills Several People In French Town
1971: Large Ocean Earthquake Strikes Near Siberian Coast
1971: Cyclone & 16-Foot Tidal Wave Slam India - 20,000 May Have Perished
1971: Six Months Of Heavy Rain Cause Severe Flooding In Colombia
1971: 20,000 Sq. Miles of East Africa Severely Impacted By Cyclone & Floods
1971: Hundreds Missing In Cape Province, South Africa Floods
1971: Torrential Rains & Floods In Brazil Claim At Least 160 Lives
1971: 24 Perish During Australia Floods
1971: Floods Leave 200,000 Homeless In Malaysia
1971: Drought Leaves Everglades Parched & Fire-Plagued
1971 : Ice Age Refugee Dies Underground
1971: Landslides & Tornadoes Pummel Southern Europe
1972: Arctic Expert Predicts Ice Free North Pole By Year 2000
1972: "Weird Weather Sweeps Europe"
1972: 118 Dead, 400 Thousand Homeless From U.S. East Coast Floods
1972: 100 Degrees In Moscow Heat Wave
1972: Northern U.S. To Warm 25 Degrees & Arctic Ice Free By The Year 2000
1972: 300 Feared Dead From Flooding In Rapid City, South Dakota
1972: 10-Days of Record Rain Causes Postponement of World Series Between the Reds and the A's.
1972" There's A New Ice Age Coming!
1972: Major Stanford Univ. Scientist Predicts Billions Will Disappear In "Blue Steam" By 1992
1972: Scientists Predict Huge Tsunamis To Strike Coasts of Japan & Russia
1972: Earthquake Destroys Capitol of Nicaraugua, Kills Thousands
1973: Augusta, Georgia Has Record Snowstorm
1973: Sweltering Heat Wave Causes Water Shortages In Midwest & East Coast
1973: Worst Floods In Pakistan's History
1973: Japan Jolted By Three Earthquakes, Then A Tidal Wave
1973: North Africa Ravaged By Floods - 102 Dead, Over 40,000 Homeless
1973: California Shaken By Earthquake
1974: Global Cooling Causes World Food Shortages
1974: Chicago's Sears Tower Loses Multiple Windows From 60 MPH Blizzard Winds
1974: Winter Rainstorm In California Claims 14 Lives
1974: Tornado Destroys Zepplin Hanger In Germany - 28 Die Across Europe
1974: The Super Outbreak is the largest tornado outbreak on record for a single 24-hour period - 148 tornadoes, 13 US states
1974: Largest Tornado Outbreak In History Blamed On Global Cooling - Newsweek Magazine
1974: Major Earthquake Strikes The Solomon Island Area In The South Pacific
1974: Typhoons & Tidal Waves Bash Phillipines and Bangladesh
1974: Cyclone Tracy Completely Destroys Darwin, Australia
1974: Brazillians Face Famine Due To Torrential Rains & Major Flooding
1974: Wildfires Raging In Everglades - Cause Is "Worst Drought Ever"
1974: Massive Floods In India And Bangladesh
1974: Cholera Strikes Half-Flooded Bangladesh
1974: Brisbane Recieved 34 Inches Of Rain In January (Almost 300% Of What It Received In January 2011)
1974: Major Pacific Northwest Storm Claims 15 Deaths
1974: NCAR Executive Director Warns Of Global Cooling And Resultant Crop Losses
1974: Climate Change to cause "food wars" say U.S. & European scientists
1974: Global Cooling Causes Widespread Drought
1974: Nome, Alaska "Ravaged" By Flood & Storms
1974: "Extremely Dangerous" Hurricane Carmen To Slam New Orleans After Hitting Yucatan
1974: Expanding Ice Cap And Himalayan Glaciers Threaten World’s Food Supply, Leading Scientists Say
1974: Summer Tornadoes Kill 23 Across Kansas, Other States
1974 : Another Ice Age? - Climatologists Blamed US/Pakistan Flooding On Global Cooling
1974: CIA Determines Moscow Drought And Midwest Floods Result of Global Cooling
1974: Combination of Cold Weather & Meningitis Kills 500 In Brazil
1975: U.S. Senator Predicts 85% of Animal Species Will Be Extinct by 1995
1975: Powerful Spring Blizzard Blankets New England With Up To 32 Inches of Snow
1975: Strong Central Rocky Mountain Earthquake Rumbles Through Salt Lake City
1975: During Global Cooling, Malaria Makes Comeback In Pakistan
1975: National Academy Of Sciences Warned Of A Coming Ice Age
1975: Chicago's O'Hare Airport Closed Only For 3rd Time In History Due To Paralyzing Snow Blizzard
1975: Strong Earthquake Rattles Northern California
1975: Both East & West Coasts of U.S. Hit By Torrential Rains
1975: Climate Modelers Ponder Return To An Ice Age
1975: Hurricane Eloise Brings Destruction To Puerto Rico & Dominican Republic
1975: Canadian Prairie Heat Wave Does "Irreversible Damage" To Crops
1975: "Heat Wave Bakes European Cities"
1975: Sweden Closes Manufacturing Plants Due To Heat Wave
1975 : U.S. Scientist Holdren Says US Has Too Much Energy – “less energy can mean more employment”
1976: CIA Experts Predict Political & Economic Upheavals From Global Cooling Over Next 40 Years
1976: College Professor Predicts Sea Level To Rise 330 Feet By 2050
1976: Aussie's Flee Doomsday Predicted Tidal Wave - Scientists Were Wrong, The "Wave" Only 6 Inches
1976: Massive Earthquake Predicted For California By U.S. Govt Scientist
1976: Worst Drought In England And Wales For 500 Years
1976: Extended Heat Wave In Many Parts of Europe
1976: Heat Wave In London Causes Tempers To Flare & Fisticuffs
1976: Big Thompson River Received 14 Inches Of Rain In Four Hours
1976: Rare Tropical Storm Blasts Southwestern U.S. With Torrential Rains & Near Hurricane Winds
1976: "Mother Nature On Rampage" - Earthquake In Philippines & Volcano Erupts On Caribbean Island
1976: Colorado Flooding Toll Over 80, May Hit 200
1976: 1,000 Feared Dead From Hurricane Liza - 130 MPH Winds & Mudslides Leave 70,000 Homeless
1976: Vail Ski Resort Has No Snow To Ski On
1976: Torrential Rains Bring Flash Floods To California Desert Region
1976: U.S. Wheat Shipped To Flood Ravaged Pakistan -- 5 Million Forced From Homes
1976: April 20 - 98 Degrees In Rhode Island And Seventeen Tornadoes In Texas
1977 : “Second Coming Of The Ice Age”
1977: Western U.S. Drought Blamed On Global Warming
1977: Professor Says CO2 Has Saved The Planet From An Ice Age
1977: Tornado In Bangladesh Killed Hundreds Of People
1977: Giant Earthquake's Tsunami Plows Through Indonesia
1977: Earthquake 'Swarm' Shakes Aleutian Islands - Too Many Quakes To Count
1977: Antarctica Iceberg Is 45 Miles Long & 25 Miles Wide
1977: Almost Every State Registers At Least 90 Degrees During Great Heat Wave
1977: Heat Wave Said To Be A Result of Atmosphere Being In A "Rut"
1977: Drought Plagues California - Concerns That All of S. California Will Be Impacted
1977: Arctic Tundra Fire Burns Half-Million Acres - Lightning Caused
1977: 46 Dead From Johnstown, Pennsylvania Flood
1977: 2 Feet of Snow Burys New York While Torrential Rain Deluge Causes California Mudslides
1977: "Cyclone, Tidal Wave Wreak Havoc In India" - 10,000 Dead, 2 Million Homeless
1977: Worst Drought In California History - Year 2
1977: Blizzard With 80 Degree Below Zero Temperature Conditions Roars Through U.S. Midwest
1977: Caribbean Island Nation Suffers From Severe Drought, Many Near Starvation
1978: Freak Tornado Strikes New Delhi, India
1978: “we’re entering little ice age’
1978: 80 MPH Winds & Snow Blizzard Cripples Ohio, Indiana & Kentucky
1978: Freak 1-Day Rain Downpour Unearths Corpses In California
1978: Indochina Monsoon Deluge Threatens Millions
1978: Torrential Rain Causes Rock Slides In Arizona & Mudslides In California
1978: U.S. Scientists Fear Indiana-Sized Bulge of Earth's Crust In S. California
1978: 8 Inches of Rain Cause Severe Flooding In Arizona
1978: Chinese Authorities Act To Protect Workers & Students From Extreme Heat Wave
1978: Huge Iceberg Floating In S. Atlantic Is 30 Times Larger Than Manhattan Island
1979: Midwest Blizzard Leaves 29 Dead In Wake - Chicago Closed Down By Huge Storm
1979: 2nd Massive Snow Blizzard In a Week Smothers Chicago
1979: Record Rain Deluge Finally Ends Florida's Drought
1979: Drought In Soviet Union Likely Cause Crop Prices To Increase
1979: “Cooling trend expected to continue into next century”
1979: Hood Canal Bridge In Washington Destroyed By Windstorm - 100+ MPH Gusts
1979: "French Riviera Swept By Huge Tidal Wave"
1979: Another Bad Drought In The Making For Northern California
1979: Massive Earthquake & Tidal Wave Flatten 6 Towns In Columbia
1979: Scientist Predict Global Warming, Then Global Cooling
1979: Skylab's Crash Caused By NASA Underestimating Solar Warming of Atmosphere