<![CDATA[World Record Wind In 1934]]>

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On April 12, 1934 a world record wind gust of 234 MPH occurred on Mt. Washington, New Hampshire.

“There was no doubt this morning that a super-hurricane, Mt. Washington style, was in full development.” — Log Book entry, Sal Pagliuca

http://www.mountwashington.org/about/visitor/recordwind.php

Atmospheric CO2 was at 310 ppm in 1934, well below Hansen’s safe level of 350 ppm.

The following year, 1935, saw the most powerful hurricane to ever hit the US, and to add to the fun – about 80% of the US was experiencing drought at the time. (If that happened now, Joe Romm would demand that Kool Aid be force fed.)

http://www.ogc.doc.gov/

Most US states set their record high temperatures prior to 1940.

Most states had their hottest year prior to 1940.

Obviously the weather was much safer, cooler and wetter when CO2 was below 350 ppm. We need to massively raise taxes to make the climate safe again.

Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. The drought of 1999 covered a smaller area than the 1988 drought, when the Mississippi almost dried up. And 1988 was a temporary inconvenience as compared with repeated droughts during the 1930s “Dust Bowl” that caused an exodus from the prairies, as chronicled in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.

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