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AP's Seth Borenstein continues to fan the flames of the climate alarmism scam ("UN Climate talks start in year of disasters..." PJ 11 7 26) in preparation for the latest UN climate talks (COP31) in Turkey in November.
Natural disasters did not begin when Seth Borenstein began to report them. They have not been increasing in magnitude. In fact, there are fewer deaths related to so-called natural disasters in the 21st century than in the past.
Throughout recorded history, massive geographical and meteorological events have caused devastating losses. Many of history’s most lethal natural events occurred before the twentieth century.
The Galveston, Texas hurricane on September 2, 1900 killed 6,000 to 12,000 people. The Johnstown, Pa flood on May 31, 1889, claimed 2,209 - 3188 lives. The Labor Day hurricane in the Florida Keys September 2, 1935 remains the most intense hurricane in United States history with maximum sustained winds estimated at 185 mph killing 485 people. The 1887 Yellow River Flood, inundated roughly 50,000 square miles, killing from 900,000 to 2 million people. On November 25, 1839, a massive tropical cyclone struck the city of Coringa on India’s east coast. A 40-foot storm surge killed 300,000 people instantly. In 1737 the Calcutta Cyclone in the Ganges River Delta, claimed 300,000 lives.
Justification for the attack on western civilization and mankind in general, is based on the assertion that man has caused the climate to change due to carbon dioxide production. De-industrialization, population control, destructive energy policies - are all based on the false CO2 narrative. CO2 is still a mere trace gas at .04% of the earth's atmosphere.
Global warming and cooling cycles are caused by the sun via the Milankovitch cycles.
Three distinct solar system cycles interact to fluctuate the amount of sunlight hitting the Earth:
– Eccentricity (Shape of the Orbit): Earth’s orbit shifts from nearly circular to mildly oval over a 100,000-year cycle. This changes the distance between Earth and the Sun, modulating the intensity of the seasons.
– Obliquity (Tilt of the Axis): Earth's axial tilt shifts between 22.1° and 24.5° over a 41,000-year cycle. A smaller tilt means less intense seasons, leading to cooler summers and warmer winters.
– Precession (Wobble of the Axis): Earth’s axis traces a slow circle like a spinning top every 26,000 years. This changes which hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun when the Earth is closest to it, reversing seasonal extremes over time.
The three Milankovitch factors overlap by acting like three different gears in a single clock, turning at vastly different speeds. Their individual cycles (100,000 years, 41,000 years, and 26,000 years) constantly fall in and out of sync with one another.
When these three independent frequencies overlap, they either amplify or cancel out each other’s effects on Earth’s climate through a process called constructive and destructive interference.
An ice age is triggered only when all three cycles align to create the coldest possible summers. When these three conditions hit their lowest solar radiation thresholds simultaneously, northern summer snow never melts. This triggers the rapid ice sheet growth and the albedo feedback loop that plunges the planet into a deep glacial period.
Conversely, when high eccentricity, high tilt (maximum obliquity), and a precession cycle that puts the northern summer closest to the sun (perihelion) all align, northern summers become intensely hot. This completely melts away high-latitude ice sheets, creating the warm, stable interglacial periods like the Holocene--the period humans live in today.
The forces in the solar system may be overlooked by those attending the climate talks in Turkey, but the anti-human, unscientific agenda of the naive participants, aided by doomsday messengers such as Seth Borenstein, may reignite the climate crusade - a costly and wasteful endeavor.
Karen Engstrom is a town of Chautauqua resident.