Was there global warming in the 1880s? Because 25 hurricanes hit the USA in that decade

A total of 293 Atlantic tropical cyclones have produced hurricane-force winds in every state along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, as well as Pennsylvania. Florida more than any other hurricane.

CNN and Jeffrey Sachs are blaming the three hurricanes that hit the USA this year on climate change. The 1880s were the most active hurricane decade for the United States, with a total of 25 hurricanes affecting the nation. Does this mean that 1880s had the most climate change hurricanes?

The federal government’s National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration reported earlier this week that the three powerful Atlantic hurricanes of 2017 — Harvey, Irma and Maria — cost Americans $265 billion, and massive Western forest fires another $18 billion.

Hurricanes have been steadily increasing in damage costs as there are more buildings and population to damage.

Nextbigfuture supports cost-effective action on global warming, ocean acidification and climate change

Nextbigfuture recognizes that there has been warming. Nextbigfuture does not deny climate change. Nextbigfuture believes ineffective and insanely costly plans should not be promoted. Currently the most affordable and effective plans are ignored.

I grew up in Saskatchewan, Canada which during the 1970s would have 6-foot snow drifts. In more recent years snow drifts were about 1 foot in the same location. The price of agricultural land in Southern Saskatchewan has doubled because warming has increased the growing season by a few weeks. This enables the land to grow corn which is a more valuable crop than wheat.

There are plans that would be effective and affordable

Analysis shows the Ocean Afforestation can produce 12 billion tons per year of biomethane while storing 19 billion tons of CO2 per year directly from biogas production, plus up to 34 billion tons per year from carbon capture of the biomethane combustion exhaust. These rates are based on macro-algae (kelp, seaweed) forests covering 9% of the world’s ocean surface, which could produce sufficient biomethane to replace all of today’s needs in fossil fuel energy, while removing 53 billion tons of CO2 per year from the atmosphere, restoring pre-industrial levels.

This amount of biomass could also increase sustainable fish production to potentially provide 200 kg/yr/person for 10 billion people. Additional benefits are reduction in ocean acidification and increased ocean primary productivity and biodiversity.

There should be more aggressive programs to develop factory mass produced modular molten salt nuclear reactors.

Nextbigfuture has long lists of effective actions and many them generate other benefits like restoring the levels of fish.

There are a hundred ranked solutions at the Drawdown.org website.

More perspective on US hurricanes

The least active decade was the 1970s, with a total of only 12 hurricanes affecting the American coastline. A total of 33 seasons on record passed without an Atlantic hurricane affecting the country—the most recent of which was the 2015 season. Seven Atlantic hurricanes affected the country in the 1886 season, which was the year with the most United States hurricanes.

The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar. It was one of only three hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale; the others were Hurricane Camille in 1969 and Hurricane Andrew in 1992, which had a landfalling pressure of 900 mbar and 922 mbar, respectively. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was the third most intense hurricane to strike the country with a pressure of 920 mbar, though its winds were not as strong as Andrew.

The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 was the deadliest hurricane in the history of the United States, killing at least 8,000 people. The 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane caused at least 2,500 casualties, and in 2005, Hurricane Katrina killed about 1,500 people. In the 1893 season, two hurricanes each caused over 1,000 deaths.

Accounting for inflation, nine Atlantic hurricanes caused a damage total of over $10 billion (2006 USD), including three from the 2005 season. The costliest was Hurricane Harvey, with damage amounting to $198.6 billion. Of the 31 costliest United States hurricanes, 11 were after the year 2000.

A 2010 study published in Natural Hazards Review, a journal of the American Society of Civil Engineers, “Normalized Hurricane Damage in the United State: 1900-2005” (PDF), analyzed storm-related property damage figures from 1900 through 2005 adjusted (“normalized”) for inflation, wealth and population factors over time. The study found that:
1) Using normalized figures, hurricane-related damages steadily increased from 1900 to 2005;
2) Based on the adjusted data, Hurricane Katrina is the third-most destructive storm in U.S. history. The second-ranking storm in terms of property damage is the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, with losses between $140–157 billion in 2005 dollars;
3) While 1996–2005 was the second-most costly period for storm-related damages, the preceding periods of 1976–1985 and 1986–1995 were “anomalously benign,” accounting for only 10% of all storm damage reported since 1900;

5 thoughts on “Was there global warming in the 1880s? Because 25 hurricanes hit the USA in that decade”

  1. About 400,000 years ago, along the US eastern seaboard, there was a “super storm”. It caused many of the flora and fauna in the region to expire. About two weeks later, after the bones of the deceased had dis-articulated, another “super storm” of about the same strength hit the same region. The result was that the dis-articulated bones of the remains are aligned in a unique way in the area surrounding Camden South Carolina. The site is called Camelot, because a lot of camel bones were found there. What was not found were the remains of 400K year old coal fired power plant or SUVs. Gives pause for thought on the whole glowbull warming thing …

  2. About 400000 years ago along the US eastern seaboard there was a super storm””. It caused many of the flora and fauna in the region to expire. About two weeks later”” after the bones of the deceased had dis-articulated”” another “”””super storm”””” of about the same strength hit the same region. The result was that the dis-articulated bones of the remains are aligned in a unique way in the area surrounding Camden South Carolina. The site is called Camelot”””” because a lot of camel bones were found there. What was not found were the remains of 400K year old coal fired power plant or SUVs. Gives pause for thought on the whole glowbull warming thing …”””

  3. About 400,000 years ago, along the US eastern seaboard, there was a “super storm”. It caused many of the flora and fauna in the region to expire. About two weeks later, after the bones of the deceased had dis-articulated, another “super storm” of about the same strength hit the same region. The result was that the dis-articulated bones of the remains are aligned in a unique way in the area surrounding Camden South Carolina. The site is called Camelot, because a lot of camel bones were found there. What was not found were the remains of 400K year old coal fired power plant or SUVs. Gives pause for thought on the whole glowbull warming thing …

  4. About 400000 years ago along the US eastern seaboard there was a super storm””. It caused many of the flora and fauna in the region to expire. About two weeks later”” after the bones of the deceased had dis-articulated”” another “”””super storm”””” of about the same strength hit the same region. The result was that the dis-articulated bones of the remains are aligned in a unique way in the area surrounding Camden South Carolina. The site is called Camelot”””” because a lot of camel bones were found there. What was not found were the remains of 400K year old coal fired power plant or SUVs. Gives pause for thought on the whole glowbull warming thing …”””

  5. About 400,000 years ago, along the US eastern seaboard, there was a “super storm”. It caused many of the flora and fauna in the region to expire. About two weeks later, after the bones of the deceased had dis-articulated, another “super storm” of about the same strength hit the same region. The result was that the dis-articulated bones of the remains are aligned in a unique way in the area surrounding Camden South Carolina. The site is called Camelot, because a lot of camel bones were found there. What was not found were the remains of 400K year old coal fired power plant or SUVs. Gives pause for thought on the whole glowbull warming thing …

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