This Day in History: A Hurricane hits Martinique on this day in 1776 sinking 100 French and Dutch ships and killing 600 people. A greater hurricane hit the area 4 years later in 1780. The Great Hurricane of 1780 would go on to kill 22,000 people. It was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record.
It is claimed that there are more hurricanes now due to climate change, but one study "Atlantic hurricane activity during the last millennium" claims that hurricane activity was more intense during the Little Ice Age (1300-1850). “The highest average levels of activity occurred during the late 16th and early 17th Centuries, a trend corroborated by a coupled ocean-atmosphere climate model simulation of annual basin-wide tropical cyclone counts, which indicates heightened activity during the LIA (Little Ice Age). Further support for enhanced activity during the LIA comes from a record of hurricane deposits in a coastal karst basin in the Bahamas, which suggests heightened activity occurred between 1350 and 1650. This important result suggests that average hurricane activity during the industrial period has not exceeded its longer-term natural variability during the last millennium.”
"According to the National Hurricane Center, storms are no more intense or frequent worldwide than they have been since 1850. Temperatures were high in the 1920s and 1930s when there was much less CO2 in the atmosphere. Constant 24-7 media coverage of every significant storm worldwide just makes it seem that way. Insist on the facts, not just what some individuals or reporters say to support their cause." (Paul Bedard)
"In my opinion, the idea that we human beings are creating bigger hurricanes is wildly implausible. The sun-earth system of physical forces and the earth’s own system of forces have to overwhelm anything we might be doing. This thinking is based on the size and strength of those earthly forces that we have always been exposed to on the planet going back 1000s of years: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, shifts in solar activity, huge ice ages, asteroids hitting us, wobbling in our orbit, changes in the earth’s tilt, changes in the positions of the continents and seas, and changes in Earth’s molten core."~Michael S. Rozeff
"A new paper published in Nature Communications...finds lack of technology in the past allowed us to miss many, many, tropical storms and hurricanes, giving the false impression that there were fewer storms in the past compared to today. Because they weren’t seen, they weren’t recorded."~Anthony Watts
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