You csn see the trend line plainly is down to very chilly land.
Posted on 11/28/2018 10:19:08 PM PST by Tilting
It is incredibly important to understand that as the weather turns bitterly cold in the north, people will begin to migrate south. This not merely cause the Greeks to become the Sea Peoples, but during the Year without a Summer in 1816 even in the States when six inches of snow fell in June and every month of the year had a hard frost, people began to migrate. The temperatures had dropped to as low as 40 degrees in July and August in New York City during 1816. People also called it ‘Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death’ and the ‘Poverty Year.’ This is what I keep pointing out that cold is what kills society and creates poverty – not warming.
The Year without a Summer sent people fleeing from New England states in search of warmer weather and fertile soils both south and west. It was the weather that began to cause migration in the United States outside of the 13 original states. Thousands of New England families gave up their farms, packed their belongings into wagons and joined the throngs traipsing over rivers and mountains to Pennsylvania and the Ohio River Valley, which includes Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky.
Indeed, between 1810 and 1820, Maine lost as many as 15,000 people. Sixty Vermont towns lost population during that decade as well. The population of 60 more Vermont towns stayed the same while the U.S. population grew 32%. When we examine Massachusetts, we can see that this state gained only 50,000 people from 1810-20, while Ohio gained five times as many. The Massachusetts Legislature tried to hold on to its citizens by passing a homestead act that gave settlers 100 acres of land for $5.
Even during the American Revolution, when John Adams set out to travel to Philadelphia, it was bitterly cold and there was a foot or more of snow covered the landscape which had blanketed Massachusetts from one end of the province to the other. Beneath the snow, after weeks of severe cold, the ground was frozen solid to a depth of two feet. Packed ice in the road made the journey very hazardous. In a letter to his wife, John Adams wrote:
“Indeed I feel not a little out of Humour, from Indisposition of Body. You know, I cannot pass a Spring, or fall, without an ill Turn — and I have had one these four or five Weeks — a Cold, as usual. Warm Weather, and a little Exercise, with a little Medicine, I suppose will cure me as usual. … Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make a good Use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it.”
On September 8th, 1816, Jefferson described the weather during the Year without a Summer in a letter to Albert Gallitan:
We have had the most extraordinary year of drought and cold ever known in the history of America. In June, instead of 3¾ inches, our average of rain for that month, we had only 1/3 of an inch; in August, instead of 9 1/6 inches our average, we had only 8/10 of an inch; and it still continues. The summer too has been as cold as a moderate winter. In every state North of this there has been frost in every month of the year; in this state we had none in June and July but those of August killed much corn over the mountains. The crop of corn through the Atlantic states will probably be less than 1/3 of an ordinary one, that of tobacco still less, and of mean quality.
It is Global Cooling – not Global Warming, that we should fear the most. While 1816 was the year we had a major volanic eruption, it also came during the Little Ice Age with Solar Minimum.
Yup, her models are far more accurate at predicting how things are going to go.
My momey is on her outcome and unfortunately, that sucks.
Not really.
The story of Earth's climate changes is preserved in the geologic record, which (real) climatologists have been studying for decades. That record shows a regular pattern of cooling and heating that can be dated to historical epochs.
A close perusal of that pattern reveals that our planet is now entering a solar minimum, where global temperatures drop dramatically.
GloBull Whining is what we should be worried about.
Solve it by feeding Al Gore to polar bears live on YouTube.
Didn’t they try this, back in the 70s?
Good article.
There’s a reason that agriculture and civilization began shortly AFTER the last major glaciation!
Yes, the cause was supposed to be smog resulting from industrialization. Man is bad, cancer on the earth...
They are studying the effects of sudden acceleration by SUVs causing the Earth to wobble in its orbit which in turn perturbs the sun causing it to also wobble in its orbit. The best solution to solve the cooling problem they believe, is to send them more money to solve this terrible dilemma.
Why not just ban SUVs? Because the scientists’ wives would feel unsafe and they need the room, so quit arguing and sent them at least 20% of your net worth. They will add your name to a commemorative plaque ...
There’s a reason that agriculture and civilization began shortly AFTER the last major glaciation!
Doesn’t bother me.- summers will be more comfortable here in Texas.
Nothing grows in the cold vs trees & crops grows faster in the warmth. But the LEFT will have us all believe that’s it’s OK to be cold as the warming produces all the evil CO2 greenhouse gas which will kill the planet.
Day before yesterday the high was 30 and the day after tomorrow it’s going to be 66.
That’s how our little climate in the Ozarks changes all the time. We manage. Little rough on the old arthritic knees though.
Fear is always about the future whether it be 2 milliseconds or 20 years.
If you are fearful, make a plan to address it. That is the real value of fear.
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