Read here and here. So far, 2011 has produced a number of disastrous events including: extreme cold and snow, earthquakes, tsunamis, radiation releases, floods, fires, rainstorms and tornadoes. Recently, this has led the IPCC's big-guns, the ones who provided us with Climategate and put climate science into such deep disrepute, to opine that human CO2 and global warming are to blame for these severe weather events and other 2011 calamities.

In the realm of nature and Earth's climate though, a lot of really bad stuff happens and humans are not the cause of it. Take 1878/1879 for example - below are samples of what the newspapers and etc. reported those years. Be thankful it's not the 1878/1879 period, or many other really bad years.

1878: Southern England Suffers Rare Tornado, Followed By Snow

1878: Winter In England Is 5.4 Degrees Colder Than Average

1878: Devastating Hurricane Strikes Tahiti

1878: Terrible Australian Drought Followed By Disastrous Floods

1878: Ceylon Hit By Multiple Floods Causing Great Property Damage

1878: Indian Ocean Cyclone Wipes Bourbon Island Clean

1878: Immense Floods Overwhelm Sacramento, California Region

1878: Great Floods In England's Thames Valley

1878: Hundreds Lost At Sea During Bay of Biscay, Spain Hurricane

1878: Wisconsin Tornado Hits Multiple Rural Towns, 30 People Killed

1878: France Experiences Large Floods

1878: Three Year Massive Drought & Famine Ends In India

1878: Officially announced that 7,000,000 persons have died of “famine in China.”

1878: Brooklyn, NY Has Malaria Outbreak



1878: Hurricane & Two Waterspouts Bash Canton, China

1878: Eleven Days of Extreme Hot Temperatures Torch America's Midwest

1878: Southern Morocco Droughts Turns Populace Into "Living Skeletons"

1878: Hailstorm In Austria Wrecks Crops, Hailstones Unusually Large

1878: Severe Thunderstorms & Hailstorms Thrash Switzerland - Fires and Floods Result

1878: Prolonged Drought In South Africa Threatens Disastrous Famine



1878: Terrible Gale Strikes England's Coast, 400 Out of 500 Fishing Boats Lost



1879: 70 Million Chinese People Starving From “2 centuries of climatic change almost without a parallel”

1879: Account – Destructive Earthquakes Hit Japan Every Ten Years

1879: 165 MPH Winds Pummel North Carolina

1879: Half A Million Dead In Brazil From Drought, Starvation And Pestilence

Michael Mann, Gavin Schmidt and Kevin Trenberth are individuals who will use any disaterous event, regardless of the science and empirical evidence, to bolster the fortunes of their failed AGW hypothesis. Unfortunately for these IPCC "scientists", history is replete with years of disasterous events prior to large human CO2 emissions. And every year, more and more of the global public recognizes that the truth is different than what Mann, Schmidt and Trenberth claim.

Additional severe-weather postings.

Corrections made: Year should have been 1878 for most events, instead of 1879. Thanks to reader Toby for that catch.