Words

This world has lost its glory . . .

Every year the Merriam-Webster Dictionary adds words to the dictionary. In 2022 they supplemented the dictionary with 370 new words. Lexicographers add specific words to the dictionary when they determine it’s:

• a word that's used by a lot of people;

• used by those people in largely the same fashion; and,

• likely to stay in the lexicon for a long time.

The most used English words, in order, are, the, of, and, a, and to. In teenage talk, it might just include “like” as in “That’s like awesome dude.” The five most used adjectives are good, new, first, last, and long. In climate activist talk it may well be “unprecedented”. Dictionary.com defines unprecedented as, “without previous instance; never before known or experienced; unexampled or unparalleled: an unprecedented event”.

When it comes to climate activism, from politicians to scientists to the media describing all critical or serious weather it is claimed to be “unprecedented”. The landfall of recent Hurricane Idalia was said, naturally, to be unmatched, yet a hurricane, before they started naming them hit in almost the exact same area in September of 1896. If one goes to the Wikipedia page entitled, List of Florida Hurricanes, and then scrolls down to the subtitle Major Hurricanes, the eighth on the list made landfall at the same place and it was stronger at 960 mbar (a measure of pressure - metric bar or MB) versus Idalia’s 949 MB.

As cited in the linked story here, Ryan Maue the chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) also shared a graphic with additional details, noting, “1896 Cedar Keys hurricane also made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend with 125 mph winds. Climate context: this is a 0 mph landfall maximum wind increase from 1896-2023 or 0 mph/century for the worst 2 storms.”

In other words, far from unprecedented.

While Florida has had hurricanes making landfall with wind speeds over 130 miles per hour and mbar readings in excess of 900 MB on several occasions the media interviewed a man who said that in his “almost 70 years” he had never seen anything like it – thus obviously Idalia had to be “unprecedented”.

It is said the earth has been in existence for billions of years, yet these elitist weather people can arouse public fear with the word “unprecedented” and many, without much thought or any attempt at self-discovery, simply believe it.

Climate change for progressives works on what I call the three "S”s, Statistics (albeit false and manipulated), Science (albeit pseudo), and a fake sense of Sympathy for victims. The more people involved in a severe weather event, the more votes they think they can secure. As Biden says in this linked clip, “I don't think anybody can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore. Just look around.” The weather has been weaponized and it continues.

What is never unprecedented is their constant elevation of fear and making a mockery of honest science all for the purpose of political profit.