The below is a list of past severe weather events and natural disasters – prior to the consistent 350+ppm CO2 levels attained in the 1990’s. In addition, scattered throughout the list are interesting “expert” climate predictions and observations. Based on the review of severe weather history below, extreme climate change has been happening a very long time. Most of these events (approximately 1,600) took place years before the claims of man-made global warming. © Copyright 2009 – 2016 | C3 Headlines (Updated: 1/02/2016)
Many items in list are a direct result of Steve Goddard’s effort at Real Science and Popular Technology’s site. Also, James Marusek has published a huge list of historical weather incidents, many of which are included below. (see Modern & historical temperature charts.)
1801: Thomas Jefferson Notes Dramatic Climate Change In Virginia
1803: Farmers’ Crops Suffer From Long Sidney Drought
1804: Hurricane Brings “extreme violence” To Charleston, South Carolina
1804: “A change in our climate is taking place very surely.” – Thomas Jefferson
1806: Report On The Significant Climate Change of Great Britain – More Humidity, Clouds & Cold
1809: Thomas Jefferson Reveals That Snow Is (Nearly) A Thing Of The Past
1811: The Large New Madrid Quake Was Accompanied By Brilliant Auroras In The South
1811: Severe Drought Empties Sydney’s Water Tanks
1811: Australian Drought Pushes Corn To Extinction
1812: Massive Hurricane Ravaged New Orleans
1814: Long Drought In Australia Drives Wheat Prices Up – Affecting The Poor
1815: New England Struck By Major Hurricane
1816: 519 Manhattans Worth Of Glacier Ice Broke Away From Greenland
1816: ‘Year Without A Summer’ – Global Temps Sink and Famine Results
1818: Danes Discover that when it is severe winter in Europe, it is mild in Greenland
1824: 30,000 Perish From Flood In Russia
1825: Forest Fire Destroys One-Fifth Of New Brunswick’s Forests
1829: NSW, Australia: A 3-Year Drought – “little or no rain fell”
1830: “Devastating” Hurricane Strikes Tennessee
1832: Dramatic Climate Change In Italy
1833: “Awful and Destructive” Hurricane Hits Barbados
1833: Typhoon Strikes India – Causes “damage beyond conception”
1835: New South Wales, Australia Drought Could Become Calamitous
1836: New York Destroyed By A Ferocious Fire
1837: Maldive Islands Disappearing Under The Sea – “Wasting Away”
1837: Earthquake & Hurricane Devastate Puerto Rico
1838 : Calamitous Drought In New South Wales
1839 : Severe Drought In Australia
1839 : Severe Floods Hit Scotland At 30 Year Intervals
1839: “A terrible hurricane swept over the whole of the West of England”
1840: Tornado Kills Over 300 People In Mississippi
1841: Great Floods At Middlesex, England – Many Lives Lost
1841: Queensland, Australia Has Major Flood
1841: “Tremendous” Tornado and Hurricane Strikes Washington, D.C.
1841: Severe Thunderstorms, Tornadoes & Hailstorms Across France During Spring Months
1841: A Sirocco Sweeps Across Italy – Blast Furnace Heat Makes Life Miserable
1841: November Floods In France Cause Immense Damage
1841: Philadelphia Has 10-Inch Snowstorm In November
1842: France Hammered By Continuous Cold and Snow of Winter – Great Suffering
1842: Waterspouts & Floods Wreak Havoc Across Limerick, Ireland
1842: Six Inch Rainstorm In 2.5 Hours Submerges Philadelphia, PA
1842: Violent Thunderstorms Pound Mid-Atlantic States Throughout June
1842: Northern France Suffers From Severe Drought During Summer
1842: Paris, France Has Hottest Temperatures Since Beginning of Century
1842: Coldest November Ever Recorded In Many Parts of U.S.
1843: Major Mid-March Snowstorm Buries East U.S. – Up To 2-Feet of Snow
1843: Multiple Summer Hailstorms Cause Much Harm In England
1843: Northeast U.S. Has June “Killer” Frost – Plant and Crop Damage Extensive
1843: Severe Drought In Area of Hobart, Tasmania
1843: Immense Storm In Pennsylvania & Delaware Washes Away 50 Bridges
1844: Hail As Large As 11 Pounds Bombard France
1844: Abnormal Long & Snowy Winter In Europe Finally Ends In Late March 1845
1844: Port Phillip In Australia Experiences Its Greatest Flood
1845: Temperature In Central Australia Hits 135F In Shade
1845: Whole Provinces Submerged In China From Flooding
1845: Entire Potato Crop of Ireland Ruined By Severe Blight
1846: Aborigines blame ‘white-man’ for climate change in Australia
1846: Terrible Winter Across N. America – Mississippi, Ohio & Wabash Rivers Frozen
1846: Streams & Wells Go Dry In Great Iowa Drought
1846: Scarcity of Food Result of Australian Drought
1846: Huge Floods Inundate Central France
1846: Great Rainstorm & Hail Pound Many Areas of England and Ireland
1846: Other Countries Come To Aid of Belgium During Famine
1847: Hurricane Blasts Havana and Key West, Florida
1847: Bitter Cold & Snow Cause Miserable Winter In France, Spain & Switzerland
1847: Severe Drought In Holland Dried Up Most Of The Wells
1847: Heat & Drought Cause Famine and Food Riots In France
1847: New South Wales, Australia Again Hit With Bad Drought
1847: Australia’s Aborigines Say White Man Has Changed The Climate
1847: Winter Cold Brings -34F Temperatures To Dartmouth College Campus
1848: Niagara Falls Goes Dry – Severe Weather Conditions Stop Water Flow
1849: Sweden, Norway and Russia Have Extreme Winter Cold – Quicksilver Freezes!
1849: France Heat Wave Sizzles – 106 Degrees In Orange, France
1849: Flood In New Orleans Had Deeper Water Than Katrina
1849: “Dreadful Hurricane On The East Coast Of Scotland”
1850: Sacramento Completely Destroyed By Flood
1850: Calamitous Flood Overwhelms Belgium
1850: San Francisco Nearly Destroyed By Fire
1850: Capt. McClure Saw No Ice In The Beaufort Sea In August
1851: Ireland Struck By Great and Destructive Floods
1851: Two year Drought Ends In New South Wales, Australia
1851: Heat Wave & Brush Fires Brings “Day of Horrors” To Victoria, Australia
1851: Famine & Emigration Causes Ireland’s Population To Fall By 20%
1852: 100 Perish When Reservoir Bursts From Excessive Rainfall
1852: Extreme July Heat Wave Strikes Paris Over 8 Days
1852: Severe Flooding In Parts of Switzerland, France, Belgium, Germany
1853: Europe & U.S. Blasted By Severe Winter Starting In December Through March
1853: Northwest Passage – Open Water Found In The Arctic Basin – In May
1853: Dust Storm & Hot Wind Howl Across Melbourne, Australia
1854: “The Great Drought In The United States”
1856: Whole Villages In France Swept Away By Great Floods
1856: A Summer Resort Island In Louisiana Is Completely Submerged By Terrific Storm – 170 Die
1856: Arctic Explorer Discovers “vast open iceless Polar Sea”
1857: Floods Cause Immense Destruction In NSW
1857: Massive Snowstorm Dumps 24 Inches On North Carolina, Baltimore and Washington D.C.
1857: Three Bad Heat Waves Strike France From June to August
1857: Great Storm Off Coast of Scotland – 42 Fishermen Lost
1858: A Severe Drought and Extreme Heat Saturate Portions of Europe & Algeria
1858: Adelaide, Australia Suffers In Fourth Year of Severe Drought
1858: 5-Foot Floods Swamp Areas of Tasmania
1858: Southern Italy Struck By Unusual November Snowstorm
1859: California Stuck By Intense Heat Wave, 133 Degrees In San Bernardino
1860: A Tornado Destroys Towns In Iowa And Illinois
1860: India’s Farmers Unable To Plant Crops Due To Drought
1861: England Has Frigid Christmas, -21.7°C
1861: Montreal Submerged By River Flood From Melting Ice
1861: Almost 200 Wrecked Ships From Major Storms On British Coasts
1862: England Hit By Huge Hailstorm – 6 to 7 Feet Deep In Some Areas
1862: The Great Flood – West Coast battered for 45 days with extreme storms
1863: River Flood Drowns Melbourne, Australia – 40 Feet Above Normal Level
1863: Major Drought Strikes Argentina – Dust Storms Wreak Havoc
1863: U.S. Winter Brings Incredible Cold & Snow – Mississippi River Freezes Over
1864: Record Floods In Queensland, Australia
1864: Great Cyclone Smashes Calcutta – 70,000 Perish
1864: Devastating Hurricane Strikes Portugal
1864: Floods, Drought & Famine Lead To Mass Misery In Hungary
1865: Frigid Winter In Paris Freezes Seine River
1866: France & Britain Ravaged by Severe Regional Floods
1866: 1,500,000 People Perish From Famine & Drought In India
1866: Hurricane In Bahamas Smashes 600 Buildings, 60 Persons Dead
1867: Cyclone & Tidal Wave Sweep Away 30,000 Homes In Calcutta
1867: St. Thomas Island Survives Dreadful Hurricane, 1,000 Lives Lost
1868: Massive Earthquake Hits Peru
1868: Many Lives Lost In Baltimore, MD Flood
1868: Most Destructive Tornado In Tennessee Takes Lives
1868: Huge Earthquakes, Volcanic Eruptions And Tsunamis Hit Hawaii
1869: A Tornado Destroys Georgetown, Colorado
1869: Fearful Floods In England – Worst In Leeds History
1869: Arctic Summers Believed To Be “almost free of ice”
1869: Dublin and Cork Ireland Suffered From Great Floods
1870: Torrential Rain Dumps 24 Inches Over 4 Days In Brisbane
1870: The Great Flood In New South Wales, Australia
1871: New York Times Reports On Worrisome “Climate Change”
1871: 3.8 Million Wisconsin Acres Burn & Hundreds Perish In America’s Largest Forest Fire
1871: 100,000 Starving People In Chicago After Heat, Drought And Fire
1872: 140 Degrees Reported During Australia Heat Wave
1874: Tuscumbia, Alabama Destroyed By A Tornado
1875: Ahmedabad, India – Historically High Flooding
1875: Arctic Warming, Melting Ice Causing East Coast Rains, Floods & Crop Failures
1875 : Fire, Heat And Drought In Australia – 115F In Shade
1875: England suffers from big floods
1876: Three Storms In Succession Flood 3,000 Square Miles Of India – Kill 215,000 People
1876: Severe Drought In Turkey – 200,000 Lives Lost
1877: Serious Drought In Australia In Its Second Year
1878: Three Year Massive Drought & Famine Ends In India
1878: Southern Morocco Droughts Turns Populace Into “Living Skeletons”
1878: Officially announced that 7,000,000 persons have died of “famine in China.”
1878: Prolonged Drought In South Africa Threatens Disastrous Famine
1878: Eleven Days of Extreme Hot Temperatures Torch America’s Midwest
1878: Malaria Outbreak In Brooklyn, NY
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: Southern England Suffers Tornado, Followed By Snow
1878: Ceylon Hit By Multiple Floods Causing Great Property Damage
1878: Indian Ocean Cyclone Wipes Bourbon Island Clean
1878: Hundreds Lost At Sea During Bay of Biscay, Spain Hurricane
1878: Wisconsin Tornado Hits Multiple Rural Towns, 30 People Killed
1878: Tornado In Connecticut Kills 30
1878: France Suffers From Large Floods
1878: Immense Floods Overwhelm Sacramento, California Region
1878: Hurricane & Two Waterspouts Bash Canton, China
1878: Hailstorm In Austria Wrecks Crops, Hailstones Unusually Large
1878: Severe Thunderstorms & Hailstorms Thrash Switzerland – Fires and Floods Result
1879: Half A Million Dead In Brazil From Drought, Starvation And Pestilence
1879: New Years – Great Floods In England And Scotland
1879: Severe Drought Affects Texas, South Carolina & Georgia
1879: 165 MPH Winds Pummel North Carolina
1879: Explorer Discovers That Alaskan Glacier Shrunk By Some 30 Miles In Less Than 100 Years
1879: Severe Drought In West Texas
1879: Account – Destructive Earthquakes Hit Japan Every Ten Years
1880: Raging Forest Fires In Pennsylvania & New Jersey
1880: Massive Snow Storm With 100MPH Gusts Dumps 6′ of Snow On Seattle
1880: Record Setting Heat Wave In Adelaide, Australia
1881: “A Great Many People” Suffering From Malaria In New York
1881: NY Times Predicts Extinction of Walrus, Seal, Bison, Elk, Fish, Reindeer
1881: Spain Records 122 Degree Temperature During Heat Wave
1881: Global Warming Brings Heat Waves, Hurricanes, Earthquakes And Yellow Fever
1882: Hailstorm In Midwest Wreaks Havoc – Hail 3.5 Feet Deep In Some Spots
1882: Disastrous Hurricane Strikes NW Australia
1883: Huge Earthquake Hits Italy
1884: 500 Killed By A Southern Tornado – 5,000 Houses Destroyed
1884 : Humans Blamed For Glacial Retreat In The Alps
1884: Terrible Earthquake Hits England
1884: Explorers Determine That Polar Sea Is Free of Ice At Times
1884: Levees Fail Due To Mississippi River Flood
1885: “Water Famine In Jerusalem.”
1885: U.S. Congress Considers Climate Engineering Legislation
1885: Extreme Heat Wave In The UK – Children Dying By The Hundreds
1886: Middle of Spain Devastated By Hurricane
1886: Charleston, SC Destroyed By A Huge Earthquake
1886: Huge Earthquake Hits Greece
1886: 12 Inches of Rainfall & Flood Submerge Georgia Region Over 3 Days
1886: Texas Town Destroyed By Hurricane
1886: Seven Hurricanes Pummel U.S.
1886: England & Ireland Swept By Great Hurricane
1887: Streets In Brisbane, Australia Under 15-Feet of Flood Water
1887: Storm Surge of 25 Feet Submerges Burketown
1887: Huge Earthquake Hits France And Italy
1887: China’s Terrible Flood Leaves Millions Homeless & Starving
1887: 700 Perish From Australian Hurricane
1887: Prolonged Drought In England And Scotland Disastrous To Crops
1887: Terrible Hurricane Strikes Great Britain
1888: Severe Blizzards Rips East Coast – New York City Cut Off From Rest of World
1888 Study: “Is Climate Changing” – Strongly Marked, Periodic Shifts In The Climate
1888: “Complete Change Of Climate” Makes Adobe Useless As A Nebraskan Building Material
1888: Colorado Heat Wave Hits 118 Degrees
1888: Floods Kill Hundreds Of Thousands Of People In China
1888: Australian Drought Killed Almost All Of The Sheep
1888: ‘Schoolhouse Blizzard’ Strikes U.S. Great Plains With Brutal Cold & Snow
1888: Severe Weather Extremes Plague The World
1889: US Hurricane Strikes Peaked In The 1880s
1889: “Disastrous Floods In China”
1890: U.S. Snowstorms – Passengers On Eight Trains Dying From Cold & Hunger
1890: NSW, Australia Suffers From Big Floods
1890: 200 Russians Freeze To Death From Intense Cold
1890: New York Times Worried About Global Warming
1890: Rapid Glacial Retreat In Alaska
1890: Massive Tornado Levels Louisville, Kentucky
1890: “Great Heat In America Hundreds of Deaths From Sunstroke”
1890: “The European Crops. Ruined By Rain And Cold Weather”
1890: Forest Fire In New Mexico & Colorado A “Cyclone” of Devastation
1890: Hurricane Slams Australia
1891 Study: 1°C Climate Changes Happen Regularly Scientists Discover
1891: “Intense Heat In New York”
1891: Joplin, Missouri Stuck By Terrible Tornado
1891: Four Hundred Thousand Left Homeless By Japanese Quake
1891: “Intense Cold In England. Sheep Roasted On The Frozen Thames.“
1891: “A Severe Winter, Streets of Naples, Italy Impassable”
1891: “The Cold In Holland And Belgium. Antwerp Harbour Icebound”
1892: Severe Drought In Australia – 115 Degree Heat Wave
1892: Great Floods In China Kills 50,000 – More To Die From Starvation
1892: Huge Icebergs Seen As Far South As New York
1892: Severe Cold In England & America – 50 Frozen To Death
1892: Rapid Glacial Retreat In The Alps
1892: Rapid Retreat Of Rocky Mountain Glaciers Due To “Climatic” Change
1892: Alaskan Glacier Experiences Massive Shrinkage – 77 Billion Cubic Feet of Ice Each Year Lost
1892: Heat Wave In Europe Forces School Closures
1892: Disastrous Drought In Mexico
1892: “Heat in America – Deaths From Sunstroke; Work Suspended”
1892: Indian Ocean Hurricane Kills Thousands
1892: Devastating Tornado Strikes Chicago Area
1892: Destructive Kansas Tornado Causes Enormous Damage
1892: Terrible Tornado Kills Many In Illinois And Missouri
1892: Mississippi & Missouri Rivers cause Disastrous Floods
1892: Washington, Arkansas Destroyed By A Tornado
1892: Japanese Typhoon Takes 300 Lives – 42,000 Homes Destroyed
1893: It’s 1,800 Years Of “Low CO2” Floods And Storms
1893: Severe Heat Wave & Drought In Queensland Australia
1893: Snow Blizzard & Tidal Wave Blast Chicago On Same Day
1893: Heat Wave And Drought In Europe; Deaths by Sunstroke
1893: “Malaria Everywhere” In Wisconsin
1893: “Intense Cold In Sydney. All Previous Records Broken.”
1893: Biggest Flood Ever In Queensland, Australia
1893: Sea Islands Hurricane Leaves 1,000+ Dead In Its Wake
All of these events took place before i started to drive my old SAAB .. Strange, ay!?
