Apocalypse foretold?
I’m not really that serious but sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
Eerie parallels – several hurricanes appearing one after another? Around 9/11
Here is a trailer to the movie.
Here is Michael Snyder’s response over his article that went viral a few days ago.
Mainstream Media Viciously Attacks Republican Candidate For Congress For Suggesting ‘Category 6’ Should Be Created For Storms Like Irma
By
Michael Snyder
6
September, 2017
Somebody
really needs to be fact checking the so-called “fact checkers”.
A few days ago, I published an
article in
which I stated that “some
have suggested that
we need to add a ‘category 6’ to describe the kind of ‘super
storms’ that are now developing in the Atlantic”. That
article ended up going megaviral on Facebook, and there has been a
tremendous backlash from the mainstream media. By their
reaction, you would have thought that I just committed some very
serious form of blasphemy, but the truth is that scientists have been
talking about adding a “category 6” for more than a decade.
Nothing that I said should have been controversial. In fact, if
this had come from a liberal source the mainstream media would
probably be gushing about how this is more evidence for their “global
warming” narrative. But because I am a Republican and I am
running for Congress, they had to attack me.
Over
the past 24 hours, the Washington Post and dozens of other mainstream
news sources have all run similar articles specifically attacking me
for suggesting that a “category 6” should be created for storms
such as Hurricane Irma. Of course I never said that Hurricane
Irma is a category 6 storm or that such a category was about to be
established. But what I did say is that the establishment of a
“category 6” has been discussed for a long time, and that if you
were to extrapolate the Saffir-Simpson scale, Hurricane Irma would
potentially qualify as
a category 6 storm.
The
source that the Washington Post and other mainstream media sources
are quoting in their hit pieces is Snopes. Of course Snopes is
well known to be a mouthpiece for the left, and just about everything
on their site lines up with the progressive agenda of the radical
left. So it is no surprise that they would attack a
Republican candidate for Congress…
The idea that Irma is a Category 6 storm seems to have originated with a a blog post that implied that a new category, Category 6, would be created for Irma. While the post does not state this directly, its headline reads “Category 6? If Hurricane Irma Becomes The Strongest Hurricane In History, It Could Wipe Entire Cities Off The Map.” That story, written by end-time enthusiast andRepublican candidate for Idaho’s first congressional district Michael Snyder, was first published on his blog “The Economic Collapse” before being aggregated by other clickbait websites.
As
I noted above, the idea that we need to start looking at adding a
“category 6” to the Saffir-Simpson scale is not controversial at
all. It has been discussed very widely for well over a decade,
and if you do a search on Google you will find many, many articles.
The following are just three examples…
ABC
News – May 21, 2006: There
is no official Category 6 for hurricanes, but
scientists say they’re pondering whether there should be as
evidence mounts that hurricanes around the world have sharply
worsened over the past 30 years — and all but a handful of
hurricane experts now agree this worsening bears the fingerprints of
man-made global warming.
In
fact, say scientists, there
have already been hurricanes strong enough to qualify as Category 6s.
They’d define those as having sustained winds over 175 or 180 mph.
A couple told me they’d measured close to 200 mph on a few
occasions.
Weather.com
– July 28, 2016: The
results showed that three vulnerable areas of the world are at risk
for a “high-end” Category 5 tropical cyclone by the end of the
21st century due to the Earth’s changing climate: Tampa, Florida;
Cairns, Australia; and the Persian Gulf.
These
potential Category
6 hurricanes
may be up to 14 times more likely by 2100, according to the study.
Scientific
American – August 23, 2011: Atmospheric
researchers tend to agree that tropical cyclones of unusual ferocity
are coming this century, but the strange fact is that there is no
consensus to date on the five-point scale used to classify the power
of these anticipated storms. In what may sound like a page from the
script of the rock-band spoof Spinal Tap with its reference to a
beyond-loud electric guitar amplifier volume 11, there
is actually talk of adding a sixth level to the current
Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale,
on which category 5 intensity means sustained winds higher than 155
miles per hour (250 kilometers per hour) for at least one minute,
with no speed cap.
Without
a doubt, after this storm is over the academic community will again
start having these sorts of debates, and the mainstream media will
once again report on them.
And
if a “category 6” is ever created, it is very likely that
Hurricane Irma will fit that classification. The following is
from the article that
I posted yesterday…
I was criticized for suggesting that Irma could become so powerful that it could potentially be labeled a “category 6” storm if such a thing existed. Well, now it has actually happened. If you extrapolate the Saffir-Simpson scale, “category 6” would begin at 158 knots, which would be 181.8 miles per hour. Since Irma has surpassed that mark, I believe that it is entirely reasonable if people want to refer to it as a “category 6” storm.
Hurricane
Irma is not just another storm, and it would be useful to have a
special designation for a storm that is so extraordinarily
dangerous. Wherever it makes landfall, it is going to wipe
out virtually everything in its path…
Irma strengthened to a Category 5 hurricane Tuesday with winds up to 185 mph. The storm is most powerful ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean. It’s so strong it is even showing up on scales for measuring earthquakes.
“No way to sugarcoat it. Irma is the type of tropical cyclone that wipes everything, including all vegetation, clean from small islands,” wrote Anthony Sagliani, the Meteorological Operations Manager at weather data firm Earth Networks.
And
the National Hurricane Center is specifically warning that “a
high percentage of framed homes will be destroyed” by
a storm of this magnitude.
The National Hurricane Center reports dryly that when a Category 5 hurricane hits land, “a high percentage of framed homes will be destroyed,” adding power could be lost in some areas for“weeks and possibly months.”
So
I stand by everything that I have written, and I demand a retraction
and an apology from every mainstream news outlet that has slandered
me.
Just
because I am a
Republican candidate for Congress does
not mean that you can write things that are untrue. At one time
the mainstream media at least attempted to be objective, and there is
a reason so many are now referring to them as “the fake news”.
It
amazes me what passes for “journalism” these days. These
jackals jump on anything that even smells like it could be a
“scandal” for a Republican, and they seem to have no regard for
the truth whatsoever.
Michael
Snyder is
a Republican candidate for Congress in Idaho’s First Congressional
District, and you can learn how you can get involved in the campaign
on his official
website.
His new book entitled “Living
A Life That Really Matters” is
available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.
iI will just point out to the pedants that I am NOT a Christian.
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