What a year it was! The weather went mad! It can only have been climate change. There was heavy snow and hail all over the UK in the first week of January. Shoppers in London collapsed from the cold while a blizzard blanketed the north of England with several inches of snow. Five foot drifts marooned a train in Scotland while in Australia bush fires raged. By the middle of the month ‘killer smog’ had enveloped London and whole communities in Scotland were buried by more blizzards.
Early in February the Hudson River froze from shore to shore for the first time in 37 years. Fresh snow covered Britain again on 20th .
Floods killed 200 people in Australia on March 3rd. A further 44,000 were left homeless and 300,000 animals also drowned.
April saw more unseasonal weather, yet by July temperatures in Scotland reached 80°F (27°C) while Buenos Aires saw its first snow for decades. On July 14th lightning killed a woman and injured 46 racegoers at Royal Ascot. July was the hottest and driest for 86 years in the UK. An earthquake in Turkey killed 4 and left 25 injured. 600 houses were destroyed and 1,000 damaged.
Large parts of the US suffered the worst drought for 46 years and there were water shortages in Britain during August. Towards the end of the month, torrential rain caused serious problems in the south of the country.
By October, 71mph winds caused problems in the north, closing Liverpool’s Speke airport. India’s Punjab meanwhile suffered 12,000 square miles of flooding. 7,000 villages were inundated. Torrential rain and gales hit the south and east coasts of England later in the month. In November the south and west were blanketed in fog and as a result central London was dark by mid-afternoon.
By mid-December dense fog, gales, floods and snow affected all of Britain. In County Durham visibility was reduced to nil while the Orkneys experienced 94mph winds. The area was still suffering from the drought that first affected it in July. Churches took it upon themselves to pray for rain throughout December. Prayers that went unanswered.
The weather was certainly messed up in 1955!
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The weather conditions described are taken from the book, The Year I Was Born: 1955 (I was!) containing newspaper reports from that year. I haven’t included all the variations the book refers to. The world population in 1955 was 2.5 billion (8 billion today), the UK population was 49.5 million (68.4 today) and the USA 166 million (340 today).
Were the extremes of weather in 1955 the result of global warming? No-one has ever said so, not even Greta Thunberg. In fact, no-one mentions how volatile the weather was in the recent past when they’re busy telling us how much more calamitous it is today.
Is it though, really?
rejectingjesus, 
Hi,
I do like you take on Jesus and christianity in general, but I think you’re undermining your “rationalist” credentials with this kind of posts.
AGW is not some alarmist idea pushed by politicians (Al Gore!) and the media, but a theory accepted by the huge majority of climate experts the world over. The proportion of openly “skeptic” papers published over the last 30 years or so is tiny, and virtually all scientific institutions of the globe agree AGW is real.
I know this could be the result of some nefarious conspiracy, and I know you have a lot of definitive arguments as to why this is all BS, but those arguments have already been debunked countless times — by scientists and the real world. But yeah, AGW could be BS, and Heaven could be real; it’s basically the same probability I’d say.
It’s a nice trick you did there with the year 1955, well done, but please try to see the big picture with an open mind. You sound like a maverick, and that’s fine, but try to be rational first.
Apart from that, keep up the good work!
Alex
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Thank you for commenting, Alex. I think you miss the point I’m making here and in the previous post. I’m not disputing climate change – nor am I trying to be a maverick – I’m making the point that climate change is a constant. The climate has changed, sometimes drastically, throughout history (there are a few examples in my last post) and continues to do so. These historical changes cannot be attributed to human activity.
It’s likely of course that we are contributing to the pace of change today, but the scientific evidence is, despite what you say and what the mainstream media reports, inconsistent. Many reputable scientists tell us that, as I suggest in this post, that current changes may not be as calamitous as politicians and the mainstream media suggest. NASA scientists, for example, reported earlier this year that the Antarctica ice cap is expanding, not diminishing. It also appears that the Great Barrier Reef is recovering from recent setbacks.
https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/great-barrier-reef-recovery/
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/antarctica/nasa-satellites-show-antarctica-has-gained-ice-despite-rising-global-temperatures-how-is-that-possible
Meanwhile other reputable scientists bemoan the fact that their findings are not published or reported because they don’t fit the current narrative. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/6b23bf7a5840a4ba Additionally, these scientists point out that our tinkering around the edges of energy use costs vast amounts while achieving very little. China, USA, India and Russia, the producers of 56% of carbon emissions, are not even on board with even these measures. https://www.greenmatch.co.uk/blog/countries-with-the-highest-carbon-footprint
If we subscribe to the alarmist narrative, as it sounds like you do, the only way to slow climate change (‘reversing’ it is a fallacy) is to eliminate the use of fossil fuels entirely. This will never happen, and nor can it when fossil fuels are needed to create and capture much so-called green energy.
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