What Caused the Heat Wave of 1911?

RUSH: I have a story in The Stack today about a heat wave in the Northeast, in Boston, in Maine, in Connecticut. It was 11 days of absolute hell. And it was before air-conditioning.

People were committing suicide in this heat wave because it was so dastardly. Tar was actually bubbling where they had used it on roadways and so forth. Railroad tracks were being bent out of shape because of the heat. Now, this is 1911. The St. Louis Cardinals were on a train, the baseball team was on a train that got derailed because of this heat wave. They were on their way to Boston to play the Boston Braves.

But I find most people’s historical perspective begins with the day they were born. And, by the same token, the climate change crowd relies on something that is very easy to peddle, and that is this point in time. On the timeline of all human history, when we all happen to be alive, which is probably no bigger than a speck of dust in atmospheric terms, in terms of the actual timeline of the universe and humanity, when we are all alive is when it’s normal!

Yes, isn’t that miraculous?

We haven’t been measuring atmospheric conditions, temperature, weather for nearly long enough to know what normal is. We have no clue what normal is. By the same token, crazy weather, the weather’s been crazy. The weather’s always crazy.

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