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Presented with little comment - except to say, maybe those Mayans were on to something?
Source: Goldman Sachs
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I'd also "overlay" weather modification....say what....starting in the early 90s? Who knows?
Those geo-engineers have our best interests at heart....just like those central bankers.....
Chebetts-you must be refering to the military HAARP program.
http://www.alaska.net/~logjam/HAARP.html
and then superimpose a REAL UNEMPLOYMENT chart up there and the Mayans were dead on.
Someday we will allow mass use of DMT and figure out this who God particle...I swear the disasters are linked to the human experience...more just just havng been in one.
How about an overlay of "militaries and governments":
"The global warming issue is then a double hoax. First, it is a fake crisis in the sense that humanity’s traditional activities are not the main cause of such warming. Second, real warming has been caused by geo-engineering, which militaries and governments have been playing with since the 1950?s."
http://real-agenda.com/2012/11/27/global-warming-more-likely-spurred-by-planetary-geo-engineeringWe can just trust the wise prophet B.I.G. on that one.
It would great on a Macbook pro with retina ( A hint to the wife )
Looks like a classic head and shoulders to me which means the worst is over.
Actually... scary how close that resembles the S&P 500
The chart nearly matches the growth of "diagnosable mental conditions."
...or demographic erection frequency trend.
jus sayin'
The chart nearly matches the growth of "diagnosable mental conditions."
I tried to junk you but my clickophobic mental spasms and surrealopothic condition wouldn't allow it.
It's not pretty but I get a lot of prescription drugs out of it.
Everything turns to shit in 1964..
Hmmm.
Lyndon Johnson announced the Formation of the Great Society and all its attendant Entitlement Programs.
Now, was that a disaster or not?
Others=birth of bankers
Kudlow: $268 Billion In New ObamaCare Taxes Coming January 1
there's a lot more people living more places.
... and better reporting.
If a tree falls in the forest, and no one hears it...
What color is a lemon if there is no light?...
yellow
I'm gonna market a refrigerator with a peep whole .... so you can make sure the light goes off !
Not a bad idea. A couple of years ago, our fridge didn't appear to be cooling properly. Turns out the door switch for the interior light was loose and the light was staying on with the door closed.
The answer is it has no color. Light is required to give anything "color". Without light, any / everything is black.
This is one of those areas where theology has practical application in the physical realm.
People were given grey matter for a reason. Now is as good a time as any to use it.
Just wish I had more of it to use.
Imo.
Krugman will have his plebes on it & project the boon to GDP... [as soon as his salary demands are inked for the coming year]...
Better?
Bigger, more of.
All you need these days is a mobile phone.
Yup.
And on the coasts and in flood plains.
the squid should know they caused them
Yawn, just another signature for AGW....
buy your carbon credits from the squid!
And what would that achieve?
bonuses - duh!
What exactly was your point?
Were you trying to imply that I support an auction and trading of carbon allowances and purchasing bogus offsets? Sorry, but you may have got me confused with somebody else....
awsum
and yet you continue to expell CO2
Daily.
I'm waiting for him to call for the killing all wildlife on the planet and entombing every tree that falls in the forest inside plastic...lest more CO2 be released.
I'm doing my utmost to consume as many cows, as rapidly as possible, to save the planet.
We must all do our part for the greater good of Gaia ;-)
Maybe if we stampeded them over cliffs like the Indians did, we could finally prove our true love of nature and gain the respect of the tree hugger class (who, by the way, live in concrete trees for the most part) constantly pointing their accusatory finger of waste and mismanagement at the very ones who supply the power, water, meat, vegetables and sewers to take it to & from their doors.
The amount of hypocrisy (and energy, thus CO2) dedicated to overheating Google server farms will only be surpassed by the by the absolute dead silence of a billion "screeching obssesed greenies" when the lights do finally go out.
Maybe Mrs. Cog is right after all.
<Exit stage right to the Plan B mountain retreat.>
wish mine was saying that
I am extremely lucky that Mrs. Cog came into my life with an open mind and a loving heart.
<It just doesn't get any better than that.>
Out of the blue, Mrs. Thong expressed a desire to go the range with me and develop some proficiency.
That kind of surprised me.
Are you sure she isn't planning on killing...........er.........never mind. :)
<What you don't know might actually hurt you......or worse.>
Well, she does have a bit of a temper, but If she ever decided to do me in, she’d likely opt for a more subtle and delicate method.
Actually, if she was going to do something like that, it certainly would have happened by now. :-)
right on. everyone should be competent with a rilfe/shotgun/pistol. probably in that order, imo.
Mine too. Started her on pistols last week.
Looks like we are entering a disaster recession. Or a blowoff top.
Nominal disasters does not a point make.
Should put up a graph of animosity against Goldman Sachs.
blowoff top would have a different meaning...
Need to use a logarithmic scale.
nice head and shoulders there.
yeah, and when it breaks things should get calm again.
I dunno... I'm seeing strong support around the 250 NND.
Or, is it trending down since 2009?
Completely predicted by climate change models.
Benanke's Bazooka will end this deflationary spiral. Get to work Mr. Chairman
definitely Bernanke's fault.
No no, look at the pattern. Obviously Bush's fault.
Interesting, but this could be explained simply by: More people living in more areas, more people bothering to report things at all (because its getting technically far easier), and an increasingly low bar for an event to be considered a "disaster"... would be interesting to dig into this
"an increasingly low bar for an event to be considered a "disaster"... " Cable going out?
The last election cycle?
TV Camera
Do you think that maybe someone might have already done that?
http://www.munichre.com/en/reinsurance/business/non-life/georisks/natcatservice/great_natural_catastrophes.aspx
http://www.munichre.com/en/media_relations/press_releases/2012/2012_10_17_press_release.aspx
Much more if you dig further....
Perhaps this chart shows how big insurance companies have become.
Yeah... but in the 1950's people still thought thunder was caused by the "Gods" bowling or something so....
Actually over a longer period of time there is no change in the number of natural disasters. Sorry environmentalists.
So are you saying a 50 year dataset from 100's of millions of years isn't valid? I bet your one of those "loonies' who don't believe in climate change either!!
Looks like a picture-perfect head and shoulders formation. Short Climate Change FTW.
No I'm saying that natural disasters have always occured and humans are not going to change that. You're attacking a straw man as I never claimed to disagree with VALID data (how could anyone disagree with that unless they are insane?).
It's not about what one believes either. It's about what one can prove. There is evidence for changing temperatures, as there has been changing temperatures since the earth was formed. There is no conclusive evidence that humans are changing the long term climate considerably or to a dangerous level. That's something some people have blindly accepted though, you seem to be one of them.
I think that he / she was being sarcastic.
Is Krugman's alien invasion under "Other"?
Well... I guess an invasion isn't a natural disaster.
Why do all these charts look like the long term S&P 500 chart?
Much ado. See data FAQ #3
http://emdat.be/frequently-asked-questions
I like the "state of emergency declared."
That about sums it up. Hype. 10 or more killed? 100 or more affected?
I would think that you can subtract every super bowl/NCCA/NBA/World series out of that dataset.
And evey forecast of snow down here in the South.
pods
Yup. ust let someone *think* snow. Suddenly all grocery stores cleaned out of bread, beer, diapers and buttwipe.
Every quickie mart cleaned out of beer, cigerettes, lotto tickets, and porn magazines.
everything is a crisis and a disaster nowadays
Chart is sorta fubar, so there were no disasters before 1950 or almost none?
Goldman didn't mean to release the disaster data set, it is for internal use only. What Goldman meant to release was the Acts of God data set which has an inverse correlation, Just keep racking up consumer debt because the world is a happier place with fewer AoG.
can i add my P&L and my marriage to the list .lol
+10000
Holy Crap!
Like subprime, it's all contained.
But can we be sure that they are reporting them all? Sandy will be renamed Brew-102 so no one will have to count it.
IS there a sale anywhere in Amerika? Just need more wafffle irons, phones and panties.
In California, any rainy day is a "storm". That graph can also double as "the number of pussies who feel victimized by everyday events".
Same here. Since times immemorial people have hedged as best they could against cyclical 'natural disasters', eg. storms, droughts, floods etc. If you no longer can, then put them under the same category as earthquakes, meteor strikes and volcanic eruptions.
States are incentivized by the FEDs to inflate damages… More damage = more free money!!!!!!!
I suspect that if you deflate this chart by the total global population in some manner, you will find things relatively constant. As the population grows, people tend to settle in places where there were no people previously. The reason that there were no people previously is often because the place was downright hazardous. Also "major" seems linked to the total number of people killed or displaced. As the number of people increases, there are simply more of them around to die. More people will die tomorrow on average than ever died before.
Just what I was thinking. New Orleans is a perfect example: drain a swamp build a city below sea level and then complain when things get wet.
Actually, it was above sea level for a while when they first built it. The problem is that it was just muck and as you built on it, there was considerable subsidence. I am waiting for a reasonable sized earthquake to hit Boston sometime. Not that I really want to see it happen, but most of Boston is built on imported mush. The only way they could build the "Big Pig" was literally to pipe liquid nitrogen into pipes adjacent to where they were tunneling and freeze it solid for a while. Back Bay was a bay back then.
It looks like Peak Calamity was about 2006. Huzzah! It's all down hill, now! All down hill.
shuss as they say in austria...shuss...sounds very downhill/
I believe the source of the chart is the biggest disaster. Should i be a muppet and buy this?
I bet they change the definition of "natural disaster" just like they change the definition of inflation as they go...
After perhaps war....what better way to expand government?
The Nature is not happy when its children do not consider that every system exhibiting growth, as the advanced industrial human society, for example, on average, has to adhere to the Natural growth.
This is one thing that was automatically enforced by the Gold standard.
Our next generation of leaders was raised on virtual world so I see nothing but good things in the future.
Pagan Nature worship bitchez.
looks like mother nature having a multiple orgasm
Nah the read needs to be upside down to see the reverse effects.
Ok, back to my drinks
Heck of a leap in the late 70's when satellites came on line....
More population + better detection capabilities = spike in data
A few things lining up in space could cause some changes in the gravity our planet is subjected to which could change the tides and could change pressures on the tectonic plates, so there could be some extra natural disasters in this period.
However I also wonder if the increases in the chart correspond to keeping better track of naturl disasters than before. Now you get extra help from the Feds if you can declare an emergency.
It just seems much worse since the only time people go outside now is when the weather if perfect ( maybe 3 weeks a year ) or when a disaster forces them to experience it.
dont ever let a crisis, go to waste !
- Rahm Emanuel
I'll say it again: There's only one thing you need. One thing only.
www.endtimesgiftbasket.com
Do you know how many hurricane hit Florida before 1492?
Docs tell you what was the weather like in Greece 2000 years before that.
My point is that the more you document events, the more events you will find.
Word.
Insert Jaws theme, here.
Nice chart.
Time for "Great Change" BITCHEZZZ!
It's almost Christmas! HAARP, the herald angels sing...
Usual fraud from the Kings of Thieves.
GS and one big fat manpig are in business together, GIM. Have been for years. A lot of the disasters ,if you read the web news, are.. the worst in 60 years or the hottest in 40 years. They simply tell lies.
We also have a massive population in coastal areas world wide. So more are hit when it happens, re Florida.
Humans have also invented the satellite to watch and record shit happening, better obsevation.
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/political-climate
and don't forget the amount of public funding, your fucking taxes, being expertly stolen by these reprehensible EcoFacsisti.
GS and Gore will rort to death any and all Carbon schemes, that is why they are talking their book here.
regards
strong correlation with m3
Looks like several head and shoulder patterns to me and we're sitting on the right shoulder. So should we really be expecting a move to the downside in disasters? Length of the neck below the neck line?
looks like a head and shoulders top
According to Gevin Giorbran in “Everything Forever” , time events flow in cyclic patterns. This chart shows a downtrend in catastrophic events in the near future.
Good times are on the way, right?
A Random Walk Down Tornado Alley?
One time? I can think of a lot of things were more is not better.
Taxes
Cancer
AIDS
Buttrape
Entirely a matter of perspective.
Win for:
Govt.
Dr.'s
Dr.'s
Bubba
It's pretty damn clear people. If we had created a thriving environment for government-sanctioned HFT players in weather and natural events, these "crisis" would have been averted. There are algos that could have taken the other side of those catastrophes, thereby providing the liquidity necessary to have prevented them. Then, the WetherEx could have hiked margin requirements on these so-called natural events, and made sure that profits (in the sense of saved lives of course) were locked in, and Mayans received their fair share.
I can't believe you guys are that dumb.
"...Please don't worry"
If we dam up all the rivers on the planet and create enormous reservoirs, will that influence the spinning of the earth?
China's Monster Three Gorges Dam Is About To Slow The Rotation Of The Earth
The Myth: The filling of the reservoir behind Three Gorges Dam in China changed the rotation of the Earth.
The Evidence: Three Gorges Dam, China crosses the Yangtze River in Hubei province, China. It the world’s largest hydroelectric power station by total capacity, which will be 22,500 MW when completed. When the water level is maximum at 175 meters (574 ft) over sea level (91 meters (299 ft) above river level), the reservoir created by the dam is about 660 kilometers (410 mi) in length and 1.12 kilometers (0.70 mi) in width on average. The total surface area of the reservoir is 1045 square kilometers, and it will will flood a total area of 632 square kilometers, of land. The reservoir will contain about 39.3 cu km (9.43 cubic miles) of water. That water will weigh more than 39 trillion kilograms (42 billion tons).
A shift in a mass of that size would affect the rotation of the Earth due to a phenomena known as the moment of inertia, which is the inertia of a rigid rotating body with respect to its rotation. The moment of inertia of an object about a given axis describes how difficult it is to change its angular motion about that axis. The longer the distance of a mass to its axis of rotation, the slower it will spin.
Read more: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-06-18/news/29962195_1_inertia-rotation-axis#ixzz2DeISinfn
Now if one dam would, what would 5 thousand do?
If they were all over the world, there would be no effect. If they were all in China, there would be a measurable effect. The moment of inertia is changed if the distribution of mass is changed.
most dams are located in the northern hemisphere,
80 % or conceivable more.
90% of the worlds population lives in the N.H.
Mayans understood Elloitt Waves?
Of course, the irony is that the data was collected/presented by Goldman Sachs. Shouldn't this come with a formal disclaimer to the effect of,"At the time of this report Goldman Sachs was responsible for no more than 30% of these events."
Nope, the number of natural disasters is about to collapse. Doesn't any one see the breakout to the bottom side under the right shoulder of the head and shoulder pattern!
Reported.
You (GS) forgot a word.
The moral of the tale is, "know what you're measuring".
What about man made disasters like chemtrail spraying and HAARP in conjunction. This is the cause of many of our present day disasters. Please ,people who know it is going on,Inform your friends and families even if they don't want to hear. It's the real deal going on......
STOP CHEMTRAIL SPRAYING and HAARP
People are too consumed in all regards to care about the air they breathe or the waves that shake their brain. The gubinment can fix anything. Especially with the magical printing press than the great wizards have created.
obviously THEY know something WE dont !!!
At this stage, these charts along with others are futile. That is of course, unless you have become a zombie and have decimated every intellectual gift you were given since birth and are now prone to forget what you experienced the previous day due to a high stress, high sodium, and genetically modified diet. ZH, is the last stand socio economically and politically-anywhere. Even so, if it was to give birth to a prognostication to the infallible nature of creation, it comes to a screeching halt when the first sign of our fallacies are shared in all their voraciousness. Why? Because the lack of Love. And to Love takes faith. And to have faith takes sacrifice. And who is willing to sacrifice for Love? Especially when we have a cushion of money, or power, or security or gubinment.
Interesting. I suspect this is just a result of population growth and people living in areas that flood more than they used to. Note that nearly all the increase is in the "flood" category. Note, also, that a flood is not a "disaster" unless humans are affected. A flood area that is inhabited today but was not inhabited 25 years ago would move from the "not disaster" column to the "disaster" column.
And a hypersensitive media and everywhere eyes of the Internet
This is the kind of post that makes people point to ZH and say that we're a bunch of conspiricy theorists. Fiat money is a disaster of our own making. Earthquakes and Volcanos? Those kinds of disasters are not increasing in frequency. Chart or no chart, that is actually crazy talk.
Increasing birth pains? Romans 8:22
People have given bible verses and others have tried to explain this phenom, as man's evil or to even deny, saying it's more people in more remote places, but no one that I have read has connected the dots. If the weather/earthquakes are getting more frequent and more intense, then ...
this is leading to something climactic, even though evolution says, "for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation." (II Peter 3:4) spoken by Peter of those scoffers in the last days.
The thing of it is, that this climax will arrive without anyone knowing it, as informayshun wrote earlier. Then no one will be able to get out of it. God requires faith. It's the one test all must pass or fail. Messiah comes like a thief in the night. His shakina glory will pierce the darkness of this sinful world. Get into Him like Noah got into the ark, friends.
BULLISH!!!
HAARP ELF waves.
http://www.haarpstatus.com/status.html
>> Don't forget the Drought in the midwest, huge water sheds in Colorado were/are at 10% of historic levels much of this year. Many of the large grain producing states are in extreme drought, a couple more seasons like this and we "little people" go on soylent green diets.... You can drive you car UP the ski slopes in Colorado right now.
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/monitor.html
Mayans??? Pleeease.
Jesus is coming back for His elect and no man knoweth the hour when he returns until then this world is in Satan the asshole's hands (with God limiting his power). Of course the modern mind is repulsed by such fairy tales. Do not be naive there IS a God and there is a devil. When you think about it deeply enough the fact that you are even reading this is a miracle.
Correlation is not causation, but ignorning correlation defies common sense.
Starting around 1974, the US military started experimenting with weather modification. See this senate hearing transcript regarding cloud seeding during vietnam war: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-30/one-time-when-more-certainly-no...
This practice goes by many names (weather modification, geo-engineering, chemtraisl, haarp, etc) and it typically gets those who mention it admitted to the tinfoil hat club.
Oddly, the US military is exempt from the tinfoil hat club for publishing documents and plans such as "Owning the weather by 2025". http://csat.au.af.mil/2025/volume3/vol3ch15.pdf
Flame on, nothing to see here....
Mayans weren't on to anything .... the Egyptians were something .... Aryans wintering and waiting for the ice to recede .... not the happless Morsi idiots of today ! The far east had some good things going on .... but they never figured out music, nor the digital alphabet .... never got beyond hieroglyphs ! I've offended more than a few Mexicans .... they're taught the Mayans were equal to the Egyptians (wintering Aryans) ? Go figger ?
Made my day...Welteislehre meets Jared Diamond in Tahrir. Forgot the Zionist Comedy Jihad Baktun 13 though
Cancer and wild weather are being observed more .... they've always been around ! I'd rather watch weather catastrophies .... than boring UN General Assembly pussy fights ?
While I'm at it .... tugboats can't tow icebergs !
Good point/ I have never ever junked you Modenas. I know you are unique and smart.
I do not believe these types of very unscientific reports. Most have biases serious enough to completely discredit them.
First, they are subject to the observer / instant reporter / 24-hour newschannel effect. That is, there are far more observers today, living in areas, that for much of history, were sparsely or completely uninhabited. And anyone can collect data and make charts. Few, if any of them account for the above factors in their methodology. Most importantly few if any publicize their methodology.
Second, those observers, using today's (year 2012) telecommunications infrastructure to make and distribute audio-visuals made during the storm, flood, etc. The immediacy of seeing the disaster unfold obscures earlier, in cases much more severe disasters.
Now consider the "Little Ice Age" of the early-19th Century. People could ice skate on the Thames in London and fairs were held on the ice. Then there was the year without a summer, again in the early-181X's, caused by a volcanic eruption halfway around the world. Crops failed in New England. The sun shined for only a few hours per day.
There was the Great Warming during the 13th century. It was so warm that the Vikings colonized Greenland (talk about deceptive advertising) and Newfoundland. When it turned cold again a more tha a century later the Greenland colony failed. The Newfoundland colony may have succumbed more due to hostile Native American opposition to the Norse interlopers than the return of the cold. The Norse were at the furthermost limit of their logistical support. The Native Americans had untold numbers of warriors to fight the Norse incursion.
I doubt that the schools teach history like this nowadays? It would call into question their "Global Warming" religion that puts the cause solely on humanity for burning hydrocarbons and releasing CO2 into the atmosphere.
The Earth's climate is too complex and poorly understood to definitively / scientifically place the blame solely on CO2 emissions.