Potential cyclones

CAN someone elaborate on where the doom and gloom about the “potential increase in frequency of high-intensity cyclones” (CP, 07/08) Prof Allan Dale article) is coming from?

Official records from BOM show that this is really not factual.

There are many false predictions and media hype intensifies as soon as there is a whiff of a potential cyclone way out to sea, consequently frightening any potential tourists away from North Queensland for weeks ahead, most coming to nothing thankfully.

I have copies of records from 1864 showing severity and number of deaths at each incident over 159 years.

It is obvious that if more intense cyclones do happen to occur (if the climate change devotees pray hard enough) that nothing will surpass what has already occurred. Humans have always adapted regardless. Bev Prescott, Tolga 1870: Melbourne Town Hall is opened. 1942: HMAS Canberra sinks during the

Battle of Savo Island. 1945: More than 70,000 people are killed in Nagasaki during World War II after the US drops a second atomic bomb on the Japanese city. 1974: Gerald Ford is sworn in as 38th president of the United States after Richard Nixon becomes the first US president to resign from office. 2012: Former Hey Dad! actor Robert Hughes is arrested in London on an Australian extradition order alleging child sexual assault. 2016: Millions of Australians are prevented from filling in the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ online form after the website crashes to a halt. 2018: Bali authorities arrest Australian man Brendon Johnsson (above) for cocaine possession.