Derna Disaster - 'Experts' And MSM Link To Climate Change, Catastrophe Conspiracists Oddly Quiet

Storm Daniel, an intense tropical-like Mediterranean cyclone which formed near Greece on September 4th, has brought heavy rain to Libya, resulting in the failure of two dams on the same river system, causing the deaths of many thousands of people in the Libyan port city of Derna. Apparently one dam, up river, failed first, causing the other dam nearer to Derna to also burst (presumably due to the tidal wave of water sweeping downstream as a result of the first dam failure). The result is extensive devastation and loss of life in Derna.

No time to pay respects to the dead, or even count them; the climate change propagandists got in there quick to do their thing, which was, plant the seed in people’s minds that this catastrophic event is linked to the imaginary ‘climate crisis’. No actual evidence needed, just the suggestion that climate change played a part in making the storm worse and the observation that this is ‘what we expect’ from a warming climate. You might think that the first question the media would ask, is why did the first dam fail so catastrophically? Dams are supposed to be designed to cope with extreme floods; when they risk overtopping, the excess water is released in a controlled manner such that pressure is relieved upon the dam structure. So what went wrong? That’s not an important question, apparently; whether climate change played any part is. The nearest the Guardian got to questioning the integrity of the dam structure was this:

But the storm itself was not wholly to blame for the destruction wreaked on Derna, where infrastructure, including the burst dams, was already in a parlous state, according to experts. More than a decade after Libya’s cities were bombarded by Nato navies and warplanes supporting a revolt against Muammar Gaddafi, its former longtime ruler, the oil-rich country remains a shadow of its former prosperity. Like many poorer countries, Libya simply was not ready for the extreme weather Daniel brought.

Other than that, the paper just obsessed repeatedly over the possible role of climate change.

For months this summer, the region had already sweltered under an unprecedented heatwave. Scientists say that the heatwave raised sea surface temperatures, which could have encouraged the formation of a Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone, or “medicane”.

“While no formal attribution of the role of climate change in making Storm Daniel more intense has been conducted yet, it is safe to say that the Mediterranean sea surface temperatures have been considerably above average throughout summer,” said Dr Karsten Haustein, a climate scientist at Leipzig University.

“This is certainly true for the region where Daniel could form and wreak havoc over Greece and now Libya … The warmer water does not only fuel those storms in terms of rainfall intensity, it also makes them more ferocious.”

And again:

Prof Lizzie Kendon, professor of climate science at the University of Bristol Cabot Institute for the Environment, said: “We expect the intensity of heavy rainfall to increase as the world warms. This will not be realised as a smooth trend, and we should expect the occurrence of extreme events unprecedented in the observational record.

“Storm Daniel is illustrative of the type of devastating flooding event we may expect increasingly in the future, but such events can occur just due to the natural variability of the climate – as they did in the past. Therefore, care is needed before linking any specific extreme event to climate change.”

Professor Liz Stephens, of the University of Reading says:

“Climate change is thought to be increasing the intensity of the strongest medicanes and we are confident that climate change is supercharging the rainfall associated with such storms. It would be interesting to evaluate whether, like 40 degree temperatures in the UK, the rainfall totals in eastern Libya would have been physically implausible without climate change. However, this is a complex question that would have to take into account any changes in storm track as well as the rainfall totals."

Professor Suzanne Gray says:

“The IPCC 6th assessment report concludes that there is consistent evidence that the frequency of medicanes decreases with climate warming, but the strongest medicanes become stronger.”

So much for the ‘experts’. In case you’re wondering, tropical-like cyclones in the Mediterranean (medicanes) are not rare or unprecedented and can be very destructive:

Tropical-like storms or cyclones in the Mediterranean, also known by their popular name medicanes are cyclones with subtropical and tropical characteristics, that form in the Mediterranean.

They can produce severe winds and torrential rainfall. Similar to tropical cyclones, medicanes are warm core systems, they often closely resemble tropical cyclones in satellite images. Well developed medicanes have tropical characteristics, with clear circular eyes, surrounded by an eyewall and (axisymmetric) cloud pattern.

Medicanes typically reach gale to storm force strength, however, the strongest have even reached hurricane strength and thus pose very significant severe wind threat. As they also result in torrential rainfall, they produce major floods in affected areas.

Tropical-like storms or cyclones / medicanes are an annual occurrence, appearing on average 1-2 times each year.

They also don’t need very high sea surface temperatures and indeed, most occur outside of the summer months:

Unlike tropical cyclones, medicanes can form with sea surface temperatures below 26 °C. They form throughout the year but are by far most likely to form between September and January. Medicanes typically form under troughs or cutoff upper lows characterized by very cold airmass aloft and resulting instability over the warm Mediterranean sea.

So if you read somewhere that Storm Daniel was ‘supercharged’ by very warm waters, made warmer by climate change, it’s probably bullshit.

It’s quite nauseating, because in all probability, 20,000 people may be dead because of the knock on effects of the invasion of Libya, but all the MSM and ‘experts’ are bothered about is trying to establish the link between ‘climate change’. In all likelihood, it was the 2011 military intervention in Libya, spearheaded by the international war-mongering cabal of David Cameron, Nicolas Sarkozy, Barack Obama and his sidekick Hillary (“we came, we saw, he [Gaddafi] died”) Clinton which was ultimately responsible for the Derna catastrophe. They destroyed a once prosperous North African nation as well as opening up a gateway for the African slave trade and the influx of illegal immigrants into Europe.

Three days later and the media are at least questioning why the dams broke, with most concluding that it was lack of maintenance coupled with the sheer volume of water. Interestingly, Sky reports that Derna residents heard explosions just prior to the dams bursting.

As many as 20,000 people are feared dead. The climate fraudsters wasted no time suggesting a link to the imaginary ‘climate crisis’ but, unlike the Lahaina fire, also co-opted by the climate catastrophists, which killed somewhat fewer Hawaiians than the Derna dam collapses have killed Libyans, there appears to be no associated endless flood of speculation about a globalist conspiracy to destroy Derna using weather modification and/or exotic weaponry to murder its residents and build on the prime real estate or convert it to a 15 minute city or whatever. No guys in baseball caps and dark shades making videos on Youtube about the supposed damning evidence of an unnatural weather event or anomalous patterns of destruction suggestive of malign technological intervention. Why is that?