Warmist claim: ‘This week’s floods are a glimpse of a changed climate’ – ‘America Is Under Water, Literally’ – Climate Depot Rebuts
Climate Depot Rebuttal on Floods:
Prof. Pielke Jr. : ‘Are US Floods Increasing? The Answer is Still No’ — ‘A new paper out today shows flooding has not increased in U.S. over records of 85 to 127 years’ — ‘This adds to a pile of research that shows similar results around the world’
Federal study finds no evidence that climate change caused more severe flooding during last century!– Inconvenient Reality: U.S. Geological Survey finds in some regions ‘floods become LESS SEVERE as greenhouse gas emissions have increased’ — USGS scientist Robert Hirsch: ‘Currently we do not see a clear pattern that enables us to understand how climate change will alter flood conditions in the future’ — But, USGS pleads they need more study (and money!): ‘Noted more research is necessary to better understand the relationship between climate change and flooding’
All Of The World’s Deadliest Floods Occurred With CO2 Well Below 350 PPM — ‘We know that hurricanes have declined, tornadoes have declined, floods have declined, and droughts have declined. That is why history has been redefined to start in the 1970s’
Gore Rebuked: ‘There is currently no evidence that human-generated greenhouse gas emissions are making storms – or floods – worse’ — ‘So why, in the name of heaven, is Al Gore now spending time and money on a campaign that claims the exact opposite?’
100/500 Year Floods : Every Few Weeks? Reality Check: ‘One of the big lies of 2011 is the claim that ‘the new normal is 100 year floods every year’ — ‘A search of news archives finds out that 100 year floods have been reported constantly, ever since someone thought the term up’
Myles Allen: ‘When Al Gore said last week that scientists now have ‘clear proof that climate change is directly responsible for the extreme and devastating floods, storms and droughts,’…my heart sank. Having suggested the idea of ‘event attribution’ back in 2003, & co-authored a study on origins of UK floods in 2000, I suspect I may be one of the scientists being talked about’
New peer-reviewed paper on the 2010 Pakistan floods – nothing to do with ‘climate change’
1974: Climatologists Blamed US/Pakistan Flooding On Global Cooling
Is Flood Magnitude in the USA Correlated with Global CO2 Levels? Answer: No — ‘The results of 21 peer-reviewed studies on flooding & climate variability in N. America: ‘If anything, N. American flooding tends to become both less frequent and less severe when the planet warms…on average, we would expect that any further warming of the globe would tend to further reduce both the frequency and severity of flooding in N. America, which, of course, is just the opposite of what the world’s climate alarmists continue to claim would occur’
Which of the below worst floods on record were caused by carbon dioxide?
Date |
Location |
Dead |
1887, September-October |
Hwang Ho (Yellow) River, China |
Over 900,000 |
1939 |
North China |
500000 |
1642 |
Kaifeng, Honan Province, China |
Over 300,000 |
1099 |
England and the Netherlands |
100000 |
1287, December 14 |
The Netherlands |
50000 |
1824 |
Russia |
10000 |
1421, November 18 |
The Netherlands |
10000 |
1964, November-December |
Mekong Delta, South Vietnam |
5000 |
1951, August 6-7 |
Manchuria |
4800 |
1948, June |
Foochow, China |
3500 |