Meteorologist on 500/1000 year flood claims: ‘We are talking about billions of years of climate & usually just a hundred years of actual, observational data’
Tenacious Topper Shutt: 100, 500 and 1000 year floods can be confusing. The flooding from Harvey is being called a 500 year flood. What does that mean? Well, the US Government in the early 1970s wanted to improve the National Flood Insurance Program. So, flood plains were drawn estimating worst case scenario floods to determine […]
New study in Journal of Hydrology finds no increase in floods – ‘Compelling evidence for increased flooding at a global’ scale is lacking’
# Journal of Hydrology Volume 552, September 2017, Pages 704-717 “Climate-driven variability in the occurrence of major floods across North America and Europe” Highlights • Trends in major-floods from 1204 sites in North America and Europe are assessed. • Trends based on counting exceedances of flood thresholds for groups of gauges. • The number of […]
Warmist: ‘Houston, you have a problem, and some of it of your own making’ due to being ‘oil & gas capital’
By Peter Hannam Yes, Houston, you do have a problem, and – as insensitive as it seems to bring it up just now – some of it is your own making. Let’s be clear upfront. I unreservedly wish that all of your millions of citizens get safely through Tropical Storm Harvey, and the biblical-scale deluge and […]
Al Gore’s sequel drops 75% in weekend box office take, just 4% of earnings from 2006 original
By Anthony Watts / Apparently Gore’s climate doom message just isn’t that popular anymore, even with a “climate caused” hurricane hitting the USA this weekend. Now in it’s 5th week (4 weeks in wide release, the premier was only a handful of theaters) An Inconvenient Sequel dropped 74.6% over the weekend as reported by Box Office Mojo: It must be […]
Climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer: Texas Major Hurricane Intensity Not Related to Gulf Water Temperatures
August 29th, 2017 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. As the Houston flood disaster is unfolding, there is considerable debate about whether Hurricane Harvey was influenced by “global warming”. While such an issue matters little to the people of Houston, it does matter for our future infrastructure planning and energy policy. Let’s review the two […]
Bastardi: No Michael Mann — Climate change did not cause Hurricane Harvey
Meteorologist Joe Bastardi takes down fake Nobelist Michael Mann’s lame effort in the Guardian to link climate with Hurricane Harvey. By Joe Bastardi August 29, 2017, Reprinted with the permission of Weatherbell.com Dr. Mann at PSU has outdone himself. Back when New England had their famed February with snow and cold, he made the claim […]
Warmist Naomi Klein uses Harvey to call for climate ‘solutions’ & ‘battling all forms of inequality & injustice’
HARVEY DIDN’T COME OUT OF THE BLUE. NOW IS THE TIME TO TALK ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE. By Naomi Klein NOW IS EXACTLY the time to talk about climate change, and all the other systemic injustices — from racial profiling to economic austerity — that turn disasters like Harvey into human catastrophes. Turn on the coverage of […]
Morano on TV rebuts Harvey ‘global warming’ claims
On last night’s show, Marc Morano of ClimateDepot.com and I discussed the media’s habit of blaming natural disasters on climate change. I remember when they made these claims when Calgary was hit by floods, despite floods being a regular occurrence there over thousands of years. They’re doing it now Texas, with mainstream media outlets claiming climate change is responsible […]
Meteorologist Joe Bastardi: Harvey is 7th highest magnitude hurricane on record to hit Texas
Joe Bastardi, a meteorologist at WeatherBell Analytics who doubts the mainstream science about human contribution to climate change, said Harvey is within what he would expect, given recent weather patterns. “I could give you 100 examples of how Harvey has occurred all over the world in other places,” he said. Bastardi believes that the climate is […]
Harvey marks the most extreme rain event in U.S. history
By Jason Samenow August 29 at 2:09 PM The rain from Harvey is in a class of its own. The storm has unloaded over 50 inches of rain east of Houston, the greatest amount ever recorded in the Lower 48 states from a single storm. And it’s still raining. John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas state climatologist, said a rain gauge in […]