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Some cities may even experience more than 100 inches of rain, the study published Friday in the Science Advances journal says, displacing 5 to 10 million people, cutting off the state’s freeways for weeks or even a month and causing worldwide economic damage.
California has faced such massive flooding every century or two over the past millennia, and in 1862, before the state invested in flood mitigation technologies, a Great Flood stretched up to 300 miles long and 60 miles across.
In 2010, scientists looked into the possibility of that happening again.
This new study now expands upon that ARkStorm scenario, named after the ‘atmospheric rivers’ of moisture that could fuel a flood of biblical proportions, to take into account the effects of climate change.
They used high resolution weather models and existing climate models to compare two scenarios: One that would occur once in a century based on the historical climate of recent decades, and another in the projected climate of 2081 to 2100.
In both cases, the researchers found, a long series of storms fueled by these atmospheric rivers — which extend thousands of miles from the tropics to the western United States — could cause massive damage.
Past studies have shown that climate change will make these atmospheric rivers warmer, leading to more intense and more frequent storms.
As a result, a flood like the one that occurred in 1862 would leave ‘parts of cities such as Sacramento, Fresno and Los Angeles... under water even with today’s extensive collection of reservoirs, levees and bypasses,’ the study found.
‘It is estimated that it would be a $1 trillion disaster, larger than any in world history.’
But don’t expect them to roll back any of their recent utilities price increases.
Your state and Federale tax dollars hard at work. Paying for alarmist bullcrap research grants at UCLA, a public university.
******* Biblical I tells ya! We’re all gonna die in California.
Wow, mega climate porn today.
And, of course, the predictions have a roughly 0.0000001% chance of being correct. Note to libs, don’t forget about that % after the 0.0000001...it actually changes the answer a bit. (This is necessary for folks who actually believe that a man can have a baby and other assaults on logic.)
OKAY..................
2. Let the farmers have more water. Should take care of all that "flooding"...
Same story was on NPR this morning.
If they happen every century or two and the last was in 1862 seems like another one is due naturally with no need for “man made global warming” input.
When the going gets tough, the fake climate scientists go BIBLICAL!
Oh
For
Pete’s
Sake.
Flood prevention are WHY Resivours were built , and they are about bone dry so im not worried.
Fear porn diversion media
to keep Californians from asking why the rivers downstream of the resivours are running high at the height of summer and why the state is dumping the water out of our resivours as fast as they can during a drought.
Watch,
if asked that they will claim they have to make room in the resivours to hold back
” the climate change floods.”
So this flooding has been happening over the last millennia, but now the cause is man-made climate change?
100 inches of rain in a month would make the Big Valley the biggest lake in the world.
400 x 100 miles.
It HAS happened before recorded history.
Southern California’s storm water systems major facilities are based on that. Prado dam was raised to prevent that. In SC the design storm happened in two successive years.