To those saying that it’s normal flooding - it isn’t. Scientific American notes the extreme weather and suggests it may be the “new normal.” Note the word, “new.”
“Over the past year alone, catastrophic rain events characterized as once-in-500-year or even once-in-1,000-year events have flooded West Virginia, Texas, Oklahoma, South Carolina and now Louisiana, sweeping in billions of dollars of property damage and deaths along with the high waters.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/extreme-floods-may-be-the-new-normal/
Note the Scientific American article is dated August of 2016. Alot more has happened since then.
I know there are floods elsewhere. But try typing in “extreme flooding” in search engines and you get hits all over the world.
Here’s a few:
From late August 2017
VIDEO AT LINK (shows picture of massive gilded spire from building bobbing up in water like a cork)
http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2017/07/25/extreme-flooding-asia-mxb-lon-orig.cnn
VIDEO From California in Oroville,Fresno and Sacramento; Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington:
(note that it shows a big rig as it is being blown over onto a cop car)
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/northern-california-struggles-with-extreme-flooding-after-week-of-rain-874778179975
Note that this isn’t hype - many times in my review of the info I came across comments about “Gee, it’s odd to have so many 1000 or 500 year storms back to back.”
And another re Asia:
“According to the United Nations, at least 41 million people in Bangladesh, India and Nepal have been directly affected by flooding and landslides resulting from the monsoon rains, which usually begin in June and last until September.”
http://www.iflscience.com/environment/heavy-monsoon-causing-extreme-flooding-in-south-asia-has-killed-1200-people-so-far/
“Currently India, Nepal, and Bangladesh are being hit by the most extreme floods seen in the region for more than a decade. The huge amount of water being dumped on the region has exacted a deadly toll, with 1,200 people known to have died so far, while over 40 million have been displaced.”
http://www.iflscience.com/environment/heavy-monsoon-causing-extreme-flooding-in-south-asia-has-killed-1200-people-so-far/
PSA: “Just 6 inches of fast-moving flood water can knock you over and possibly carry away your car, according to AAA. If your vehicle does become flooded, leave the car to get to higher and safer ground, prioritizing your personal safety over the fate of your car, AAA says.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/northern-california-struggles-with-extreme-flooding-after-week-of-rain-874778179975 (same as video link above)
Scientific American + the Google Search Engine
A group of scientists have done a statistical analysis of the use of the Google Search engine on subjects like “climate change” and “extreme weather”. There is a statistical aberration in Google’s search results - what is making it to the top of the search results, that is only possible with a political bias, and low and behold, such use of a bias in written right into Google search managers guide book.
Scientific American has not been a top reputable science journal since at least the 1980s, when I quit subscribing.
The mere mention of the words “extreme” or “record” in terms of either flooding or temperatures does not make it so, without the data, and there it also depends on whether raw data is used or “adjusted” data.
And records from when? Often when looking at “from when” a particular record has been reliably known to have been kept is but a brief bit of all human history. And what are real earth weather and climate cycles in; periods of a century or so?; no, thousands of years.
At lot of references to “normal” is only so far as a particular record has been kept; which in most cases, as I said is but a brief period in time.
In general, how long has the earth been warming and the seas generally rising? SINCE THE END OF THE LAST ICE AGE.
Even then, we are not likely as warm yet as during the age when Greenland was farmed by the Vikings; and how in the hell did that happen with CO2 that was much lower??
“Currently India, Nepal, and Bangladesh are being hit by the most extreme floods seen in the region for more than a decade. “
For more than a decade merely means at least a decade ago they had such flooding; and likely before that, and sometime before that; and sometime before that; ext., ect., ect.
Are there more than 5000 places which can flood? You tell me. Of such places, for how many do we have accurate records for rainfall and flooding going back significant multiples of 500 years such that we can even determine what constitutes a 500-year event?
I will have to go watch Al Gores inconvenient video in order to determine whether we should expect floods or droughts. I do know that the number of hurricanes in the U.S. during the last ten or fifteen years is dramatically lower than predicted.
Locally we just had a heat wave. (It is summer afterall.) I read that we had the hottest day in 90 years. How am I supposed to be impressed with global warming when I read that the weather was just as hot 90 years ago as today?
I hear a lot about the problems with ice loss in Antarctica recently. What happened to the Arctic that I don't hear predictions lately that it will become ice free year round?
I could do better predicting climate change by rolling dice. Every time the dice turn up snake-eyes, I will predict climate catastrophe. If anything else turns up, I will simply wait until the next roll. One clue that we are being played is that the con-artists are cooking the books and faking the data. If a global catastrophe was really upon us that would not be necessary.