Posted on 06/08/2019 5:53:03 PM PDT by PROCON
Angel Portillo doesn't think about climate change much. It's not that he doesn't care. He's just got other things to worry about. Climate change seems so far away, so big.
Lately though, Portillo says he's been thinking about it more often.
Standing on the banks of a swollen and surging Arkansas River, just upriver from a cluster of flooded businesses and homes, it's easy to see why.
"Stuff like this," he says, nodding at the frothy brown waters, "all of the tornadoes that have been happening - it just doesn't seem like a coincidence, you know?"
A string of natural disasters has hit the central U.S. in recent weeks. Tornadoes have devastated communities, tearing up trees and homes. Record rainfall has prevented countless farmers in America's breadbasket from planting crops. Rising rivers continue to flood fields, inundate homes and threaten aging levees from Iowa to Mississippi.
And while none of these events can be directly attributed to climate change, extreme rains are happening more frequently in many parts of the U.S. and that trend is expected to continue as the Earth continues to warm.
For many of the people living in the affected areas, the connection feels clear.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
OK, I’m in. They can have my 401k to save the planet. Is anyone else with me?
No Al Gore owes us the apologies, after warning everyone about Globull warming, he spent the money he got telling everyone on a private jet and a 14 room mansion, living a carbon foot print the size of a small town.
By his own standards he is the most evil man on earth.
Tommy Rott!
Ted Danson said unless we DO SOMETHING both coasts will be under water within 10 yrs. Of course he said this in 1988. Too bad he can’t go back to his old gig as Sam the bartender in Cheers. At least that was somewhat entertaining.
The depraved left is so crazy they demand to be ushered into power anytime the weather is bad.
Doomed. We’re all doomed. Change the song from “As My Guitar Gently Weeps,” to “As My Guitar Grimly Weeps.”
Well, Mr. Portillo’s first name may be “Angel”, but, he’s a damn ignoramus (courtesy of our even more damnable education system, I suppose). If he’s actually concerned, he ought to study some Natural History!
Not until Al gives up his mansions and private jets.
And just how long has M. Portillo been in this country? How old is he?
He seems very ignorant of soring weather in the US.
Worse, they want to quash and silence any dissent.
We see this fascism daily on the social media platforms.
Yes, they want us imprisoned for not going along with their lies and hoaxes.
The Great Flood of 1862
“The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest flood in the recorded history of Oregon, Nevada, and California, occurring from December 1861 to January 1862, caused by an ARkStorm.
It was preceded by weeks of continuous rains and snows in the very high elevations that began in Oregon in November 1861 and continued into January 1862.
This was followed by a record amount of rain from January 9–12, and contributed to a flood that extended from the Columbia River southward in western Oregon, and through California to San Diego, and extended as far inland as Idaho in the Washington Territory, Nevada and Utah in the Utah Territory, and Arizona in the western New Mexico Territory.
The ARkStorm dumped an equivalent of 10 feet of rainfall in California, in the form of rain and snow, over a period of 43 days....
...It has been described as the worst disaster ever to strike California...
... In 2012, hydrologists and meteorologists concluded that the precipitation was likely caused by a series of atmospheric rivers that hit the Western United States along the entire West Coast, from Oregon to Southern California...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862
We lived in Port Jervis, NY, where the Delaware and Neversink Rivers meet. For all intents and purposes that entire city is a flood zone. The name Neversink comes from an old Algonquin phrase meaning, appropriately enough, RAGING RIVER. Surely there are accounts in local Native lore of some major flooding in the area long before any Whites settled there.
Where’s the Goebbels’ picture.
And in 1977, the rivers were so low, water rationing was started in Farmington.
We lost everything in the Tulsa floods of 1976. The brutal fall and winter of 1976-77 was used as proof of THE COMING ICE AGE!
Chicago was supposed to be under a mile of ice by now.
More people building in Floodplains will give you more flooding
I still remember the great 1957 flood of the Arkansas River hitting Tulsa. This was before Keystone Dam was built.
Climate alarmists all over the planet have one agenda and that is to bilk the United States treasury. Period.
Climate alarmists all over the planet have one agenda and that is to bilk the United States treasury. Period.
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