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 ...
I recall reading scientists discovered, in the sediment records, that this sort of flood repeatedly happened in California, with about 150 years between occurrences.
In other words, we are about due for another one.
The central valleys were under water.
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Total damn BS!!!
There was massive flooding in the area here when my mother brought me home from the hospital. It happens. People don’t recognize that the Earth has cycles. Hell, they don’t know that the sun has cycles (of 11 years).
Our misinformation media, citing all the 'experts', purposely keeps folks dumbed-down.
Man-made climate change has never been about climate change, it's always been about power and establishing control over the masses.
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You left out The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.
With 27,000 square miles inundated up to a depth of 30 feet.
Randy Newman - Louisiana 1927
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGs2iLoDUYE
EVERY time we have record snows or bitter cold, the Warmists and media deride us when we say it disproves Global Warming because “Weather is NOT climate!”
Yet here they are...
Weather—it’s not climate, NPR!
But, but, but.....he told us it would come from the rising sea.
thanks for the vid...
Interesting info.
So Angel Portello couldn’t cross the Rio due to Global Warming?
And yet the cool, wet spring is the cause...
Propaganda obviously works.
Meanwhile, more of experience longer winters and sometimes record snowfall winters more lately, but no one writes articles stating, “record winters clearly refute warming”.
Like there has NEVER been floods before, or hurricanes, or tornados before now.
These glo-bull warming loons are idiots.
They must have missed the Washington Post, no less, tornado report about 2018:
See my post #57.
“In other words, we are about due for another one.”
Yep. And if our elected officials had any value they would be building infrastructure that could keep an ARkStorm from destroying California.
OTOH, that may be what it takes to send the 3rd world running back home.
Oh well, it’s from NPR (National Progressive Retards) .... it’s got to be fake.
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