Posted on 01/20/2023 2:36:27 AM PST by blueplum
California is reeling from a devastating series of powerful winter storms that pummeled the state, killing at least 21 people, and crumbled hillsides and damaged thousands of homes.
Many media figures and officials were quick to blame global warming as the culprit...
Some experts are saying the recent storms weren’t necessarily the result of global warming. The Los Angeles Times interviewed multiple climate researchers who suggested that the recent storms had more to do with the state’s well-documented historic drought-to-deluge cycles...
California’s official climatologist, Mike Anderson, meanwhile, told The Times that "each of the recent atmospheric rivers were within the historical distribution of sizes of atmospheric rivers."..
Jayme Laber, senior hydrologist for the National Weather Service in Los Angeles, told The Times, "It was nothing as big as what we’ve gone through before." ....
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About half say climate change. The other half say no. Our country is split down the center on everything.
Yeah and didn’t California tear down a bunch of these dams that were made into catchments for this rain water Which now just ran off into the ocean and is not gonna really help their drought at all now.
Climatechangeglobalwarmingglobalcooling is a scam.
*Nothing* is linked to the global warming hoax except for Leftist climate hysteria.
Cool. What else isn’t linked to global warming? We need to start our own list.
I’m all enough to have got a school grown up in the 70s and global cooling was the thing then the next ice age, So yeah it’s a huge scam
I lived in California for 66 years, drought followed by floods is definitely the normal California weather. I remember the good old days when weather was just weather and not some idiotic political statement.
Given the capabilities of CGI these days, one could make a heck of a movie about the 1862 CA flood...
As a fellow FR member pointed out, the storm of 1862 was much bigger.
Hairy ticks! Hairy ticks! Burn’m at the stake!
And it will be hard for the climate-hysterics to accept that weather isn’t a fixed constant event.
The weather Nazis never miss a chance to enhance their funds:
California faces catastrophic flood dangers — and a need to invest billions in protection!
The storms that have been battering California offer a glimpse of the catastrophic floods that scientists warn will come in the future and that the state is unprepared to endure.
Giant floods like those that inundated the Central Valley in 1861 and 1862 are part of California’s natural cycle, but the latest science shows that the coming megafloods, intensified by climate change, will be much bigger and more destructive than anything the state or the country has ever seen.
A new state flood protection plan for the Central Valley presents a stark picture of the dangers. It says catastrophic flooding would threaten millions of Californians, putting many areas underwater and causing death and destruction on an unprecedented scale. The damage could total as much as $1 trillion.
The plan, approved last month, calls for $25 billion to $30 billion in investments over the next 30 years in the Central Valley, and outlines recommendations that include strengthening levees and restoring natural floodplains along rivers.
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