Increased flooding driven by climate change: study

Yahoo ^ | 2/16/11 | Marlowe Hood - AFP

[NormsRevenge]

AP : Scientists connect global warming to extreme rain

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110216/ap_on_sc/us_sci_climate_floods

WASHINGTON – Two studies in the journal Nature link global warming to extreme rainstorms and snowfalls and find these weather events are getting substantially worse.

One study found that the strongest precipitation events were 7 percent wetter in the 1990s than they were in the 1950s. The other looked at costly flooding in England and Wales in the fall of 2000 and found that global warming more than doubled the likelihood of that flood occurring. Both studies used computer modeling.

[samtheman]

BS

[jimt]

To put it simply, BS ! To read the details, try

[NormsRevenge]

but but.. It was real dry when I was there.. years ago

Both studies computer modeled.

Saudi men cross on foot a flooded street following heavy rain in Jeddah. Ten people have been killed and three others gone missing in three days of flooding due to heavy rains in the Red Sea city of Jeddah. (AFP/Amer Hilabi)

[JaguarXKE]

X10

[SQUID]

Climate is supposed to change; what arrogance to assume we can put a thermostat on nature

[mmercier]

Anyone who believes that human activity can effect global weather patterns should go out and swing a stick at a tornado.

[NormsRevenge]

I hope it doesn't rain for the Olympics.

A woman wades across a flooded area of Jardim Itaim neighbourhood, eastern outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, on January 2011. Global warming driven by human activity boosted the intensity of rain, snow and consequent flooding in the northern hemisphere over the last half of the 20th century, research released Wednesday has shown. (AFP/File/Mauricio Lima)

[TribalPrincess2U]

Peeing contributes to climate change.

You are no longer free to pee.

0’s health lords deem it so.

[rockinqsranch]

“PARIS (AFP)”

Bad Champagne with too many of those snails.

[BitWielder1]

Is it possible that modern communication technology makes us record events that previously went unnoticed?
Or that the population increase affects the probability that human settlements are hit and thus the weather event is noticed.

[mo]

Yeah yeah...and if its NOT “climate change” it MUST be “Bush’s fault” /s

these liberal sponges are so predictable.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

The main driver was simply more water in the air. "In a warmer world the atmosphere has greater moisture-holding capacity," he explained.

Ummm...so why is the same supposed-phenomenom (global warming) blamed for the drought and very dry conditions in the Colorado River basin?

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[babble-on]

also causes drought. Whatever bad happens, in fact, is cause by human CO2 emissions.

[Sherman Logan]

A woman wades across a flooded area of Jardim Itaim neighbourhood, eastern outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, on January 2011. Global warming driven by human activity boosted the intensity of rain, snow and consequent flooding in the northern hemisphere over the last half of the 20th century, research released Wednesday has shown.

I do believe Sao Paulo is in the southern hemisphere.

[Sherman Logan]

A woman wades across a flooded area of Jardim Itaim neighbourhood, eastern outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, on January 2011. Global warming driven by human activity boosted the intensity of rain, snow and consequent flooding in the northern hemisphere over the last half of the 20th century, research released Wednesday has shown.

I do believe Sao Paulo is in the southern hemisphere.

[NRA1995]

So, water is wetter when the world is warmer......good T-shirt slogan.....

[NRA1995]

All I see here are statements, no facts. Of course, when did facts matter to these stupid lemmings?