Floods a wake-up call to planet

Reuters ^ | 8-27-02

[o_zarkman44]

"Watson said as the globe heats up rainfall would become heavier and more frequent in areas where it already rains a lot while arid areas would suffer from more droughts. On the positive side, crop yields would increase in more temperate zones, such as Europe and North America, but this would be offset by a decrease in the tropical zones where many of the world's poor live. "

Heaven forbid that the breadbasket of the world gain higher crop yields at the expense of the worlds poor people. The one thing that science would like us to think they have a handle on is predicting the weather over a long range (years). The fact is our local weather people can't predict the weather more than 4 or 5 days in advance, and usually with about an accuracy of 50 to 60%.

So the science of predicting weather trends is very innacurate. I wonder what they think will happen to the weather patterns with 20 million acres of forest burning in America this summer? Since trees eat carbon dioxide there has been a net loss in the atmosphere. Now compare that to the overall gains that could have been realized if say 20% of the trees had been selectively harvested to control the spread of wildfires. Not only could have we benefitted from the wood products harvested, but we would still have 80% of the trees eating carbon dioxide instead of needlessly producing more.

This kind of environmental science seems to make as much sense as throwing the baby out with the bathwater. And those environmental scientists are supposed to be intellectuals? It is Very hard to predict the overall environmental picture with the narrow minded view shared by the so called intellectuals.

[Salgak]

More importantly, the floods USED to be absorbed by thousands of acres of meadows on either side of the river.
NOW, you have concrete banks, and buildings right up to the river, and no land to absorb the flooding. OF COURSE the floods will be catastrophic, and ARE man-caused. But Global Warming has nothing to do with it. . . .

[AdA$tra]

We are NOT in control of the weather.

Not only are we not in control of the weather, but we cannot accurately predict tomorrow's weather. The same genuis minds think they can predict trends in the CLIMATE. They base it all on the data we have collected in a blink of the eye as far as history is concerned. Not to mention having a political agenda to slant the results.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

And after a flood, our tax money goes to rebuild private homes built in flood plains, over and over again.

[Mike Darancette]

Floods prove "global warming." Droughts too. And cold winters. And warm winters. And cold summers and warm summers. Everything proves global warming. Everything.

Sounds like we are dealing with some type of organized religion here.