Yes, this flooding is weather. But, climate change will make flooding more frequent and more disastrous, so get ready to start hearing stories like this with increasing regularity.
Originally shared by Gary Rudd
Paging Senator Inhofe... Senator Inhofe.... Please return your snowball to the front desk immediately
The Mississippi River is flooding in a big way right now, at the wrong time of year, and is forecasted to match or break 22-year-old crest records over the next few days. Meteorologists are calling it “insane.”
http://www.newsweek.com/mississippi-river-about-have-record-flood-completely-out-season-409818
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
Unfortunately, you are correct.
ReplyDeleteWe have been having more and more floodings and just look at the situation in England right now.
Free sandbags for everyone..
ReplyDeleteThe Scariest Part of This Season’s Weird Weather Is Coming Soon
ReplyDeletehttp://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/12/the_storm_that_caused_tornadoes_will_heat_the_north_pole.html
Tornadoes, floods, and a heat wave at the North Pole.
Here are a few snipetts from the article.... You can't make this stuff up...
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While this month’s extreme weather isprimarily due to an atmosphere supercharged by the record-breaking El Niño, it’s also an example of the kind of unnerving meteorological event that’s becoming more likely as climate change plays an increasingly large role in daily weather. The New York Timescalled it “a fitting end to the warmest year on record.” Together, El Niño and climate change have combined for a year unlike any other in human history—a harbinger of an altered planet.
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On Wednesday, the North Pole will be warmer than Western Texas, Southern California, and parts of the Sahara.
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Infact, at the exact same time that tornadoes were bearing down on Dallas, a record-setting blizzard was burying cars under snowdrifts 10 feet deep on the western side of Texas. Snow fell as far south as northern Mexico. The system also helped bring record-breaking freezing weather to southern California, a fierce ice storm to Chicago and Michigan, and the first significant New England snowfall of the season—just two days after temperatures climbed into the 70s as far north as Vermont. The Wall Street Journal calledthe juxtaposition of weather extremes “freakish.”
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In the United Kingdom, recent record rains have caused flooding that’s prompted a political firestorm as the country struggles with the aftermath. In South America, the worst flooding in 50 years has hit parts of Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Meanwhile, drought and famine threaten Ethiopia, and Australia has suffered a record-setting heat wave. Earlier this year, a prolonged drought in Indonesia sparked a nightmare of forest firesthat blanketed the region in smoke.
This, more than any other extreme weather event in a remarkable year for the climate, feels like something new. This midwinter melt at the North Pole is a preview of what’s to come later this century—in fact, the temperature anomalies match almost exactly with what is predicted. The long-feared worst-case climate change scenario, which, thankfully was made less likely by the Paris agreement earlier this month, projects an ice-free Arctic within decades. Storms like this week’s are exactly the type of events that do the dirty work of ushering in that world. In the meantime, we’re running on the knife’s edge as a civilization, dodging warning signs and hoping for a planetary miracle.
This is some damn freakish stuff. I'm in Ohio and my grass is still green on Dec 30th. We had almost 70 degrees the other day. It's not possible to say we're normal, and things haven't been affected by climate change.
ReplyDeleteWake up, folks
Cherie Ambrose Ohio isn't normal, so it's completely fine. :-)
ReplyDeleteBrandon B. hahaha!
ReplyDeleteWhatcha tryin' to say? ;-)
To all climate change deniers, out there. Mother Natures coming for you!
ReplyDeleteclimate changes EVERY day, EVERY where...
ReplyDeleteJohn Robinson no that would be weather .. climate is by definition a measurement of averages over much longer time spans. Its WARM at the North Pole this week but you wouldn't say the climate at the North Pole is warm (well not yet)
ReplyDeleteI live in tornado alley, midwest USA and outlasted a hurricane on the east coast. I'm going with Mother Nature also.
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