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The New York
Times published a story immediately, “Flooding
in the South Looks a Lot Like Climate Change,” blaming the flood on the global
warming hoax created by the very profitable climate change industry.
Al Gore
said, “These kinds of record downpours – that’s one of the manifestations of
the climate crisis.” The community of
Watson had a record 31.39 inches of rain during the downpour. http://fuelfix.com/blog/2016/08/16/al-gore-houston-louisiana-floods-exacerbated-by-climate-change/
Nicolas
Loris points to two studies by climatologists Patrick Michaels and Paul
Knappenberger that seem to contradict Al Gore and the New York Times. In the
Daily Signal, Loris quoted Chip Knappenberger, “Lower Louisiana is a
climatologically prime location for massive precipitation amounts.” http://dailysignal.com/2016/08/17/the-facts-show-louisianas-floods-not-caused-by-man-made-climate-change/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTWpkbU1tVmtZekZqT1RkaiIsInQiOiJPUysySWxTWEgxN082M1lORWV1UjZVcGRCRW9PTFZuUWlHUVlSazhqTEhwZE1pTUliNnRxMzFhaWpPSTNLMWNIWnNwc29BaDd1cnpyQm1HNjNrM2VtK0xFSXNFYmRIWGhaT1J4b1ZcL09sN0k9In0%3D
Patrick Michael’s
and Chip Knappenberger’s paper reported, ”Our findings indicate that the
climate variability of both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans can exert a large
control on the precipitation frequency and magnitude over the contiguous USA.” http://www.cato.org/blog/you-ought-have-look-natural-climate-variability
In a second
paper, by a research team at NOAA/GFDL, Karin van der Wiel et al, who analyzed “climate
model projections and observed trends in heavy precipitation events across the
United States,” wrote, “Finally, the observed record and historical model
experiments were used to investigate changes in the recent past. In part
because of large intrinsic variability, no evidence was found for changes in
extreme precipitation attributable to climate change in the available observed
record.” http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0307.1
Iman
Malakpour and Gabrielle Villarini, researchers at the University of Iowa, wrote
about their study, Analysis of
changes in the magnitude, frequency, and seasonality of heavy precipitation
over the contiguous USA, that “over the last 65 years, the
stronger storms are not getting stronger, but a larger number of heavy
precipitation events have been observed. The annual maximum precipitation and
annual frequency of heavy precipitation reveal a marked seasonality over the
contiguous USA.” http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00704-016-1881-z
Knappenberger
mentioned the NOAA study of June 1978 when the main stream media focused then
on the next ice age and global cooling, not global warming. The 100-page document described the various
levels of tropical storm precipitation, moisture, and rainfall around the
country. http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hdsc/PMP_documents/HMR51.pdf
Even the United
Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported, “In
summary, there continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding
the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global
scale.” http://www.climatechange2013.org/images/report/WG1AR5_Chapter02_FINAL.pdf
But before
Al Gore’s global warming movie and the profitable global climate change industry,
there was the flood of August 18, 1931, when the Yangtze River peaked and
killed 3.7 million people “directly and indirectly over the next several
months,” as reported by the History Channel in 2009.
In April
1931 China the rainfall was above average. Torrential rains in July exacerbated
the previous conditions and the Yangtze River flooded a 500-square mile area.
Waters continued to rise in August as more rain fell and flooded the rice
fields, destroying the crop. The population of the adjoining cities who
depended on the rice crop starved to death or died from typhoid and dysentery
from the polluted river, “perhaps the worst natural disaster of the 20th
century.”
This Chinese
region is densely populated and thus people depend on the Yangtze River for
water for personal and farming needs. Millions died from starvation and disease
simply because flood-control measures were not enforced. The Yangtze River “carries large amount of
sediment, which accumulates in certain areas of the river and must be cleared
regularly, However, with much of the area’s resources devoted to civil war at
the time, the river was neglected.” http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/yangtze-river-peaks-in-china
The facts
that natural disasters occur for reasons other than global warming, such as
oceanic currents and underwater volcanic eruptions, are inconvenient details
for the environmental/green growth agenda.
Emails were just leaked showing that Gore is being paid millions by Soros's foundation to push climate change.
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