Midwest floods show signs of global warming
Tue Jul 1, 2008 8:56pm BST
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent
WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - Floods like those that inundated the U.S. Midwest are supposed to occur once every 500 years but this is the second since 1993, suggesting flawed forecasts that do not take global warming into account, conservation experts said on Tuesday.
Two floods, 15 years apart does not suggest anything Ms Zabarenko. Apparently the environmental/green folks are under some delusion that the earth is one big systematic machine. "Well if someone says that we only are supposed to get a flood every 500 years and we get one every decade, it must be global warming!" Look folks, the earth isn't a computer program that cycles with pinpoint accuracy. From a 500 year vantage point there "may" be some semblence of order, but statistically speaking there is no way to decipher any weather trends from 15 years of data.
"Although no single weather event can be attributed to global warming, it's critical to understand that a warming climate is supplying the very conditions that fuel these kinds of weather events," said Amanda Staudt, a climate scientist with the National Wildlife Federation.
This is what I love about these people. They refute their own arguments. In this article it only took until we got to the first sentence of the second paragraph. She admits that "no single weather event can be attributed to global warming..." But wait, in her opening sentences she just said that global warming was responsible for the flooding. So what it is?
Good stuff I tell you. The sad thing is that there are people that read this stuff and actually believe it. If you want to read te rest of this article, you can find it here:
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