From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Paul Kolk
Naturally the lazy journalist blames it on global warming!
The heaviest snow melt in decades has burst rivers across Siberia and north Kazakhstan, flooding cities and forcing tens of thousands of people to flee.
At least eight people have died and hundreds of livestock have drowned in an area the size of western Europe.
A state of emergency has been declared in 10 of Kazakhstan’s 17 regions and Russian officials have evacuated the city of Orsk after a dam burst.
In a video addressing the nation on Saturday evening, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Kazakh president, described the floods as the worst in 80 years.
“A natural disaster occurred, the likes of which had not been seen for many years,” he said.
Rising temperatures linked to global warming have melted snow more quickly than usual in mountainous areas and on the steppe, sending tonnes of water downstream.
Several towns in north Kazakhstan first raised the alarm last week as swollen rivers burst and dams failed. This week, the city of Aktobe, near Russia, flooded.
Scientists have warned that global warming is melting snow in frozen regions faster than rivers can cope and that shorter winter seasons mean that there is more rain.
The winter seasons in the Tien Shan Mountains on the Kazakhstan-China border are now estimated to be two or three weeks shorter than a few years ago.
I note that the Telegraph has banned comments on this article, no doubt knowing the drubbing they would get! They might ask what caused those floods 80 years ago.
The dopey reporter has not worked out that a shorter winter season would mean less snow. Regardless when it actually melts, and this always happens suddenly in spring, a lot of snow equates to a lot of floodwater.
Meanwhile back in the real world, winter snow extent in Eurasia has been steady or growing since the 1960s, and this winter it was close to average. Too much snow is the problem, not too much melting.
https://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/chart_seasonal.php?ui_set=eurasia&ui_season=4
The flooding was made worse by the failure of the Orsk dam in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, and Russians’ diversion of floodwaters toward Kazakhstan. Russia blamed the dam failure on invasion by mice during its construction.
Wow, they didn’t blame it on the Ukrainians?
Or Trump?
The won’t blame Trump- they love Trump.
Sure they do.
No doubt Ukrainian commandos released the mice.
I’d like to see photographs of those mice. I have seen vast hoards of mice during backpacking trips in Dolly Sod’s Wilderness area in WVA in the 1970’s big mice the size of small rates by the thousands…… but can’t build a dam right because of mice. I think of the panama canal.
This is a guaranteed trend for the NH and has really only started. The atmospheric =water over the globe, and particularly the NH, is rising at an impressive rate.
The precession cycle is only 500 years into increasing solar intensity over the NH. It has 9,000 years to go. Think how much snow there has to be to overtake melt. The only place currently achieving that is Greenland. Trending to be 100% permanent ice cover again by 2075.
The climate always changes and always will. Recent interglacials have lasted 12,000 to 15,000 years just like this one will.
A good example of the CAGW Phonies wild swings, from “our children won’t know what snow is” to “the heaviest snow melt in decades.”. Paul asks the right question: They might ask what caused those floods 80 years ago.”
1944? Obviously Nazis. Today it’s neo nazis; same thing, different name, different lies, but Nazis all the same.
Too much snow is the problem, not too much melting.
If too much snow is the problem, why did they not get floods as bad in 2003 and 1977 when the snow was even greater? There must be another explanation. Maybe what Milo says is more important than the quantity of snow.
The mouse plague might have been caused by climate change.
That’s the ticket!
STORY TIP
The world is truly mad. Latest from the BBC
A group of older Swiss women have won the first ever climate case victory in the European Court of Human Rights.
The women, mostly in their 70s, said that their age and gender made them particularly vulnerable to the effects of heatwaves linked to climate change.
The court said Switzerland’s efforts to meet its emission reduction targets had been woefully inadequate.
Why don’t they just identify as males and solve their problem without all this sturm und drang? People always gotta do things the hard way.
Or climb up the mountain 250 meters
As you climb a mountain, you can expect the air temperature to decrease by 6.5° C for every 1000 meters you gain.
Now they are 1.6C cooler.
Too much snow is one of the problems. The major problem is probably shoddy workmanship of the dams and lack of maintenance. I would blame this on climate change too. It’s getting colder and more snow is falling. Not what James Kilner was thinking.
Perspective
https://dailyprogress.com/news/community/greenenews/news/remembering-the-1995-flood/article_6edab9ae-b629-11ea-ae49-7f15490e6a62.html
In 1995, there was a 500 year flood in Green County Virginia on the Rapidan River at the foot of the Shenandoah Mountains. A quiet little Creek that I had fished for smallmouth for a couple of decades was filled with the same volume of water as the Potomac river in D.C within a couple of hours of 6 inches of rain and then 5 more. Giant boulders rolled down out of the mountains in the deluge for miles destroying everything their path. Hundreds of head of cattle were killed and a brand new flood proof bridge on Rt 29 was completely destroyed. A number of people were killed in their homes.
It barely made the Washington Post….. no one remembers the flood because it wasn’t covered in the national news and no one claimed it was caused by climate change or global warming.
At the time, none of us were glued to our disaster reporting smartphones. The endless tech enabled political spin on the weather was still 15 years off.
Now everything is narrative managed and continuous self-righteous stupidity is celebrated with impunity.
It’s just boring as all get out.
It’s not the climate that is terrifying. It’s the brainwashing.
Yes, always boring and truly terrifying.
We see this alarmist fallacy all the time. Worst in n years does not imply thigs are getting worse. They are no worse than they used to be implies they are not getting worse.
The “n” will equal any time frame that lets them use the superlative form of a word.
They do the same thing in political reporting on the issue or candidate they like or against what or who they don’t like.
It never ends.
Was the terrible flood in the Netherlands in 1953 where over 1800 died and over 1300 km2 flooded because of global warming?
Of course not but their solution is the solution that we should be adopting today, namely by adapting. Because of the steps they took and the dykes they built, there has not be a repeat of this in 71 years, yes 71 years. Sometimes floods are a good thing in the long term but also because they reveal the failures of people to sensibly manage and adapt to varying conditions and weather. If one lives in a land that goes from droughts to floods then one can learn to best take advantage of both.