The lesson of California history is not that nature was once benign and humans somehow broke it. The lesson is that California has never been climatically benign.
Category: flooding
Climate Fear Sells: The Telegraph Discovers the ‘Uninsurable’ Home
There is no surer way to unsettle a reader than to tell him that his home, almost always a family’s largest asset, is about to become worthless.
8 Million Properties at Risk of Flooding by Mid-Century –Environment Agency
A British Geological Society study a few years ago found that the affected coasts, mostly Norfolk, Suffolk and East Yorkshire, have been eroding at a similar rate to now for…
Seattle Times Story on Skagit Flooding and Global Warming is Clearly Wrong
The Seattle Times Climate Lab runs a story claiming global warming will create a dangerous situation. A story that is factually incorrect or grossly exaggerated. And it happened again yesterday…
Nepal Wants a $5 Billion Climate Handout from UN for a Himalayan Bedrock Collapse
Nepal’s request should be rejected unless the U.N. would likewise fund U.S. recovery from a San Andreas earthquake or Cascadia tsunami.
The Ghoulish Race to Turn Nepal’s Flood Victims Into a ‘Climate Crisis’ Talking Point
The political talking point ignores tens of millions of years of plate tectonics and its consequences, and completely dismisses well-established mountain-weather dynamics.
Live at 1PM ET: Nepal Disaster – The Climate Realism Show #214
The scenes coming out of Nepal of the glacier collapse and flash flood of mud, ice, and water are horrifying. The amount of devastation is almost hard to fathom, and…
Post Brexit Britain Still isn’t Dredging Canals to Stop the Floods
Joined up thinking doesn’t appear to be a feature of post Brexit waterway management.
No, Al-Jazeera, Climate Change Hasn’t Altered African Flood and Drought Patterns
By presenting interviews and moment-in-time scenes as confirmation of a continent-wide climate verdict, Al Jazeera is misleading its audience by making a causal connection where data show none. Africa’s vulnerability…
The Worst Flood in British History – 1953
I don’t think anybody alive today can have the slightest understanding of the fortitude and determination shown by people in those days, who lived through events like this flood, the…
From Storm to Scare Story: How The Guardian Wrongly Claimed Climate Change Caused a ‘Climate Breakdown’
By implying that a heartbreaking family tragedy is proof of global climate collapse, The Guardian irresponsibly misleads its readers, substituting emotional persuasion and advocacy with scientific rigor. Readers deserve factual reporting complete…
Pakistan’s Deadly Floods Are Not Worsened by Climate Change, BBC
The BBC turned the piece that could have been a rational criticism of corruption that leads to major infrastructure issues and human deaths into a propaganda piece that pushes the…
Attribution Studies Don’t Prove Anything About South Africa’s Floods, Phys.org
Instead of beginning with the assumption that climate change is making flooding worse in places like Durban, scientists should approach the issue more modestly. It is worthwhile to try to…
Texas Flood Hysteria: Media’s Climate Blame Drowned by History and Data
Facts say this was a natural event that has happened before and the facts remain unchanged; floods have always been part of life in Texas Hill Country and always will…
The Texas Flooding Tragedy: Could It Have Been Avoided?
Any media or other organization suggesting that the National Weather Service was not on top of this event is not only not telling the truth, but doing a deep disservice…
Guardian: “Choose your news” Media is Contributing to Climate Inaction
“… If there’s no common framework, there can be no consensus commitments. …”
Mainstream Media Blames Climate Change for Nigeria’s Floods, Ignores Urban Planning Failures
In order to emphasize a speculative climate connection, the AP and NBC completely ignored glaring urban infrastructure issues that other outlets have rightly recognized as being the main factors in…
Study: Ancient Megafloods Dwarf Today’s Extremes — But You Won’t Hear That on the Evening News
Paleoclimate records reveal prehistoric floods that far exceed anything we see today — undermining claims that modern flooding is “unprecedented” or driven solely by climate change.
Climate change will devastate value of homes, warns Bank of England
Certainly there is a problem with uninsurable properties, but this is due to them being built on flood plains, not climate change. Surely the Bank should be more concerned about…
6.3 Million Properties At Risk Of Flooding–Say Env Agency
Naturally the media has gone into full alarmist mode. Sky News, for instance, tried to link all of this to climate change, with emotive language like “sudden rain, crashing seas…