Much of the popular hysteria about climate is due to government officials exaggerating the historical nature of the event. For example, every time there is a fire in Colorado, the governor tells the press that it is the most destructive fire in Colorado’s history. This misinformation gets spread by CNN and becomes part of the permanent McKibben/Masters/Romm legend – and is repeated by the press thousands of times, despite the fact that there is no truth to it.
It happened again yesterday in Longmont. The USGS called the flood a 100 year event.
Longstanding rainfall records were swept away in what an official with the United States Geological Survey late Thursday confirmed was for Boulder a 100-year flood — although that agency no longer uses that term.
100-year-flood: Boulder rainfall records swamped in dueling weather systems – Boulder Daily Camera
But the city of Longmont wasn’t satisfied with that, so they bumped it up to a 500 year event.
The rising waters, declared a “500-year flood” by city officials
500-year flood nearly cuts Longmont in two, forces evacuations – Longmont Times-Call
NOAA has inflated it from a 100 year flood, to biblical
BOULDER, Colo. — Massive flash flooding along Colorado’s picturesque Front Range mountains, triggered by what the National Weather Service termed “biblical rainfall amounts,’‘ killed at least three people, cut off small towns and forced countless residents to scramble for high ground.
For NOAA, the bible apparently started with Arrhenius
The governor will likely inflate it to unprecedented.
It is a big flood, in a region where the terrain was formed by big floods. In 1921, a fire and flood in Pueblo, Colorado killed 1,200 people.
In 1898, a fire burned up the northwest quadrant of the state.
Was the Biblical flood the first exceptional droughtflood? All those animals must have been farting up a storm.
It is ironic that NOAA would call it biblical.
What happened to the separation of Church and State ? /sarc
Yeah, they should’ve called it Koranic.
Valley sentiment core samples show all the past major floods. If I had time I would dig them up off google, maybe you can Steve. It would smear the word biblical in NOAA’s face.
Biblical flooding and NOAA (Noah) kind of go together, don’t they?
I’m appalled by their arbitrary and unscientific use of language. The proper Marxist term for such events is historically inevitable. They need to study.
Is this still considered to be an area of “extreme drought” ? (Well, we have warm/cold, why not dry/wet? (It’s all part of the New Age of Climate Change!).)