Sometime in the next few hours or minutes, climate alarmists will start blaming the California flooding on “climate change.” As always, they are lying.
One hundred fifty-five years ago, the eastern US was preoccupied with the Civil War. But in California they had massive flood which bankrupted the state and forced the capital to be moved for a long period of time out of Sacramento. The weather pattern was almost identical to what California is experiencing now.
25 Jan 1862, Page 3 – Daily Ohio Statesman
Central Valley, California, 1861-62 – Top 10 Historic U.S. Floods – TIME
California Megaflood: Lessons from a Forgotten Catastrophe – Scientific American
California’s climate hasn’t changed, and neither has sea level. High tide at La Jolla is exactly the same as it was in 1871.
About 6 hours ago…Warming is Drought…Warming is Rain…Warming is Snow…that’s about all the phases.
https://twitter.com/ClimateSignals/status/818277255788888064
You forgot:
Warming is Hot
Warming is Cold
Warming is Just Right
Warming is “children won’t know what snow is”.
Those are all I can think of.
Also, the old LaJolla photo almost looks like sea level was a little higher back then.
Looks like it is getting very nasty in Nevada and California.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/reports-deadly-storm-cuts-power-to-more-than-20-000-near-san-francisco/70000499
Given Trump’s victory and now this flooding I wonder how the Illegals are going to take these ‘signs’ of ‘heavenly disfavor’?
La Santa Muerte: ‘Patron saint of Narcos’ rattles the Catholic Church
Organized-crime growth and sustainment: a review of the influence of popular religion and beliefs in Mexico — Naval Postgraduate School, Masters thesis unclassified.
With California hiring Eric Holder and already shouting defiance against Trump it could get VERY interesting.
Trump Inspires Defiance — and Optimism — in California Legislature
I think the Good Lord just Trumped the California Legislature’s reassurance. And I am an agnostic. (But I am still praying and thanking Him.)
I remember walking those rocks in La Jolla 20 years ago with my friend, who was witness to my wedding 20 years before that.
He’s been gone 10 years, I miss him.
It is too much to hope for. But I enjoy picturing legislators climbing out of 2nd story windows and having to travel around town in rowboats.
Sport Utility Rowboats? They are, after all, high-flying politicians. No hybrid rowboats for them.
Speaking as someone who’s looked at California climate for years as a hobby, this storm has nothing to do with “climate change” and probably won’t even cause serious flooding, unless its followed up by a series of similar storms. California operates on a 200 year cycle of mega flooding. While floods CAN skip a 200 year period they never do it twice. The flood in 1862 was enormous, so much so that there wasn’t a tide on San Francisco bay for 3 months due to the water pouring out, but even it might not have qualified for the 200 year event. In either case, California could be in for a much much bigger flood sometime this century and it will have NOTHING to do with global climate change.
See http://www.tularebasinwildlifepartners.org/uploads/2/1/4/7/21473344/floods-and-droughts-tulare-lake-basin_2nd_edition_draft_20150407.pdf if you want a full history of California flooding and drought. The author is pretty good about keeping to reporting just history and facts and sites numerous first person accounts, studies and more in his analysis, though he does mention climate change having unforeseeable affects on the pattern.
I’m sure they’ve already announced global warming is to blame for these floods, all the while forgetting that they said global warming and the CO2 temperature knob would create a drought that would never end.
Such short term memory.
Tony don’t forget that 2 months earlier it was Oregon who got hit by a Pineapple wave. Still remember seeing the High Water mark 15′ high on a barn in Champoeg State Park, which was 40 feet above where the river is.
The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest flood in the recorded history of Oregon, Nevada, and California, occurring from December 1861 to January 1862. It was preceded by weeks of continuous rains (or snows in the very high elevations) that began in Oregon in November 1861 and continued into January 1862. This was followed by a record amount of rain from January 9–12, and contributed to a flood which extended from the Columbia River southward in western Oregon, and through California to San Diego, and extended as far inland as Idaho in the Washington Territory, Nevada and Utah in the Utah Territory, and Arizona in the western New Mexico Territory.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/11/30/the-great-flood-of-1862/
Still records to this day and then frequency of Major California floods: Dec. 1867, Feb. 1884, Jan. 1895. But is it really ‘Climate Change’ when it keeps repeating