Trenberth Claims Floods Are Worse Now. Did He Actually Do Any Research?

12 Responses to Trenberth Claims Floods Are Worse Now. Did He Actually Do Any Research?

1. Jimbo says:

   April 11, 2011 at 8:32 am

   Met Office – 14 January 2011

   “In some parts of the world severe flooding is occurring, as very heavy rain and landslides affect regions of Australia, Brazil and much of Sri Lanka.

   Some speculation has surrounded the meteorological reasons for the severe weather, these include a near record La Niña event with colder than normal ocean waters in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
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   Meanwhile, the flooding and landslides in southern parts of Brazil are thought not to be directly associated with La Niña. These extreme conditions can be put down to the variable nature of our global weather patterns.”
   http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2011/La-Nina-impacts

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   • Jimbo says:

     April 11, 2011 at 8:35 am

     Floods:
     1887, September-October
     Hwang Ho (Yellow) River, China
     over 900,000 deaths.
     http://library.thinkquest.org/C003603/english/flooding/tenworst.shtml

     I want to see Trenberth’s evidence.

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     • Jimbo says:

       April 11, 2011 at 8:40 am

       Why does the press give people like Trenberth such an easy ride to spread disinformation?

       “Have disaster losses increased due to anthropogenic climate change?”
       “Analyses show that, although economic losses from weather-related hazards have increased, anthropogenic climate change so far did not have a significant impact on losses from natural disasters. The observed loss increase is caused primarily by increasing exposure and value of capital at risk.”
       http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/2010BAMS3092.1

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     • Paul H says:

       April 11, 2011 at 11:39 am

       I paid £25000 for my house in 1980. It is now worth £250000.

       10 times more, but still the same house.

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2. Boris says:

   April 11, 2011 at 5:24 pm

   You really researched the hell out of that one March 28th flood in Ohio and Indiana. Probably haven’t been any floods since then. Way to show them scientists how it’s done!

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   • suyts says:

     April 11, 2011 at 11:15 pm

     lol, Boris, the assertion is that we’re setting records now. Because the earth is the hottest evuh!

     http://www.ripleyohio.net/htm/flood.htm

     18 instances here where the Ohio crested above 60 ft.

     It wasn’t that hard.

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     • glacierman says:

       April 12, 2011 at 4:16 pm

       Floods caused by coldwet do not count.

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   • suyts says:

     April 11, 2011 at 11:18 pm

     Here’s one for Wheeling/Pittsburgh. Shows about 100 floods.

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     • suyts says:

       April 11, 2011 at 11:20 pm

       lol forgot the link……

       http://wheeling.weirton.lib.wv.us/history/events/floods/floods.htm

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3. Andy Weiss says:

   April 11, 2011 at 10:56 pm

   Yes, Boris is right. You are cherry picking. You are not showing any headlines for all the days that there were no floods, droughts, blizzards, hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves, cold waves or epidemics.

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4. Sparks says:

   April 11, 2011 at 11:14 pm

   Has Trenberth ever heard about the catastrophic biblical floods that nearly all ancient cultures speak about in their writings and religious scriptures, to claim that floods Are worse now is a complete ignorant lie, there is plenty of archeological evidence of great floods in earths history, there are too many to mention in our recent past.

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5. PhilJourdan says:

   April 12, 2011 at 8:12 pm

   Science is the anathema to the religion of CAGW. So the answer is – of course not! Why confuse the dogma with the facts?

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