Real Climate Science

Many people learned this week that flood plains flood.

They might have learned this in school, except that their teachers were too busy teaching them about the dangers of CO2.

Officials Say Nearly 19,000 Homes Damaged, Destroyed In Flooding « CBS Denver

The vast majority of those 19,000 homes suffered water damage to carpets and things on the floor. Less than 10% were destroyed.

By contrast, the 1990 hailstorm damaged every single house in Denver.

The City of Fort Collins and the local newspaper have made all kinds of claims of record stream flow and 1,000 year floods.

The record stream flow claim was based on a faulty flood gauge. Note the equipment malfunction on September 13.

USGS Current Conditions for USGS 06752260 CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER AT FORT COLLINS, CO

Originally it looked like this, showing 14.5 feet – but it never got above 10.5 feet.

The 1,000 year flood claim was just the usual global warming bullshit from NOAA. According to USGS it was a 100 year flood, not a 1,000 year flood.

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

100-year-flood: Boulder rainfall records swamped in dueling weather systems – Boulder Daily Camera

Will these bogus claims be retracted?  Not likely, because global warming misinformation never gets retracted.

Here in the US, we were taught that Soviets were evil imperialists who wanted to take over the US.

In the Soviet Union, people were taught that Americans were evil imperialists who wanted to take over the Soviet Union.

Until we get rid of idiot leaders like Barack Obama who are constantly trying to score political points by spreading fear, division, and mistrust – things are not going to get better.

“I don’t think that Mr. Putin has the same values that we do,” Obama said in response to Putin’s controversial op-ed.

Obama Rejects Criticism of Shifting Syria Policy: ‘I’m Less Concerned About Style Points’ – ABC News

Hopefully I will never meet anyone who shares Obama’s complete lack of any commendable values. And who is he referring to when he says “we?”

Had Bush signed Kyoto, Colorado would be a very different place right now.

Temperatures during the Broncos – Raven playoff match would have been -17.68ºC instead of -17.67ºC, and that might have caused the Broncos to go on and win the Super Bowl.

On the other hand, if Al Gore had won the 2000 election – he might have sold the US to the United Arab Emirates for $500 million.

If there were a thousand dead bodies floating down Boulder Creek, I’m guessing that one of the 20,000 or so people gawking at the creek this weekend might have noticed.

Giving society cheap, abundant energy … would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.

– Paul Ehrlich, “An Ecologist’s Perspective on Nuclear Power”, May/June 1978 issue of Federation of American Scientists Public Issue Report

Global warming is hitting us hard here today. All that fossil fuel powered super-heated unseasonably cold air holds excess moisture, which is producing summer snow east of the Continental Divide.

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I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.

– Paul Watson, founder of Greenpeace  (Access to Energy, Vol. 10, No. 4, Dec 1982)