Climate kooks take advantage of recent flooding
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An analysis of global rainfall trends over the past 200 years published by The Heritage Foundation earlier this year concludes that “global rainfall trends and extremes do not align with a global systematic change that could be attributed to a single driver, such as rising carbon-dioxide emissions.”
“Rainfall doesn’t follow a regular pattern—it goes up and down in unpredictable ways and varies a lot from place to place,” Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of Heritage’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment, told The Daily Signal. “Because of this, scientists use models that deal with randomness to study it.”
“While changes in local and regional rainfall are important for managing water and preparing for floods or droughts, there’s no strong evidence yet of a global trend in rainfall or a worldwide increase in extreme events that can be clearly linked to human-caused climate change,” she added.
Mario Loyola, a senior fellow in law, economics, and technology at Heritage, noted that even the National Climate Assessment—a federal government initiative focused on climate science that Loyola faulted as “alarmist”—“dismisses the attribution of any particular severe weather event to climate change.”
“For as long as people have kept records, Texas has always had periods of drought punctuated by severe rains and flash floods,” Loyola added. “It is irresponsible to use the tragedy of the Texas floods for political gain.”
“It’s sad to see the radical climate movement trying to exploit the tragic Texas flooding to advance its political agenda,” Steve Milloy, a senior policy fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, told The Daily Signal.
“Just for the record, this area of Texas is known for flash floods, extreme rainfall is not correlated with emissions and there hasn’t even been any ‘global warming’ over the past five days,” he quipped. “We should pray for the families and condemn the climate ambulance chasers.”
Anthony Watts, a senior fellow at the Heartland Institute, emphasized the area around Camp Mystic, a Christian all-girls camp at which 27 campers and counselors died after the nearby Guadalupe River flooded.
“Camp Mystic is built on a floodplain—therefore flooding is to be expected as part of natural weather variations,” Watts told The Daily Signal. “It is on sediment that has been deposited by hundreds, if not thousands of floods over the last millennium.”
“The flood was caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Barry becoming embedded into a broad mid-level trough over Central Texas,” he added. “These remnant lows are typically slow-moving and drop heavy rain over a large geographical area where the troposphere destabilizes.”
This “caused massive flooding along the Guadalupe River, something that has happened many times before,” Watts added. He noted that a flash flood on the same river killed 10 teenage campers at the Pot O Gold Christian Camp in 1987 and swept away another 33 campers who survived.
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It would be advisable to not have young people camping in a floodplain. The flooding was not the result of climate change or global warming. Storms come and go, and that has always happened and will happen again.
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