Megadrought may be the main weather concern across the West right now amid the constant threat of wildfires and earthquakes. But a newClimate change is increasing the risk of floods that could submerge cities and displace millions of people across the state, according to a study released Friday.
It says that an extreme monthlong storm could bring feet of rain – in some places, more than 100 inches – to hundreds of miles of California. Similarly unrelenting storms have happened in the past, before the region became home to tens of millions of people. study warns another crisis is looming in California: "Megafloods."
Now, each degree of global warming is dramatically increasing the odds and size of the next megaflood, the study says.
When floods hit in a warmer planet, “the storm sequence is bigger in almost every respect,” said Daniel Swain, UCLA climate scientist and co-author of the study, in a news release. “There’s more rain overall, more intense rainfall on an hourly basis and stronger wind.”
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Post by: nopoop on August 15, 2022, 02:38:51 PM
Oooh !!! Ooooh !!
Koolaid !!!
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Post by: nopoop on August 15, 2022, 02:47:24 PM
Below are the 41 failed doomsday, eco-pocalyptic predictions (with links):
1. 1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975 2. 1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969) 3. 1970: Ice Age By 2000 4. 1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980 5. 1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030 6. 1972: New Ice Age By 2070 7. 1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast 8. 1974: Another Ice Age? 9. 1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life (data and graph) 10. 1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent 11. 1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes (additional link) 12. 1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend (additional link) 13. 1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s 14. 1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs 15. 1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not) 16. 1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000 17. 1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not) 18. 2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is 19. 2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy 20. 2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024 21. 2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018 22. 2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013 23. 2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World 24. 2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’ 25. 2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014 26. 2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015 (additional link) 27. 2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’ 28. 1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide 29. 1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources 30. 1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years 31. 1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years 32. 1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 1990s 33. 1980: Peak Oil In 2000 34. 1996: Peak Oil in 2020 35. 2002: Peak Oil in 2010 36. 2006: Super Hurricanes! 37. 2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015 38. 1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985 39. 1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable 40. 1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish 41. 1970s: Killer Bees!
Update: I’ve added 9 additional failed predictions (via Real Climate Science) below to make it an even 50 for the number of failed eco-pocalyptic doomsday predictions over the last 50 years.
42. 1975: The Cooling World and a Drastic Decline in Food Production 43. 1969: Worldwide Plague, Overwhelming Pollution, Ecological Catastrophe, Virtual Collapse of UK by End of 20th Century 44. 1972: Pending Depletion and Shortages of Gold, Tin, Oil, Natural Gas, Copper, Aluminum 45. 1970: Oceans Dead in a Decade, US Water Rationing by 1974, Food Rationing by 1980 46. 1988: World’s Leading Climate Expert Predicts Lower Manhattan Underwater by 2018 47. 2005: Fifty Million Climate Refugees by the Year 2020 48. 2000: Snowfalls Are Now a Thing of the Past 49.1989: UN Warns That Entire Nations Wiped Off the Face of the Earth by 2000 From Global Warming 50. 2011: Washington Post Predicted Cherry Blossoms Blooming in Winter.
They haven't been right ONCE.
All linked here and no I did not follow all the links so break out the nit pickers, lots of reading for you.
“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,” ecologist Kenneth Watt told an audience at Swarthmore College on April 19, 1970 around the time of the first Earth Day demonstrations.
“If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000,” Watt declared. “This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
LOL those were the days my friends. :rofl
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Post by: Vulcan on August 15, 2022, 06:35:55 PM
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Post by: RotBaron on August 15, 2022, 08:24:04 PM
So all this immense amount of rain mentioned will only hit ‘hundreds of miles’ of California?
Well they say they need it…Wondering if the old expression “when it rains, it pours” applies?
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Post by: Eagler on August 16, 2022, 07:03:47 AM
Where is Noah when you need him?
Climate is such a better boogeyman than terrorism or covid as measuring and change is so slow and hard to prove...its the ideal fear tool...and it works!
Eagler
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Post by: DmonSlyr on August 16, 2022, 07:28:21 AM
Fear is a hell of a drug.
Remember now, it's the climate and everybody else's fault, it definitely has 0 to do with the leadership the last 20 years (but we aren't gonna talk about that).
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Post by: FLS on August 16, 2022, 07:39:18 AM
When we have a bad storm it's climate change. :noid
When we have nice weather it's not climate change. :aok
MSN and 'experts' :rofl
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Post by: Maverick on August 16, 2022, 09:48:23 AM
I remember the ice age predictions in the very late 60's and early 70's. I wasn't too worried as I live in the desert SW. You can only cry wolf so many times before you are no longer taken as anything but chicken little and IMO we reached that stage back in the 90's.
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Post by: Hajo on August 16, 2022, 01:52:15 PM
Believing in climate change is a good way to lose some liberties and another way to tax each and everyone of us. Climate change may well be true. Over the millions of years climate changed on its' own. So is climate change real? Could be naturally. Scaring the hell out of people is a good way to help an agenda and also make money as well as enacting legislation what will take away some liberties.
Could Climate change be real? Could be. If so how drastic will it be? Predicting our daily weather is difficult at best. I doubt anyone alive can predict accurately.
As past predictions have been hugely inaccurate this may well be the same. I guess I'll wait and see. Remember.........don't believe the sky is falling. There certainly be people waiting in line to profit from this one way or another. They are forming a line already. Use common sense in all cases and remember past predictions of years gone by.
I however wish to live long enough to see dragon fly's with 6 foot wingspans. It would be easy enough to make them into drones. :D
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Post by: Eagler on August 16, 2022, 02:01:35 PM
When al gore first started this Idiocracy many of us saw all this controlling noise coming way back then...
It's the best control mechanism yet...that and another vague term "social justice" will control corporations and many other things going forward..CSR score is one term for this latest crazy..
https://ecovadis.com/glossary/csr-assessment/
If common sense doesn't prevail we are setting ourselves up for more turbulent times ahead
Eagler
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Post by: thndregg on August 16, 2022, 02:03:03 PM
Shared in another thread on a similar subject, but yeah..
Spot on, George Carlin. Perpetuating fear is big business. Has been for ages.
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Post by: Dichotomy on August 17, 2022, 06:28:03 AM
And not a single toilet paper shortage prediction among them.
Hey don't joke about the great toilet paper shortage of 2020. I had the displeasure of watching the retirees lining up outside the store, coming in like the extra cast of The Walking Dead, and depleting a full shelf in 15 minutes three times a week for a couple of months.
The good news is I controlled what went to the shelf and what didn't. Guess who never ran out of it?
*nasty tone* 'are you out of toilet paper again?' *looks at shelf* 'yes maam' 'well don't you have any in the back?' 'no maam' 'are you sure? you didn't look' 'because lady I run this department, I know what I have in the back, and there isn't any back there I promise' *storms off in a huff*
Guess i neglected to tell her I had a couple of cases stashed for employees and customers with manners..
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Post by: FLS on August 17, 2022, 07:25:07 AM
Some ladies don't like being lied to.
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Post by: DmonSlyr on August 17, 2022, 08:53:16 AM
Hey don't joke about the great toilet paper shortage of 2020. I had the displeasure of watching the retirees lining up outside the store, coming in like the extra cast of The Walking Dead, and depleting a full shelf in 15 minutes three times a week for a couple of months.
The good news is I controlled what went to the shelf and what didn't. Guess who never ran out of it?
*nasty tone* 'are you out of toilet paper again?' *looks at shelf* 'yes maam' 'well don't you have any in the back?' 'no maam' 'are you sure? you didn't look' 'because lady I run this department, I know what I have in the back, and there isn't any back there I promise' *storms off in a huff*
Guess i neglected to tell her I had a couple of cases stashed for employees and customers with manners..
Yup, people don't realize that if you cannot increase prices for your supply shortage and/or buyers rush, than the only thing you can do is hide it so you don't run out and can stay in business. They call it "price gouging" from the same people who try to tell us how economics works... only oil companies are allowed to do that :rofl