USGS has pulled the plug on the “1000 year” rainfall/flooding meme pitched by the media which is fine by them. The damage is already done. They milked that Climate cow and sent it off to pasture. They simply wont report the scientific clarification by an acknowledged “expert” and people will go on thinking that cheap, affordable energy caused epic warming-induced liquid misery for millions.
Not true.
Dr. Robert Holmes, National Flood Coordinator for the USGS said that, “While this certainly was a catastrophic flood with lots of damage and tragic loss of life, USGS provisional data and preliminary analysis show NO indication that a 1000-year flood discharge occurred at any USGS streamgages.”
There were places where streams hit 25 year, 50 year, and in one case close to a 500 flood stage, but almost all of the data shows 10 year floods in the majority of locations.
And yes, it is still flooding, but there is more bad news for the Cult of Climate Scientology.
USGS research has shown no linkage between flooding (either increases or decreases) and the increase in greenhouse gases. Essentially, from USGS long-term streamgage data for sites across the country with no regulation or other changes to the watershed that could influence the streamflow, the data shows no systematic increases in flooding through time.
Please report any actual coverage of these inconvenient truths by major media to the Climate Inquisitor at the office of Misinformation Management at Democrat Party Headquarters, 430 South Capitol Street Southeast, Washington, DC 20003.
