With hurricane season over, the cult will need to find something else to worry us all about. Wildfires weren’t as bad as predicted, nor were tornadoes or any other natural phenomenon. Flooding was crazy in the spring, especially around here, but did you know it’s been in decline?
According to the EPA, flooding magnitude and frequency have both declined in the US since 1965. Increased flooding frequency has occurred at 186 locations and decreased frequency at 295 locations.
The EPA, which has been tracking river flooding since 1956, has a map that documents the trends. As noted, fewer rivers are flooding compared to data from nearly sixty years ago. I can only assume this means that “global warming” reduces river flooding.
One comment at RCSB pondered the proximity of increased frequency or magnitude to urbanization.
It appears that the flooding increases are mostly in urban areas, which is more an indicator of impervious build out over the land with inadequate water take away. Is it possible that government engineers failed to recognize the difference between the percolation of soil versus asphalt?
The climate guilt club is fond of imposing stormwater runoff rules while simultaneously insisting that we all need to pack ourselves together into their paved urban paradise even when these heat islands of theirs skew the temperature record.
Another commenter.
Isn’t it then even more strange that the predicted AGW-caused increase in floods(and droughts) is not happening? Despite all the additional land that has been ‘sealed’ and made waterproof by asphalt, concrete, etc, the number of floods should be rising instead of going down.
Cities are much bigger and more numerous than in 1956. Their asphalt footprints are huge in some cases. Almost as big as their aspirations for human control of the weather. Why don’t we have more flooding?
Because these are the same people who don’t know what bathroom to use or what a woman is.
HT | RCSB
