The same people who were hyping unprecedented drought in Texas a few days ago, are now hyping unprecedented rain.
Houston, Texas, Hit by Unprecedented Flooding; Seven States At Risk – NBC News.com
As always, it is complete BS. Houston has had much heavier rainfall in the past.
28 Jul 1979 – TROPICAL STORM CLAUDETTE Thousands homeless in T…
Over at WattsUpWithThat they ran a discussion about “How to Influence Climate Change Public Policy”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/05/25/how-to-influence-climate-change-public-policy/
The stuff dredged up on this site needs to have some real public exposure.
How’s that book coming along?
Everyone scroll through this Texas Flood Database … then tell us about ‘unprecedented’…
Yep, took about 10 seconds to find via Google.. Floods are a Regular Occurrence in Texas… not rare.. Geez..
http://floodsafety.com/texas/USGSdemo/1950to1925.htm
Feast or famine in Houston, that is the nature of the beast. Near Sugarland and Richmond SW of Houston 10-11 inches of rainfall overnight. My daughter is unable to leave her home in Bellaire on the SW side of Houston as cars are floating in her street. Hasn’t been this much short-term rainfall in the region since Hurricane Ike in 2008.
I fully agree with your point — the flooding is certainly not unprecedented. I’ve lived in SE Texas since 1982, and I can remember occasions when the flooding was far more severe and widespread. However, flooding of this magnitude has always been associated with a tropical depression/storm in my 30+ year experience, so I cannot comment about whether or not this current event is a record breaker for a non-tropical system.
Let’s see if I have this right… The CAGWers predicted that we are going to have more hurricanes because of the hotter atmosphere. But then, not only does the atmosphere refuse to warm up, but we then proceed to get even fewer hurricane landfalls than usual, which means that Texas gets a somewhat lower than normal amount of annual rainfall. The CAGWers then blame THAT lower rain on the warmer atmosphere, (that would be the warmer atmosphere that never actually happened.) So eventually, Texas gets some heavy rainfall — maybe because it is actually cooling even though they are fraudulently changing the temperature readings to show a warming trend. And now the heavy (but not unprecedented) rainfall is also said to be caused by the CAGW of the warming atmosphere (in spite of the fact that the atmosphere is still not warming.) To top it all off, the only way to stop this not-really-unsual rainfall from happening during the predicted drought caused by all the hurricanes hitting us, is to stop using fuel that causes an insignificant radiative effect that triggers an imaginary increase in the warming of something that hasn’t changed temperature anyway!
Jeepers creepers… This CAGW stuff is complicated!
It is as if T.S. Elliot created a Venn diagram and labeled it CAGW.
I came across this by accident. Explains succinctly why so many “believe” global warming.
Really worth watching:
https://youtu.be/eU-hlf7n16A
If I remember correctly, during Tropical Storm Allison in 2001 Houston and the surrounding areas received ~28 inches of rain in 24 hours.
It completely flooded the Medical Center and did over $1 billion of damage there alone. I was a grad student at Baylor College of Medicine at the time, and they lost everything in the basement and below, including all the centralized electrical equipment and animal facilities.
Indeed. Some places got 10′ of rain in less than 5 hours. ‘Storm rainfall totals peaked at 36.99 inches (Port of Houston) in Texas…’
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/assessments/pdfs/allison.pdf
2001 was before Facebook and Twitter, and thus for the MSM is unknown to them. It stands to reason that when your attention span is 10 seconds long, 14 years is like a century…
Unofficially, Friendswood got 12″ in 30 minutes that was recorded on Doppler radar, but it was not official because there is no weather station in Friendswood . I remember the wall of water falling.
Oh man, I am terrified to think how much worse the permanent drought is going to be after a hypestorm like that.
Do you think we can go 24 hrs without someone attributing it to AGW?
c’mon
this is obvious climate disruption
I hate when I get disrupted
We have El Niño. In Poland, too heavily rain.
http://weather.gc.ca/data/saisons/images/2015052600_054_G6_global_I_SEASON_tm@lg@sd_000.png
El Niño is combined with a decrease in AMO (the temperature in the North Atlantic).
At the same time strongly galactic radiation (more of precipitation).
http://sol.spacenvironment.net/raps_ops/current_files/rtimg/dose.15km.png
Click.
It also delays the monsoon in India.
Please see clouds and wind direction.
http://pl.sat24.com/pl/wd/world
I do not know what the words are for clouds and wind direction in this language.
The fine print (or just outright omission) is that it is record rainfall FOR THAT CALENDAR DAY.
Minor detail.
This is geo-engineered weather. It is man made weather not natural weather. Frankly, I am sick of Globalist Political Weather Wars. We’ve got to out money and out smart these lying, ignorant, arrogant fools‼️
Unprecedented Events of 1922-1945-2001
CHAOS & FEAR of death from events during a total news blackout in Aug-Sept 1945 – following Aston’s warning in a Nobel Lecture on 12 Dec 1922 – frightened world leaders into uniting nations (UN) and national academies of science (NAS) on 24 Oct 1945 to take totalitarian control of the world:
“Aston’s WARNING (12 Dec 1922); CHAOS and FEAR (Aug-Sept 1945)” https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10640850/CHAOS_and_FEAR_August_1945.pdf
Fifty-six years later, events on 9/11/2001 led to the global war on terrorism.
See?
Climate Change is real. We never used to have “hyper storms.” /SARC
What is the Russian word for “unprecedented”? I suspect that same word was commonly used in Pravda
Here is a one-page summary of the unprecedented problems governments, science and society now face because Stalin effectively won WWII and united nations [UN] and independent national academies of science [NAS] into an Orwellian Ministry of Consensus Science Truth on 24 Oct 1945:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10640850/Introduction.pdf
Seems the Bill Nye the foolish Guy is putting both of his feet in his mouth again:
http://twitchy.com/2015/05/27/well-give-you-one-guess-what-bill-nye-not-the-climate-scientist-guy-thinks-caused-the-flooding-in-houston/