Friday, August 19, 2022

Is it just me, or is there genuinely a lot of flash flooding happening around the entire globe now?

Of course, Google via Youtube is pushing a lot of this content to me lately, and maybe it's not above global averages:  but I suspect something genuinely novel is going on at the moment.  

Flash flooding stories are coming from all over the place:   Death ValleyAfghanistan, France, China.   And that's only the past few days.  A couple of weeks ago it was Kentucky.   

It could all be confirmation bias, but sometimes I reckon the lay person can notice genuinely unusual sudden trends (or flips to a "new normal") that scientists do later confirm.

Update:   how convenient!  Just after I posted this, I see very credible climate scientist Andrew Dessler has a twitter thread on non-linearity in climate change, which is the sophisticated way of explaining what I am worrying about.






And, I might add, surely this has always been reason to doubt the credibility of economic forecasts on the long term effects of climate change - a topic I have posted about many, many times over the years.

5 comments:

Not Trampis said...

really interesting

GMB said...

Don't try that CO2 bullshit. CO2 is as electrically neutral as a gas molecule can be. Because of those two double bonds it can't be aligned like water molecules. In that way CO2 cannot affect weather.

Just stop your bullshit mate. Weather warfare is real. Soil depletion is real also. The Russians tried to get weather warfare outlawed but the deep state wouldn't do it. But weather warfare and soil depletion can lead to flooding. As can the onset of a new glacial people. Those are your suspects so don't fucking lie about it.

GMB said...

Dessler idea of non-linearity is fine. But there hasn't been anything like that amount of warming. Warming peaked in the 1930's. Before the post-war hydrocarbons deluge. Before these data fraudsters showed up. Any graph that doesn't show that the 30's is the warmest decade is based on dirty data.

Historically extreme weather events are more prevalent during the frigid times. This could be because water is more frigid when its colder. So the electrical differences between the ionosphere and the deep earth are probably easier to resolve when its a bit warmer. With more water movement. Plus more water vapour in the air DOES increase conductivity of the atmosphere. Locally that would mean more storms but globally that would probably mean less severe extreme events.

The problem is that the deep state now knows how to conduct weather warfare. They probably had some kind of notion of this in the 90's. But people who watch these storms have noticed the differences. Its all about nudging storm systems out to sea so they can't short out their excess energy then quickly running them aground when they have built up energy.

Most atmospherical gasses don't conduct. But ionised gasses do conduct. And aligned water molecules also can conduct. They can ionise gasses with a laser.

GMB said...

This could be because water is MORE VISCOUS when its colder.

John said...

Weather is going weird ...


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/china-drought-causes-yangtze-river-to-dry-up-sparking-shortage-of-hydropower