Serious floods in southern Germany – Chancellor beats his climate drum, ignoring history

Flooding like this has been recorded for centuries, e.g. on the Danube at Passau, Bavaria. Politicians are doing the usual bandwagon-jumping trick by trying to invoke human causes as the problem. – – – Floods caused by heavy rain in southern Germany have claimed at least four lives, reports BBC News. The victims include three […]

Photos of torrential Dubai flash floods show the downsides of trying to control the weather

The UAE’s cloud seeding operations worsened the Dubai flash floods according to this source. Would-be climate savers with grandiose schemes can take note. – – – Summary: — The United Arab Emirates experienced torrential rainfall and severe flash floods on Tuesday. — The flooding was worsened by the UAE’s cloud seeding practice to address water […]

600 years of tree rings reveal climate variability in California, droughts and floods more severe and longer lasting than in the modern record

The region studied has a naturally varying climate, as do most regions of the world. One minute the article says the last few centuries there had more weather extremes than now, the next it implies the future could or will be like that again or worse, due to being ‘compounded’ by the catch-all *climate change*. […]

The big melt: Crushed houses, trapped cars and the threat of floods – inside California’s buried ski resort

Claims that climate scientists ‘have never seen anything like it’ don’t tell us much as human lifetimes are short compared to Earth’s climate variations. There’s the story of the drained lake that reappeared – so clearly it was once there before any talk of ‘climate change’. – – – High in the California mountains, a […]

Pakistan’s floods and the climate attribution con – Net Zero Watch

We know what to expect from the climate propaganda machine. Here’s a critique of the ‘nudge’ method. – – – Climate alarmism and journalistic bias have reached new heights of misleading hype on the catastrophic flooding in Pakistan which is reported to have received more than three times its annual rainfall in August, says NZW. […]

More droughts and flooding predicted as La Niña weather pattern goes into third consecutive winter

A media campaign to point the finger at the ‘greed of rich countries’ for local weather conditions is already underway in Pakistan. But NASA gave the game away after the last time this happened, in 2010: ‘The rainfall anomaly map published by NASA showed unusually intense monsoon rains attributed to La Niña’ – Wikipedia. Of […]

CBS Trots Out The Weather Witches: Floods, Heat, And Fires, Oh My!

CBS Sunday Morning is blaming ‘eventual human extinction’, ‘societal collapse’ on your SUV. The likes of the BBC, Guardian and Sky News UK are heading in the same hysterical direction whenever a brief spell of cloudless summer skies arrives. Whatever the weather now and in the future, attempts to reduce the CO2 content of the […]

Media’s Favorite Bogeyman Falsely Blamed For S. Africa’s Tragic Floods

Too much instant attribution of single weather events to supposed human causes going on in today’s media, supported only (if at all) by rushed-out so-called analysis using climate models. Natural variation gets a low mark in this percentages blame game. – – – A Google news search for the term “climate change,” over the past […]

Frozen birds and flooded towns: How Britain grappled with climate change 500 years ago

Natural climate variation has always been, and still is, a fact of life, regardless of minor changes to trace gases in the atmosphere. – – – Extreme weather not just a modern phenomenon as study reveals how British towns experienced drastic climate during ‘Little Ice Age’ * * * Extreme weather caused by global warming […]

Ancient ‘megafloods’ tilted the very direction of Earth’s crust, scientists find

Ice age flooding, recreated in models. – – – Earth’s last major ice age locked up gargantuan amounts of water in vast glaciers, says Science Alert. Once they melted, it was a spectacle to behold as tremendous floods gouged channels into the face of the planet. The remnants of one of the largest of these […]

Could Pacific Northwest heatwave, European floods have been caused by the Sun?

Of course they could have been. The question is, were they? Assigning weather events to ‘global warming’ is ambiguous without a full definition of what the assigner means by that term. Jet stream blocking events discussed below are well-known to meteorologists, and constantly claiming them as evidence of a new human-caused problem with the climate […]

Germany’s flood disaster exposes folly of misbalanced Net Zero policies – The Global Warming Policy Forum

A meandering jet stream can lead to unusual weather conditions. Blaming ‘climate change’ (pick your own definition) is so vague as to be meaningless, but may serve to divert the spotlight away from political leaders. – – – The Global Warming Policy Forum has called on the UK government to learn the key lesson from […]

Science failed to predict flood and heat intensity, needs better computer – BBC

Maybe they need better ideas, not just more expensive modelling gear run by the same climate obsessives pushing worn-out theories that have never worked. Sales talk of ‘delivering the quantum leap’ sounds a bit thin after decades of posing as masters of climate understanding. – – – Top climate scientists have admitted they failed to […]

Study ‘projects’ a surge in US coastal flooding starting in 2030s

Anything supposedly ‘rapidly increasing’ or ‘extreme’ in Earth’s climate now or in the near future has to be treated with some suspicion, to say the least. Experience tells us alarmists armed with assumptions don’t need much excuse to go off the deep end to try and stir up the populace. – – – In the […]

Major floods increased in temperate climates but decreased elsewhere, say researchers

Such floods, or lack of them, were ’caused by a range of factors’ so not conducive to any particular brand of alarmism, it would seem. – – – Severe river floods are escalating in temperate climates and putting at risk populations, livelihoods and property, according to evidence published today in Geophysical Research Letters by an […]

Storm Dennis: Minister says climate change means government can’t protect everyone from flooding

Not sure where the 90 mph winds were supposed to be (the report says ‘parts of the UK’), but it has been blustery on and off for a few days. Enough for politicians to raise the spectre of ‘climate change’ once again, anyway. The video of an A380 Airbus making a hairy ‘crab’ landing at […]

On Cue — After Droughts And Fires, Then Come The Floods

Originally posted on PA Pundits International:
From the team at CFACT ~ By Joanne Nova ~ So much for the “hotter drier” Australian future they were warning us about 3 weeks ago. As predicted, droughts in Australia often end in floods. It is the way it has always been. Today people are already being rescued…

Venice canals almost run dry just two months after flooding

This so-called man-made climate change thing must be a versatile beast, if it exists outside of myths. Wednesday’s rare super blue blood moon gets some of the blame here, but recent low rainfall also played a part. Although the water levels in the city’s famous canals rise and fall with the tide, exceptionally low tides […]

No, Venice isn’t flooding due to climate change

H/T Climate Change Dispatch A similar flood in 1966 gives the lie to the latest alarmist claims. In any case, everyone knows Venice has been sinking for centuries. – – – Venice is flooded – again – and its mayor Luigi Brugnaro is blaming climate change. Except that’s rubbish, says James Delingpole. This has become […]

Storm Diego blasts California, will roar across southern US with snow, ice, rain, floods

From huge wildfires to cold stormy weather in a matter of a few weeks in California. A powerful storm will crawl across the southern tier of the U.S. over the next several days, delivering snow, ice, rain, floods and even a few tornadoes, says USA Today. A powerful storm that slammed southern California Thursday will […]