Science Demonstrates Media Claims the Washington and British Columbia Floods Were Caused by ‘Climat

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Science Demonstrates Media Claims the Washington and British Columbia Floods Were Caused by ‘Climate Change’ Is False
By
Anthony Watts -
November 24, 2021 1
 

Heavy rainfall recently created damaging floods over British Columbia and Northwest Washington, with the town of Sumas, WA hit hard by floodwaters. It didn’t take long for ‘woke’ politicians and the media to start claiming that this event was the direct result of global warming aka “climate change.” Evidence shows this claim is baseless and false.

For example, Washington’s Governor Jay Inslee called the flooding an example of “a permanent state of attack by the forces of climate change.”   The New York Times claimed that flooding in Northwest Washington was caused by climate change saying “Vancouver Is Marooned by Flooding and Besieged Again by Climate Change.”

Similar false claims were found in the Washington Post and The Guardian newspapers.

University of Washington Professor Cliff Mass, Ph.D. analyzed the flood event. Mass writes, “The truth is very different than these claims.”

https://climaterealism.com/2021/11/science-demonstrates-media-claims-the-washington-and-british-columbia-floods-were-caused-by-climate-change-is-false/

[Kamaji]

The Sumas area is extraordinarily prone to flooding and has experienced flooding many times before.   And as I will demonstrate below, there is no evidence whatsoever that global warming caused the heavy rainfall associated with this event.

The town of Sumas is within the historical flood plain of the Fraser River, with an additional flooding threat from local rivers such as the Nooksack (see maps below from a 2005 report by Dr. Jacek Scibek and Dr. Diana Allen of Simon Fraser University)