Saturday, March 12, 2022
SEPARATING SCIENCE FROM PSEUDOSCIENCE FOR FLOODS AND EXTREME PRECIPITATION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ8tYvyye64Welcome everyone.
This video separates science from the pseudo-science regards floods and extreme precipitation in part 7 of how pressure systems control climate. Floods are the most frequent of all natural disasters. The deadliest of all recorded floods devastated regions of china in cooler times of the late 1800s and 1930s. But the visible heartache of floods today makes them lucrative click-bait for mainstream media and good optics to push a climate crisis. For example, last year national public radio promoted pseudo-science in order to frame floods as a new existential threat.
Level ground, rich soils and easy access to water have enticed people to colonize flood plains for millennia, despite the risk of inevitable catastrophic floods. Building levees was one solution. But by denying a river access to its natural floodplains, levees amplified downstream flows only to re-locate flooding. This video won’t delve into the effects of human levee systems, here I focus on the latest science to establish how much flooding can be expected from natural climate variability. Due to the inevitable natural frequency of floods, by 1920 private insurance companies in America stopped offering flood insurance.
Unwisely, governments then offered flood insurance that has unintentionally encouraged people to keep staying on the flood plains, no matter how often they needed to rebuild, and no matter how much wetland ecosystems are lost. As seen here, Florida’s St John’s River lost over 90% of its floodplains to encroaching humanity in 70 years. But observing the environmental damage there are now ongoing efforts to restore as much wetlands as possible.
https://perhapsallnatural.blogspot.com/2022/03/separating-science-from-pseudoscience.html
