Are Floods Dramatically Increasing Due to Climate Change?
Part one of a two-part series: The natural hazard of floods.

PATRICK T BROWN
MAY 06, 2024
 
Flooding is among the most consequential natural hazards and globally accounts for tens of thousands of deaths per year and hundreds of billions of dollars of damage per year.

When rivers overrun their banks or flash floods occur from extreme rainfall, many media outlets will reflexively report on the flooding as though we are in a fundamentally new situation due to climate change.

Consider the following headlines:

The Washington Post when major flooding hit the United States last summer: “Floods, fires and deadly heat are the alarm bells of a planet on the brink.”

The New York Times headline reported major floods in Vermont last year, “Showed the Limits of America’s Efforts to Adapt to Climate Change.”

https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/are-floods-dramatically-increasing

GREGORY WRIGHTSTONE: Scientific Report Pours Cold Water On Major Talking Point Of Climate Activists

GREGORY WRIGHTSTONE
AUTHOR OF INCONVENIENT FACTS: THE SCIENCE THAT AL GORE DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
May 05, 2024
 

The purveyors of climate doom will not tolerate the good news of our planet thriving because of modest warming and increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide. However, a recent scientific paper concludes that an optimistic vision for Earth and its inhabitants is nonetheless justified.

Widely accepted data show an overall greening of Earth resulting from a cycle of natural warming that began more than 300 years ago and from industrialization’s additions of CO2 that started in the 19th century and accelerated with vigorous economic activity following World War II.


Also attributed to these and other factors is record crop production, which now sustains 8 billion people—ten times the population prior to the Industrial Revolution. The boost in atmospheric CO2 since 1940 alone is linked to yield increases for corn, soybeans and wheat of 10%, 30% and 40%, respectively.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/05/gregory-wrightstone-scientific-report-pours-cold-water-on-major-talking-point-of-climate-activists/