Study: Ancient Megafloods Dwarf Today’s Extremes — But You Won’t Hear That on the Evening News
2 days ago Anthony Watts
New paleo evidence reveals floods in Earth’s past that were hundreds of times larger than anything we’ve seen recently — and had nothing to do with CO₂.
“The past is not dead. It’s not even past.”
— William Faulkner
The media’s appetite for climate catastrophe never seems to get full. Virtually every flood event now comes packaged with breathless declarations of “unprecedented” intensity and grim warnings of fossil-fueled doom. But a new study covered by Phys.org just threw a mammoth-sized monkey wrench into that narrative — quite literally.
Researchers examining paleoflood evidence in the Pacific Northwest have found that ancient deluges during the last Ice Age were not just bigger, they were so massive that they make modern floods look like puddle-jumping. In some cases, peak discharges exceeded 10 million cubic meters per second, compared to just tens of thousands for modern floods — including extreme ones like the 1993 Mississippi River flood.
Let’s be clear: these were natural events, happening 12,000 to 18,000 years ago, long before coal plants, internal combustion engines, or UN climate conferences.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/04/04/study-ancient-megafloods-dwarf-todays-extremes-but-you-wont-hear-that-on-the-evening-news/
