Them rays. So dangerous, but oh-so-pretty!
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When there is a thousand year flood every few years, it's probably not a thousand year flood.
I'm curious as to how flood data was recorded 1000 years ago?
Or is this just another case of pure assumptions and more "make it up as you go along"?
Floods are weather, so weather events are climate now?
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The 100, 1,000, 10,000 are markers for how rare an event is expected to be, based on past records.
When a once very rare weather event suddenly occurs multiple times in short succession, then something has changed. Perhaps... the climate?
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In Roanoke Virginia 1985 there was 6 to 8 inches of rain fall in an afternoon. The weather man said it was a 100 year flood, hasn't been even close to being repeated there since then. In 1985 a lot of people were blaming things like that flood on the hole in the ozone. Just like now with man made global warming.
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ralian-floods/
Big hole in the protective ozone layer that lets in excess ultraviolet radiation affects global wind patterns, which in turn affects rainfall patterns.
As with climate change, hard to pin any specific event to the ozone hole, but it does have an effect.
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I remember reading articles about how man made global warming was going to cause drought. It's turning out to be the catch all for any and every unusual weather phenomenon anywhere.
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Because climatic disruption causes strange weather. Like an unusually warm North Pole causes unusually cold winters south of the pole.
No man is an island.
No climate system is, either.