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Data show that flood impacts as measured by direct economic losses have actually decreased by about 90% since 1940 as a proportion of U.S. GDP. The United States is in fact more resilient to flooding than it has ever been. The reduction in flood impacts is an incredible story of success sitting out in plain sight that is completely ignored, in favor of stories that instead tell us that down is up.
The data shows U.S. annual flood damage as a proportion of GDP. In 1940 flood losses amounted to a 2023 equivalent of about $50 billion per year, and in 2022 they totaled about $5 billion, a reduction of over 90%.
Although it is true aggregate flood losses have increased, that is a result of price inflation and population growth in general, and in particular increased population density and development in areas historically prone to flooding. When you put more people in flood plains along attractive riverfronts, lakeshores, and coasts prone to hurricanes, while draining wetlands (which are natural buffers to flooding), channelizing formerly meandering waterways, and replacing natural areas that absorb or drain waters after storms with impervious surfaces, the result is more flooding and higher losses when storms come.
From 1940 through 2023, as flood damage tripled and GDP grew by more than 10 times, flood damage decreased dramatically as percentage of U.S. economic activity.
Claims that climate change is making flooding worse are untenable, not supported by the data. Such claims are also unsupported by the supposedly authoritative bodies charged with examining the impacts of “human-caused” climate change.
For example, in the 2018 National Climate Assessment (NCA) published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the agency stated, “Human-induced warming has not been formally identified as a factor in increased riverine flooding and the timing of any emergence of a future detectable human caused change is unclear.”
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) assessment concurs with NOAA’s. The IPCC reports having “low confidence” that there is even a “sign” of change in the frequency or severity of flooding. The IPCC also has “low confidence” that climate change affects flooding at all. Some regions of the world have had more flooding, others less. Neither trend can be attributed to global climate change, per the IPCC.
A study of flooding in the United States and Europe published in the Journal of Hydrology states, “The number of significant [flooding] trends was about the number expected due to chance alone.”
The science on flooding and climate change indicates flood costs aren’t rising as a percentage of GDP and there is no evidence floods are increasing as a result of climate change.
Meanwhile, research published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) finds West Antarctica has recently cooled significantly, indicating the ongoing glacial decline there is driven by factors other than global warming.
The team of researchers from China and Australia examined a variety of datasets, including reconstructed sea surface temperatures from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and monthly mean surface data from the Byrd station (“the only WAIS [West Antarctic Ice Sheet] station with complete long-term temperature records from 1958 to 2021”), to calculate the West Antarctic temperature trends. The scientists found West Antarctica’s mean annual surface temperatures cooled by more than -1.8°C (-0.93°C per decade) from 1999 to 2018, which many climate alarmists have proclaimed the warmest two decades on record. The spring temperature decline on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) was even steeper, cooling at a rate of 1.84°C per decade in that period.
The WAIS cooling in the last 2 decades is consistent with what has occurred on the continent as a whole: an approximately 1°C per decade cooling trend since 1999.
None of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 models used and cited by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted or reflects the Antarctic cooling trend, either for the continent as a whole or for its various regions.
The Central Pacific and Eastern Pacific regions have also experienced significant cooling trends so far this century. The BAMS study suggests Antarctica’s temperatures and climate are dominated by various ocean current oscillations, primarily the Pacific Decadal Oscillation shifting from a negative to a positive phase, that have swamped any possible effect of increases in CO2 concentrations.
This trend, with its lack of conformity to the models’ predictions, implies substantial uncertainties in future temperature projections of CMIP6 models.
Source; MEROBERTM
The Washington Post has just published the most blatant piece of Trump assassination porn that we’ve ever seen. The Post’s Editor-at-Large, a guy named Robert Kagan, wrote an op-ed in which he joins the hysterical likes of MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough in huffing about how Trump will be worse than Hitler if he gets back in office and democracy will be permanently ended and blah blah blah.
These demonic calls for assassinating President Trump are always couched as questions… “What if?” But the real purpose is to try to stir up some lone gunman or some MK-ULTRA windup toy so that he or she will make a real assassination attempt.
Kagan’s new piece in the Washington Post is titled, “A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.”
As Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) noted on Twitter, the CIA is now greenlighting the assassination of President Trump.
For those who don’t know, all of the intelligence agencies in the federal government have favorite media outlets that they use to propagandize the American people and push their ideas on us. It’s like Operation Mockingbird on steroids these days. The intel agencies have reporters, anchors, and hosts on the payroll who are used to push the federal government’s foreign policy objectives on the people.
For example, when the FBI wants to illegally leak something to the public, where does the information always come out first? It’s in one of two places: Either the New York Times, or Yahoo News (the Russian potty dossier). The NSA uses NBC News. The National Intelligence Council uses CBS News. Having worked at ABC News for 12 years, I can personally attest to the fact that the Pentagon and the Department of Defense prefer to use that outlet to propagandize Americans.
And for the CIA, the outlet that they prefer to use is the Washington Post. We joke about the Washington Post being “Jeff Bezos’s blog” ever since he purchased the paper, but which tech company does the CIA rely on for all its cloud computing needs and AI technology? That would be Amazon, which is owned by Jeff Bezos.
Everybody who works in permanent Washington, DC knows that the CIA propagandizes the American people via the Washington Post. That’s why Matt Gaetz immediately called out this Robert Kagan assassination porn the way he did.
Kagan concludes in his piece that Donald Trump winning the Republican nomination is a foregone conclusion at this point. He also frets that Trump is now leading Joe Biden by every conceivable metric and in every poll to win the presidency back next year. Because of that, he’s suggesting through this CIA hit piece that Donald Trump should get the Julius Caesar treatment, for the good of the republic.
Kagan writes:
“If we thought there was a 50 percent chance of an asteroid crashing into North America a year from now, would we be content to hope that it wouldn’t? Or would we be taking every conceivable measure to try to stop it, including many things that might not work but that, given the magnitude of the crisis, must be tried anyway?”
Every conceivable measure? Gee, what could that mean?
“Will those who balked at resisting Trump when the risk was merely political oblivion suddenly discover their courage when the cost might be the ruin of oneself and one’s family?”
He makes this sound like Trump is going to lock up his family, when the reality is much more likely that Trump is going to fire Robert Kagan’s wife on day one of his new administration. Kagan is married to Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. You may recognize Nuland’s name from some of America’s most disastrous foreign policy failures of the past two decades.
Nuland was the CIA and the State Department’s author and instigator of such hits as the Iraq War, the Arab Spring, the biolabs in Ukraine and the Ukraine war with Russia, a failed coup attempt in Sudan last summer, and the loss of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. She’s one of those people who has been “failing upward” in the Washington, DC apparatus for the past two decades. And her CIA shill of a husband is calling for Donald Trump to be assassinated.
“Every conceivable measure.”
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"Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty, ought to have it ever before his eyes, that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America, and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it." —James Madison (1788) As Harry Truman said: "Show me a politician who got rich while in office, and I will show you a Crook."
"Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty, ought to have it ever before his eyes, that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America, and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it." —James Madison (1788) As Harry Truman said: "Show me a politician who got rich while in office, and I will show you a Crook."
Help stop the Draconian ATF proposed rules on Universal Registration Checks that could make every gun owner subject to the same rules as someone who is engaged in the business as a dealer in Firearms and subject to all the ATF rules and regulations. Here is a link to the page that needs people to sign. Gun Owners of America just submitted their own comments opposing the proposed Universal Registration Checks rule to the ATF.
Link; https://hosted-page.civiclick.com/?campaign_ref=4225
The ATF wants to expand the dealer regulations to any private gun owner who sells a firearm to another private person and subject those gun owners to the complete rules and regulations of actual Dealers complete with the penalties for mistakes and non compliance. It's a complete ruse to disarm Americans, and criminalize innocent gun owners. IMHO!
