Saturday, May 04, 2013
Is that normal?
NFR is doubling down on "climate" pseudoscience. They interview a Midwest farmer dealing with floods; he says "Four out of five years; that's not normal." And of course they run directly to Evil KKKarbon for the cause of the "abnormality." Evil KKKarbon causes floods, it causes droughts, it causes cold, it causes heat, it causes instability, it causes stability. Perfect pseudoscience, as always. Look it up.
Well, let's just check that little thing. Four out of five years: is that normal or not?
From an 1852 issue of Appleton's Mechanic Magazine. [Page 41 of the PDF.]
Pulling part of the text from the image:
Pulling part of the text from the image:
The June freshet of the Missouri river is as regular as the rise in the waters of the Nile. It is occasioned by the melting of the snows of the upper country. The rich bottoms of the valley are covered with a heavy growth of timber, and the size and age of this timber forms an index to the movements of the immediate channel of the river.... The encroachments of the river root up, every season, numerous large trees. In certain parts of the river they lie thickly interlaced and render the navigation intricate and dangerous at low stages of the water.Sounds pretty normal to me. It became somewhat less normal when we dammed the upper reaches of the Missouri, which averaged out the flow. But in recent years the Corps of Engineers has been required to control the dams for the benefit of the nonexistent fictional fantastic antiscience antiDarwin socalled alleged fucking quote """"""endangered"""""" """"""species"""""" end quote, so the dams are no longer doing their proper job.
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