Record Rainfalls A Thing Of The Past

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ohd/hdsc/record_precip/record_precip_us.html

We keep being told by climate alarmists that global warming is responsible for more intensive rainfall, the theory being that a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture.

Funny then that when we look at rainfall records across the US for all sorts of different timescales, we find none at all since 1981.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ohd/hdsc/record_precip/record_precip_us.html

Take particular note of the four records in Texas:

• Galveston 1871 – 3.95” in 15 minutes
• Woodward Ranch 1935 – 15.0” in 2 hours
• Thrall 1921 – 36.4” in 18 hours
• Alvin 1979 – 43” in 24 hours

Storm Harvey never got anywhere near these sort of totals.

And we find a very similar picture when we review global records, with the most recent record being as long ago as 1980.

http://www.bom.gov.au/water/designRainfalls/rainfallEvents/worldRecRainfall.shtml

FOOTNOTE

It has been pointed out that the global records, still shown as current on the BOM website, are actually from…

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Extreme Poverty USA: The True Cost of Climate Madness

Watts Up With That?

Skid Row Los Angeles. Jorobeq at English Wikipedia [CC BY 2.5], via Wikimedia CommonsGuest essay by Eric Worrall

While various US governments continue to waste unimaginable sums of public money on pointless climate schemes, real problems ranging from third world poverty in Alabama to an explosion of the skid row population of Los Angeles are being allowed to fester.

Human Intestinal Parasite Burden and Poor Sanitation in Rural Alabama

Hookworm infection affects 430 million people worldwide, causing iron deficiency, impaired cognitive development, and stunting in children. Because of the environmental conditions needed for the hookworm life-cycle, this parasite is endemic to resource-limited countries. Necator americanus was endemic in the southern United States before improvement of sewage disposal systems and eradication programs. With continued poverty, poor sanitation, and an environment suitable for the hookworm life-cycle in some regions of the southern United States, a current prevalence study…

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