Posted on 01/17/2011 10:40:07 AM PST by edpc
A group of more than 100 scientists and experts say in a new report that California faces the risk of a massive "superstorm" that could flood a quarter of the state's homes and cause $300 billion to $400 billion in damage. Researchers point out that the potential scale of destruction in this storm scenario is four or five times the amount of damage that could be wrought by a major earthquake.
It sounds like the plot of an apocalyptic action movie, but scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey warned federal and state emergency officials that California's geological history shows such "superstorms" have happened in the past, and should be added to the long list of natural disasters to worry about in the Golden State.
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"Scientists" and "experts" haven't had a very good track record lately. Nevertheless, these events will be blamed on man-made global warming and climate change if they occur. It's irrelevant they've happened prior to the industrial age.
“...these events will be blamed on man-made global warming...”
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Sacrifice Algore to appease the weather gods.
Hey Jerry, I know 100 people who are too unstable to hold their current positions.
If any of them are on the state payroll, could you please give them the opportunity to find something productive to do in the private sector.
0bama’s fault.
Works for me.
Bush’s fault ...
I once drove through the high dessert in CA on the way to Mammoth and got stuck in a blizzard. There were cars off the road in ditches and it was a near ‘white out’. Luckily, I had chains. I remember seeing snow and icicles on a sign that marked a road going to Death Valley.
Ya there are signs all over the globe of a “super storm”, they even have a name for it ... Noah’s flood! Don’t think we have to worry too much about a repeat of that but better watch out for that up coming fire storm!
Wow. They better get to controlling CO2 fast! Maybe they should charge a fee to exhale.
Horrors!! Just think what such a flood today would do to the endangered delta smelt! Environmentalists will go bonkers (not that they not already so).
“...meaning that an ARkStorm could cost on the order of $725 billion, which is nearly 3 times the loss deemed to be realistic by the ShakeOut authors for a severe southern California earthquake, an event with roughly the same annual occurrence probability.”
Sounds like someone somewhere is angling for more money.
California's geological history shows such "superstorms" have happened in the past,
An expert (L) and a scientist (R).
That’s why they’ve backed off spending cuts. They’re affaid if they balanced the budget by cutting spending, government worker pensions and entitlements, Hell would freeze over prompting the Superstorm.
We reside on a living planet ... complete with weather. Mostly benign, sometimes destructive ... sometimes very destructive. As long as the earth lives, there will be forest fires, avalanches, hurricanes, mud slides, incoming meteorites, solar storms, ‘devastating’ snow falls, volcanoes, ... and pseudo-’scientist’ who lust after the funds in the public trough so they can continue to ring the warning bell that the next event on that list of natural happening is just over the horizon.
We cannot survive on a dead planet that has none of these occurrences.
My “doubting Thomas” side wants to know how they know the exact years of previous floods. Sounds like a huge crock based on wishful thinking.....pleading for SOMETHING extraordinary to happen that they can blame on AGW! And just WHAT was the cause of those previous storms, for which they have such precise dates? Hmmmm?! Sounds like a whole lot of what-comes-out-of the south end of a northbound horse to me!
Huh? They had newspapers in California in the 1860’s.
That... or they will blame Rush or Sarah.
LLS
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