It's great to read right wing blogs, if only to see how their minds operate.
Discussing why "500-year floods" of the kind presently afflicting the midwest are apparently now occurring more frequently than once every 500 years, and whether global warming is a factor, righty writer Jonah Goldberg notes, "I'm entirely open to the idea that these floods are to some extent man-made (or man-exacerbated, if that phrase passes muster), I'm just dubious about the global warming part."
(Because, you know, in righty world, global warming is a fraud. No such thing exists. After all, Rush says so, and he's a real scientific genius.)
An update from an "engineer" notes, "FEMA has changed (and rightfully so) the name of the storm event or flood to not use a term of years. A 500-year is now a 0.2% chance event. A 100-year is now a 1% chance event. This was done to prevent bad claims that a 500-year event is happening more often due to one reason or another."
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q
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In other words, FEMA changed its nomenclature "to prevent bad claims", i.e., so folks can't use the fact that "500 year" storms are happening way more often than, say, once every 500 years, as proof of global warming.
Think about it - - FEMA changed technical terms of longstanding usage in an effort to politically defeat scientific fact from which FEMA's political leadership dissents on political grounds. They admit it, they discuss it and they applaud it.
Would you expect anything else from them?
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