Is everyone hitting the crack pipe at The Guardian, or do they think people are this stupid? While this unabashedly left-wing publication has good moments covering international news and live blogging terror attacks in Europe, they did take a rake to the face here regarding the epic New York City floods last weekend. The Big Apple turned into a swimming pool. Anywhere from four to seven inches of rain dumped on the city from the remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia. Subways became raging rivers. At the Central Park Zoo, the water levels got so high that the sea lions could escape. It got so bad that Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency—it was bedlam.
The downpour of rain is turning NYC into a raging river. 🌊 https://t.co/o8Ni7gjBGF pic.twitter.com/wkG1QlZMwW
— New York Post (@nypost) September 29, 2023
Wild videos show flooded LaGuardia Airport terminal, travelers trying to flee waters https://t.co/vkmtFSUD2H pic.twitter.com/tpMle62mDZ
— New York Post (@nypost) September 29, 2023
UNDER WATER: Brooklyn Queens Expressway pic.twitter.com/zXUDUoVXK5
— NYScanner (@nyscanner) September 29, 2023
Major flooding in Brooklyn today. Trains shut down and the only way out of the station is through this. pic.twitter.com/yQPLOyc6dX
— Seth Chinnis (@sethchinnis) September 29, 2023
Brooklyn continues to grapple with extreme flooding today – streets submerged, cars stranded, and even @MTA buses inundated. pic.twitter.com/uXCws3mmry
— AccuWeather (@accuweather) September 29, 2023
The new Brooklyn waterfall is much much bigger now!!! pic.twitter.com/3RTd00VaBq
— Volcaholic 🌋 (@volcaholic1) September 29, 2023
And now, the experts are telling us that the “type of storm” that struck New York City caused—I can’t even believe this is real—the storm to be 10-20 percent “wetter.” Excuse me, what (via Guardian):
Can't wait to read this from the climate doomer Guardian.
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) October 3, 2023
"Type of storm"
"Up to 20% wetter" pic.twitter.com/oIwKfM597o
The unmistakable influence of the climate crisis helped cause New York City to be inundated by a month’s worth of rain within just a few hours on Friday, scientists have warned, amid concerns over how well the city is prepared for severe climate shocks.
A new rapid attribution study, released by scientists in Europe, has found that the type of storm seen on Friday is now 10-20% wetter than it would have been in the previous century, because of climate change.
Flash flooding soaked large parts of the US’s largest city, turning roads into rivers, following intense rainfall that broke records. John F Kennedy international airport measured 8in of rainfall in one day, the most since records began, while Brooklyn received a month’s worth of rain in just a few hours. People had to be rescued from swamped basement apartments, subway and bus services were canceled and sewage backed up in overwhelmed pipes.
Climate scientists have stressed that such pounding rainfall is a symptom of a warming planet, with a hotter atmosphere able to hold more moisture that is then unleashed in torrential downpours.
“Human-driven climate change plays a dual role, both intensifying these storms and warming the atmosphere,” said Davide Faranda, a scientist at the Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace in France. “Deeper storms yield more intense phenomena, while a warmer atmosphere can accommodate a greater amount of rain.”
So, past tropical storms were less wet and hellacious? What is this? Also, I’m chuckling that a tropical storm already known to be a water-logged event is somehow 10-20 percent wetter, thanks to global warming. They had to have known this narrative was dead on arrival.
Water was not as wet, but it’s now wetter due to climate change. Unreal stuff here, folks.
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