As Rahm Emanuel, Hillary Clinton, and so many Democrats say, never let a good crisis go to waste
President Obama used the flooding in the Red River Valley to insist that society needs to take global warming seriously.
In a White House interview with a handful of reporters, including Janell Cole of the Forum of Fargo, the president said the current flooding cannot necessarily be blamed on global warming, but he said it should be a signal to act.
Go that? Even though it may not be the fault of AGW, hey, let’s “do something.” Which usually involves people getting soaked. $$$ soaked.
As Scott at Powerline points out, Obama to the contrary notwithstanding, there is no reason to think that the flooding has anyhing to do with global warming. The Red River is unfortunately prone to Spring flooding. It is a regularly recurring phenomenon. As Wikipedia explains:….
Maybe Obama should blame Clinton for not following the signal and acting after the Midwest flood in 1993, as well as the many others from 1993 through Jan 2001. There was also a big Red River flood in 1997, lasted several months, from massive snowmelt. Which tends to happen in April and May.
And, oh, goodness, there were big floods in Georgia, Idaho, and Pennsylvania during the time period in the 1970’s when the media was worried about the coming ice age. And many more during the 20th Century. And let’s not forget about the Johnstown Flood in 1889.
Now, I am not saying that the natural process of global warming cannot cause more and worse floods (very strange word, if you think about it,) but, it is rather hysterical (not the funny version) to say we need to “do something” about events that will happen whether it is colder or hotter. The AGW Believers want to bring CO2 back to 1990 levels. Well, big floods happened before that year, too.
