are floods getting more common???

Answer 1

No they are less common and that is bad. Floods are natural the reason forest fires are so big these days is because we don't allow more flooding.

Answer 2

I would think so after all the Hurricanes and the sunami.. We have actual volcanos in the oceans, that can actually cause a sunami, in California (where I'm from).. And, apparently its not going to get any better,with all the ice melting, the oceans rising, and before we all know it Florida, Louisiana & California, the Carolina's will all probably be under water, and the rest of the states will most likely have to deal with the flooding even worse, at that time...Global Warming, Volcano's its time to read the good book, called: "The King James" and ask God to fill you with the holy spirit, so you can better understand it all.. He promised with creating the rainbow that he would never end Mankind by flood again, but if you look at the "Sodom & Gamora" state of Louisiana. And what they do for beads, sounds like he was giving that state a Big Warning!! And none of them paid attention what-so-ever!! Except the poor Christians, that have to deal with all the crookedness, that goes,with that state.. Anyway!!!!

Answer 3

I could not find a documented answer to your question but I would offer an article from RealClimate.org, which is related (see below). An interesting foot note in the article states:

"**Consider for example, that 1 m of sea level rise would change the frequency of what are now 100-year floods in metropolitan New York to once in every four years events. (See here and Rosenzweig, C. and W.D. Solecki (Eds.). 2001. Climate Change and a Global City: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change - Metro East Coast (MEC). Report for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change for the United States, Columbia Earth Institute, New York. 224 pp)"

Related to that wikipedia indicates that sea level have risen 20 cm in the last 120 years.

20 cm is 1/5th of what is required to cause 100 year floods to occur on a 4 year frequency basis in New York City. That strongly implies that flooding is becoming more common.

Answer 4

Yes. The deforestation of wooded areas, building in floodplain areas, covering streams with parking lots and buildings so that the water has nowhere to run, except down a drain which isn't large enough for the amount of water going through it.....

And the developers don't care, as long as they make money, they're happy. And they've paid off the high up government officials so they can get away with it.

Answer 5

Very possible... with the increasing average global temperature, literally 10s of thousands of cubic feet of polar ice is being melted back down into liquid water each year. An increase in the amount of wate available for evaporation along with the rising temperature to speed the process means higher water vapor levels in the atmosphere which in turn can lead to more extensively widespread and heavier downpours.

Answer 6

Floods are definitely becoming more commom due to global warming. With global warming their is much more energy in the atmosphere and so we will see much more dramatic rainfalls that will result in severe flooding while other parts of our planet will experience sever drought. The weather will be one of new extremes.

Answer 7

Yes.

The problem with Global Warming became a danger
to life on earth when "Man" became able to "Slash" and "Burn" all the treees in our Forests. We didn't
have this problem when there was "Selective Cutting"
of trees and the cut trees were replanted right away.

When there was a "Civilian Conservation Corp" during
FDRs Presidency, the recruits replanted forests, and fought forest fires. They were paid a wage that allowed them to keep a small amount for themselves and the rest was sent home for their families. This could work well
to keep the youth of today doing "Good Work" and
learning responsibility.

My guess is that lots of todays youths would welcome such a program. Write your Congressman and suggest this.

Answer 8

Yes, you can tell by listening to where all the floodings are and how the levels are increasing to break new records.

Answer 9

I think so. The sea level rising, more water vapour evaporating into the atmosphere, means more rain. This global warming effect is not helping either.

Answer 10

Yes... the weather cycle has been doing all sorts of interesting things in the last 50 years.