Is Global Warming contributing to this flooding?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070823/ap_on_re_us/flooding

Answer 1

It's impossible to attribute any single weather event to global warming. It's true that global warming causes more extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts, and floods on average, but there's no way to know if this particular flooding would have been any better if not for global warming.

Answer 2

There is absolutely no evidence for a global flood. The Antarctic ice cap alone disproves it. Ice in the Antarctic is up to 4km thick and it has been deposited by precipitation over hundreds of thousands of years. There is no sign of a flood in the ice cores that have been taken in many parts of the ice cap. Dating the ice cores is rather like tree-ring dating. Each annual deposit leaves a layer and these layers can be counted. We know that these layers are annual bcause some layers are marked by deposits from known volcanic eruptions. The date of the eruption of Vesuvius when it buried Pompeii, for instance, is known and that occurs in the ice cores exactly where you would expect it. The last partial melting of ice caps and the consequent sea level rise was about 8000 -10000 years ago. The sea levels rose to where they are today. There never has been a global flood and such an event as described in Genesis is impossible.

Answer 3

I always say that how can we think that millions of automobiles on highways around the globe don't cause damage to the environment? With all of the freak weather conditions happening, I'm sure that global warming has something to do with it.

Answer 4

It's certainly not helping. I'm in Wisconcin and it flooded here too, but didn't do any damage to this house

Answer 5

I don't know, but I wouldn't doubt it. Not only that, but there were major floods in the UK earlier this year, too.