Can someone please tell me with the flooding going on in Ohio and elsewhere is this due to Global Warming?????

Answer 1

No, it's not due to "global warming". It's due to rain. A tropical storm hit Texas a few weeks ago. That's where all the rain is coming from.

Answer 2

Whilst this research applies to the UK, I'm sure similar effects would be felt in other countries including the USA. Research from Newcastle University released in September 2006, and acknowledged by the MET Office in the United Kingdom found that rainstorms have doubled in intensity in places like eastern Scotland and north-east England.

Whilst rainfall may have slowly increased, rainfall has become sporadic in nature, increasing in intensity, overwhelming current flood management solutions and leading to floods. Storms are also becoming more intense in autumn, threatening flood defences. The increased frequency of such downpours will lead to more severe flooding like those experienced in Boscastle in north Cornwall in 2004, and across the UK this Summer.

If the trend continues, there is likely to be increased flooding over the coming years which has major implications for flood risk management.

The research also predicted that the five million people in the UK who live near to rivers can expected to be flooded with increasing regularity in the future.

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Answer 3

Global Climate Models (GCMs) run on supercomputers at various research organizations predict that global warming will produce “more extremes more often.” That said, you cannot say that “this flood or storm is due to global warming.” All you can do is look at the climate record for Ohio, count the number and severity of storms per year (or per longer periods) and use statistics to determine whether the number and severity of storms producing floods are greater than to be expected in previous, cooler years. You may come to the conclusion that the number of severe storms is increasing (probably due to global warming) but you can never say “this or that storm is due to global warming.”

A simple example: If you have a 9-shot .22 revolver with only 1 bullet in the cylinder, if you spin the cylinder randomly before each tried shot at a target, you will get 1 shot off out of 9 on the average over a large number of tries. Put a second round into the cylinder, and you will get 2 out of 9 shots off over a large number of tries. Then you can safely say that adding the second bullet increased the number of fires. But you cannot say that ANY ONE shot was due to having a second bullet in the revolver unless the cylinder chambers were marked. Storms don’t come with marks, do they?

the above said, let me add this:

It appears that the frequency of severe rain events (that could lead to flooding) has increased over the last century in the eastern US including Ohio. A good review article that you can download and read for yourself is:

Observed variability and trends in extreme climate events: a brief review .

This can be downloaded from http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/pub/data/special/extr-bams2.pdf

The following website may also be of interest to you, http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/severeweather/extremes.html

I hope this helps.

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Answer 4

I lived here all my life and it has flooded normally in the southern part of the state. My friend who is way older said that her relatives have lived in southern ohio generations and they always flood out every 5-10 years or so. It is a low lying area.

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Answer 5

It's a mistake to attribute any single weather event to global warming. Or to say any single event proves/disproves it.

That said, the changing weather patterns due to global warming will no doubt cause more adverse weather in the future. We've been blessed with an unusually stable climate, and that's changing.

Answer 6

According to the Greenies, all "bad" weather related conditions are caused by man-made "global warming." The only exception is that colder than normal weather does not count.. Those are just "exceptions".

Answer 7

No, it's just weather. Periodic floods alternating with periodic drought are simply a fact of life on the great plains.

Answer 8

Of course it is. So was the drought we had before it finally started raining. Everything is due to global warming. To hot, to cold, to wet, to dry, all of it due to global warming. Even Al Gores growing bank account is due to global warming.

Answer 9

No. Not unless there are many deaths and horrible photos to go along with it to be used as propaganda. Then it will be a 100% undeniable scientific fact beyond debate.

Answer 10

While not far to your south there's a record drought.

If only there could be a better distribution of weather.