tag:gaia.com,2008,:Gaia http://groups.gaia.com/climate_change/discussions/feeds/thread/305769 en-us 1 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:13:20 GMT Gaia: CLIMATE CHANGE - Facts, News, Research, Resources, and Intelligent Opinions - Global warming causes deluges and flooding, just like the Midwest http://coolmel.gaia.com ~C4Chaos tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-305769 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:13:20 GMT http://groups.gaia.com/climate_change/conversations/view/305769 <p> (via <a href="http://climateprogress.org/2008/06/12/global-warming-causes-deluges-and-flooding-just-like-the-midwest-is-seeing/">Climate Progress</a>)<br /><h2><a rel="bookmark" href="http://climateprogress.org/2008/06/12/global-warming-causes-deluges-and-flooding-just-like-the-midwest-is-seeing/" title="Permanent Link: Global warming causes deluges and flooding, just like the Midwest is seeing (again)">Global warming causes deluges and flooding, just like the Midwest is seeing (again)</a></h2><br /><strong><a href="http://climateprogress.org/2007/08/05/a-deluge-of-extreme-weather-thanks-to-climate-change/">The British and the Chinese understand global warming has driven their record flooding</a>. The United States? Not so much.</strong> <p><strong>Although you wouldn&rsquo;t know it from most U.S. media coverage (<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/06/08/severe.weather/?iref=mpstoryview">here</a> or <a href="http://www.wtov9.com/weather/16555860/detail.html">here</a> or <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&amp;sid=a.tRcCbWz.zk">here</a>), the record &ldquo;once-in-a-hundred-year flooding&rdquo; the Midwest now seems to be getting every decade or so is precisely what scientists have been expecting from the warming.</strong></p><p><strong><a href="http://climateprogress.org/2008/06/12/global-warming-causes-deluges-and-flooding-just-like-the-midwest-is-seeing/">Read more</a>.</strong></p><br /><br /> </p>