The RoanokeSlant

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RT: Stop Dispensing FUD: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
It detracts from your sterling record of being fair and balanced
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Roanoke Times, (Virginian Pilot) 10-8-2021, Pg A7, Opinion: Flood Insurance and Global Warming
https://roanoke.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-long-overdue-flood-insurance-reform-should-encourage-resilience-improve-fairness/article_8e84cf49-2848-5495-85f9-ce4369b4a5c8.html
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Insurance-reform-should-encourage-resilience-improve-fairness/
“Extreme weather events responsible for destructive flooding are more frequent with each passing year. Climate change makes them more severe and harmful, and threaten property once thought safe from danger.
In short, it is a vastly different world now. Temperatures continue to increase, seas continue to warm, flooding is growing more frequent, widespread and destructive.”
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Who wrote this tripe?
There is NO factual data to demonstrate that AGW Global Warming has caused more severe flooding nationally, in Virginia or in the Roanoke Valley.
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Nationally the Mississippi River Flood of May 1927 was the largest in US history and occurred well before any significant CO2:
Most destructive river flood in the history of the U.S.; 500 killed; 600,000 homeless
The sheer landmass involved in this 1927 flood makes it incredibly noteworthy. Across Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, some 16 million acres of land (26,000 square miles) were inundated with water from the mighty Mississippi.
At Vicksburg, Mississippi, May 1927 the river was 80 miles wide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mississippi_Flood_of_1927
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http://www.britannica.com/event/Mississippi-River-flood-of-1927
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The largest Roanoke Flood was in 1985, again before significant CO2 build-up.
https://roanoke.com/gallery/from-the-archives-the-flood-of-1985/collection_d474f39c-53a5-5fa0-89c4-640da9b27307.html#1
The flood killed 10 people in the Roanoke Valley and damages were estimated at $225 million; 3,100 damaged homes and businesses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Election_Day_floods
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The Virginia coastal flooding is Not caused by CO2 build-up but is the result of hundreds of years of InterGlacial action and land sinking (Subsidence).
Tucked away in a USGS document is the Reality of “Land Subsidence and Relative Sea-Level Rise in the Southern Chesapeake Bay Region”
https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1392/pdf/circ1392.pdf
Table 3, Pg 23:
Ave global sea level rise = +1.8 mm/yr = 180 mm / 100 years = 7.2-inch
Ave land subsidence (sinking) = -3.1 mm/yr = -310 mm / 100 years = -12.4-inch
Net ‘apparent’ rise = 4.9 mm/yr of which land sinking-subsidence = 63%
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-scientific-american-not-very.html
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NBC Sounds Sea Level Alarm at Virginia Navy Base – With No Sea Level Acceleration
https://climaterealism.com/2021/10/nbc-sounds-sea-level-alarm-at-navy-base-with-no-sea-level-acceleration/
“NBC News local affiliate WAVY channel 10 in Virginia’s Portsmouth-Norfolk-Hampton viewing market published an article this past week blaming global warming for local sea-level rise that allegedly threatens naval facilities. In reality, objective tidal gauge records in the Norfolk region show no acceleration of sea level rise.”
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For those who continue to be adversely affected by Roanoke River flooding you can reflect that taxpayers spent over $72-Million dollars for River Bank Beautification for you.
Good News: your Snail Darters are now OFF the endangered list.
Bad News: your LogPerch are still on – so – No Real Flood Control for you yet!
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Roanoke Flooded Again – Thank The Snail Darter and Log Perch
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/11/roanoke-flooded-again-thank-snail.html
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Roanoke Renames Failed $72-Million Flood Control Project
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/09/roanoke-renames-failed-72-million-flood.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/03/roanoke-flooding-disaster-and-media.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/04/roanoke-flood-insurance-high-because-of.html
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Monday hearing seeks ideas for spending Roanoke's $65 million in pandemic relief money
https://roanoke.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/monday-hearing-seeks-ideas-for-spending-roanokes-65-million-in-pandemic-relief-money/article_6be70358-0680-11ec-adf6-f798487102db.html#tncms-source=login
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 3:42 PM