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By: bosskitty

bosskitty — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:02:24 +0000

Thank you Gideon. History has successes and failures to show us. But, we have to actually look at history through a clear lens … there are so few clear lenses.

By: Gideon

Gideon — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:32:34 +0000

Your title of “So Many Red Rivers” reminds me that man does not learn very much from history.
If anything, history should be our best teacher… that is not yet the case.

Gideon Mukwai, CEM
http://www.1xtramile.com

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By: bosskitty

bosskitty — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:01:56 +0000

Thank you for the great link Tom. I agree that Global Warming is not the issue anymore. Being prepared for whatever nature has in mind is what has been forgotten. What humanity has contributed to all the natural cycles of Mother Earth is pollution. Mother Earth will always express herself, the ancients knew that and gave other explanations. Modern civilization has lost touch with earth and demonstrated it by becoming clueless to extreme cycles that we call disasters. They are disasters because we behave like they will never happen … we build on flood plains, on shallow coastland, beside volcanoes and on top of tectonic fault lines. The human race will have to recover some ancient understanding before it can be tuned into Mother Earth again.
You have inspired me to add part of this comment to this post, thanks again.

By: tommoriarty

tommoriarty — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:03:32 +0000

See herefor links to a very nice USGS poster about the history of Red River flooding and its causes. The “landform factors” and “Weather factors” mentioned in the poster are laid out in the post and addressed one by one. The bottom line: Extremely high precipitation in the fall saturated the soil. Then temperatures dropped to record lows in mid-December through mid March. Then the temperatures rose to above normal for about two weeks in the last half of March. The Red River finally crested at about 40.8 feet, slightly higher than the previous record of 40.1 feet in 1897. I think that even Barack Obama would agree that the 1897 flood was not due to global warming. So where is it between 40.1 feet and 40.8 feet that global warming becomes obviously responsible? Best regards ClimateSanity