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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (32188)	9/1/2017 11:39:46 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361175

This is where he ran off the rails: >> But those estimates are based on historical data. And so have others. There is no historical data that tells us how many inches of rain was dumped on Houston by a hurricane 500 years ago. There just isn't. The oldest streamgages (from which the actual measurements are taken) in the United States go back a little over 100 years and there were very few then. In fact, the vast majority were added since the 1960s. And if Mann really wants to make the case, he should produce a function, the partial with respect to temperature, that shows someone how 2 degrees could account for a storm dumping 50" of rain on Houston. And frankly, let's see how much rain other storms are producing. Some fool has now started calling it a "1000 year flood" with absolutely no basis, whatsoever for that claim. And believe me, it will be known as a 1000 year flood and if someone called it a 2500 year flood they would do that, too. This is the same thing that goes on with Global Warming all the time. Speculation, exaggeration, attention-getting. The Texas Flood is like nothing we've seen before. But in 1927 a flood took over 1/5 of the state I live in, along with vast areas of Louisiana, Mississippi, on up the river. A friend's parents spent a solid month living on the roof of their house in McGehee. I don't know how much it rained but it sure as hell flooded. Let's see the math, if he really wants to convince someone. But you remember what happened when he tried to do the math before, right? You guys are still apologizing for it.