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Another one from WaPo mentioning 5 different 1-in-1000 year flooding events, in the US alone: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/23/flo
by bmismyname 4y ago
Another one from WaPo mentioning 5 different 1-in-1000 year flooding events, in the US alone:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/23/flood-united-states-climate-explainer/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/2...
One or two events is a coincidence, 5 unlikely events within the span of a few weeks is a pattern.
- raymondh 4y agoWaPo leans heavily toward fitting the news to its narratives and is generally terrible with data science. Whether and to what extent these 5 unlikely events is an anomaly depends on the number of measurement locations and the expected year-to-year variability. If there were 5,000 reporting sites, would we be surprised by "5 different 1-in-1000 year flooding events" in one year? Climate change is real, but so are enthymemes and low quality news reporting.
- carapace 4y agoYeah, if there's one thing we all collectively learn from the last couple of decades I hope it's that data is better than blather.