The Patriot Post® · Alarmists, Then & Now

In 1974, Time magazine ran a story warning that global cooling was resulting in excessive rainfall in parts of the world. “During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries,” they wrote. “Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.” But after an epic storm swept over the eastern U.S. this week, bringing over two feet of rain to parts of the Gulf Coast and widespread flooding up the Eastern Seaboard, alarmists now blame global warming. Al Gore says rising temperatures are “making events like this worse” (earth’s not warming, by the way), and Princeton professor and IPCC member Michael Oppenheimer cited a Climate Central article linking heavy rains to a “warming” world. For the record, as just one example, 28.50" of rain fell in Smethport, Pennsylvania in July 1942 – in three hours. Check out the list below for more rainfall records across the U.S. Note that none of these occurred later than 1996. (H/T: Steven Goddard.)