Has Global Warming Caused More Mississippi River Floods As Predicted By Climate Models?
Read here. Previously, science had confirmed that the Parana River in S. America had not suffered from the predicted increased flooding due to global warming. In another peer-reviewed study, the same conclusion was reached for the Mississippi River. Although flooding may have increased, it was man-made engineering that caused increased flooding, not CO2-induced global warming. “Pinter et al. report that “significant climate- and/or land use-driven increases in flow were detected,” but they say that “the largest and most pervasive [our italics] contributors to increased flooding on the Mississippi River system were wing dikes and related navigational structures, followed by progressive levee construction.”…..In discussing the implications of their findings, Pinter et al.
