{"id":349980,"date":"2024-11-03T09:10:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T08:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=349980"},"modified":"2024-11-03T09:10:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T08:10:29","slug":"a-history-of-catastrophic-flooding-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=349980","title":{"rendered":"A History Of Catastrophic Flooding In\u00a0Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some people believe we never had floods before fossil fuels:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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But real scientists know that there is a long history of catastrophic floods in Spain:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Catastrophic are defined as<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Below are maps of just the Large Catastrophic Events, where catastrophic inundations affected two or more basins:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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The bottom panel is for Very Large events, affecting four or more basins. All told, they have identified a total of 589 catastrophic inundations, using documentary evidence, mostly since the 16thC when reliable records became generally available.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 1617 floods were particularly severe, affecting both Catalonia and Valencia. As the paper notes, the floods were worse than any recorded modern times.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Historian Geoffrey Parker. in his book \u201c<\/strong>Global Crisis<\/strong><\/a>\u201d which researched the cataclysmic weather wrought during the Little Ice Age, notes that Catalonia suffered the \u201cyear of the flood\u201d in 1617, after a month of continuous rain, followed by a four day downpour which washed away bridges, mills, drainage works, houses and even town walls.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ten years later, Europe experienced its wettest summer for 500 years. And while Catalonia was hit by disastrous droughts in the 1640s, Andalusia had its wettest ever period between 1640 and 1643.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These floods and droughts in Spain were typical of the sort of extreme weather seen around the world, all caused by global cooling.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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