{"id":373787,"date":"2025-04-05T19:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T17:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=373787"},"modified":"2025-04-05T19:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T17:18:15","slug":"study-ancient-mega-floods-dwarf-todays-extremes-but-you-wont-hear-that-on-the-evening-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=373787","title":{"rendered":"Study: Ancient Mega-floods Dwarf Today\u2019s Extremes \u2014 But You Won\u2019t Hear That on the Evening News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"356\" data-attachment-id=\"373792\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=373792\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0-Ancient-Megafloods.jpeg?fit=1356%2C668&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1356,668\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0 Ancient Megafloods\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0-Ancient-Megafloods.jpeg?fit=723%2C356&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0-Ancient-Megafloods.jpeg?resize=723%2C356&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-373792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0-Ancient-Megafloods.jpeg?resize=1024%2C504&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0-Ancient-Megafloods.jpeg?resize=300%2C148&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0-Ancient-Megafloods.jpeg?resize=768%2C378&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0-Ancient-Megafloods.jpeg?resize=1200%2C591&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0-Ancient-Megafloods.jpeg?w=1356&amp;ssl=1 1356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2025\/04\/04\/study-ancient-megafloods-dwarf-todays-extremes-but-you-wont-hear-that-on-the-evening-news\/\">Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/author\/wattsupwiththat\/\">Anthony Watts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>New paleo evidence reveals floods in Earth\u2019s past that were hundreds of times larger than anything we\u2019ve seen recently \u2014 and had nothing to do with CO\u2082.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThe past is not dead. It\u2019s not even past.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2014 William Faulkner<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The media\u2019s appetite for climate catastrophe never seems to get full. Virtually every flood event now comes packaged with breathless declarations of \u201cunprecedented\u201d intensity and grim warnings of fossil-fueled doom. But a new study covered by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-03-paleo-reveal-ancient-deluges-dwarf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Phys.org<\/a>&nbsp;just threw a mammoth-sized monkey wrench into that narrative \u2014 quite literally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researchers examining Paleo flood evidence in the Pacific Northwest have found that\u00a0<strong>ancient deluges during the last Ice Age were not just bigger, they were so massive that they make modern floods look like puddle-jumping<\/strong>. In some cases, peak discharges\u00a0<strong>exceeded 10 million cubic meters per second<\/strong>, compared to just tens of thousands for modern floods \u2014 including extreme ones like the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/lsx\/1993flood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1993 Mississippi River flood<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s be clear: these were natural events, happening 12,000 to 18,000 years ago, long before coal plants, internal combustion engines, or UN climate conferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G_LRo3wIT34?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new study builds on decades of work around the&nbsp;<strong>Missoula Floods<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 a series of truly biblical floods unleashed when glacial ice dams repeatedly failed, releasing the waters of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glacial_Lake_Missoula\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Glacial Lake Missoula<\/a>&nbsp;across eastern Washington and beyond. These floods:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Moved boulders the size of houses,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Left behind\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/recarea\/crgnsa\/recreation\/recarea\/?recid=29986\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">giant ripple marks<\/a>\u00a0visible from the air,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Carved out entire canyons and scab-lands,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Created sediment fans and slackwater deposits hundreds of feet deep.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Modern researchers are now using LiDAR, stratigraphy, and radiocarbon dating to map these features in exquisite detail \u2014 and what they\u2019re finding is unmistakable:&nbsp;<strong>nature has produced floods on a scale we can barely comprehend<\/strong>, entirely without the help of SUVs, coal power plants, or increased atmospheric CO\u2082.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why This Changes the Flood Narrative\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>1. \u201cUnprecedented\u201d? Not Even Close.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Natural Variability Still Reigns Supreme<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the most abused words in climate reporting is&nbsp;<em>\u201cunprecedented.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;We saw it used in the wake of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/pakistan\/pakistan-unprecedented-flooding-briefing-note-24-august-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pakistan floods in 2022<\/a>, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-57858829\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">German floods of 2021<\/a>, and countless others. But paleo-hydrological data remind us that&nbsp;<strong>extreme floods are not new, and they are not inherently human-caused<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Labeling every modern flood as evidence of climate breakdown, without acknowledging the geological record, is either bad science or bad faith \u2014 sometimes both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>2. Natural Variability Still Reigns Supreme<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What this new study really underscores is something skeptics have been saying for years:&nbsp;<strong>you cannot meaningfully assess modern extremes without understanding natural variability<\/strong>. The Earth\u2019s climate and hydrologic systems have long been capable of producing massive, abrupt, and destructive events. Pretending otherwise is a political act, not a scientific one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s also worth noting that attribution science \u2014 the process by which modelers \u201clink\u201d extreme events to climate change \u2014 typically relies on modern observational datasets going back only to the 1950s or so. These models almost never account for&nbsp;<strong>long-term geologic-scale extremes<\/strong>, like those revealed in studies like this one. That\u2019s a glaring omission, and one that calls into question the reliability of claims like \u201cclimate change made this flood worse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2023\/12\/10\/extreme-weather-attribution-and-the-scientific-illusion-of-certainty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Attribution science\u2019s weak foundations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Models Can\u2019t Handle This Scale of Flooding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s be blunt: if a flood today rivaled the scale of the Missoula outbursts,&nbsp;<strong>every climate model would be off the charts \u2014 and every climate reporter would blame it on carbon emissions<\/strong>. But these floods happened naturally. They were driven by&nbsp;<strong>glacial mechanics<\/strong>, not greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your climate model cannot reproduce the known history of past megafloods,&nbsp;<strong>why should we trust its projections for the year 2100<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Final Thoughts: A Lesson in Humility<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This new study serves as a powerful reminder that the natural world is not tame, not linear, and not bound by human carbon cycles. It has produced extremes far beyond what we\u2019ve seen in our brief observational window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So the next time someone insists that a big flood is proof of man-made climate collapse or crisis, or the&nbsp;<em>doom de jour<\/em>, send them a link to this study. Then ask them why&nbsp;<strong>they\u2019re ignoring the evidence carved into the Earth itself<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And remember: history didn\u2019t start in 1979 \u2014 even if most climate narratives do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Further Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/news\/national-news-release\/missoula-floods-ice-age-megafloods-pacific-northwest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Missoula Floods \u2013 USGS Overview<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.usgs.gov\/sir\/2012\/5123\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LiDAR Mapping of Pleistocene Flood Channels<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/tag\/extreme-weather-attribution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WUWT on Extreme Weather Attribution<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Want to see more skeptical deep dives like this?<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/plans-support-climate-realism-choose-the-membership-that-fits-you-best\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Subscribe to wattsupwiththat.com<\/a>&nbsp;and support independent science journalism that questions the climate narrative \u2013 plus get exclusive content available only to subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New paleo evidence reveals floods in Earth\u2019s past that were hundreds of times larger than anything we\u2019ve seen recently \u2014 and had nothing to do with 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