{"id":390114,"date":"2025-07-21T12:18:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=390114"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:18:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:18:51","slug":"media-pushes-texas-flood-climate-change-hysteria-history-and-data-say-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=390114","title":{"rendered":"Media Pushes Texas Flood \u201cClimate Change\u201d Hysteria, History and Data Say Otherwise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Anthony Watts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the aftermath of the tragic Texas Hill Country flooding, a barrage of mainstream media outlets, including; CBS Texas<\/a> \u201cHistory warned of the Central Texas flood: Why the danger on the Guadalupe River wasn\u2019t a surprise,\u201d CNN<\/a> \u201cHow climate change made Texas flooding more violent,\u201d and San Antonio Current<\/em><\/a> \u201cBill Nye the Science Guy calls for fossil fuel ban as death toll from Texas flood continues to rise,\u201d have advanced the narrative that climate change is turning extreme weather and deadly floods into a \u201cnew normal.\u201d These claims are wrong, misleading, and, frankly, do a disservice to public understanding of Texas flood risk. The historical and scientific record shows no significant trend toward more frequent or severe heat waves or floods in this region. The evidence instead points to a simple, unchanging fact: Floods have happened here for millennia, long before SUVs and coal fired power plants, and will continue as long as the Guadalupe River flows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the most absurd quote comes from the San Antonio Current<\/em>, in which Bill Nye declares:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other than installing early flood warning systems in flood-prone areas, Nye said the only way prevent similar tragedies in the future is for Congress to enact a total fossil fuel ban to curb the effects of climate change. He added that humans\u2019 alterations to the climate have been scientifically proven to exacerbate flooding events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calling for the elimination of fossil fuels as the only<\/em> solution to flooding on a river that\u2019s been flooding since before the invention of the steamboat is not a scientific argument, but a political one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s be clear: flooding along the Guadalupe River is neither new nor \u201ccaused\u201d by today\u2019s climate. The very first line in the CBS Texas report actually gets it right: \u201cTexas hydrologists working with the National Weather Service say they recognized the conditions last Thursday that could lead to catastrophic flooding on the Guadalupe River. And they say, based on past events, this kind of outcome was a known risk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The area\u2019s own official safety guide<\/a> states:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you live in the Guadalupe River Basin, you also live in one of the three most dangerous regions in the U.S.A. for flash floods! Local residents and weather experts refer to the Texas Hill Country as \u2018Flash Flood Alley,\u2019 because heavy rainfall and runoff from creeks and streams can cause rapid rises and flooding in a matter of hours\u2026 The Guadalupe River experienced major floods in 1936, 1952, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1987, 1991 and 1997<\/em><\/strong>. Last year\u2019s flood of October 1998 developed in a matter of hours, broke most existing records, exceeded the 100-year flood plain, and inundated areas that had never been flooded before. But floods are not predictable. They do not follow measured cycles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that the area has been previously named as \u201cFlash Flood Alley,\u201d complete with it\u2019s own Wikipedia page<\/a>, which states: \u201cFlash Flood Alley is an area of Central Texas<\/a> that is considered the most flash-flood<\/a> prone region in the United States,\u201d should negate any climate change claims about the most recent flood all by itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not a fossil-fuel problem, it\u2019s a geography<\/em> problem. Texas Hill Country\u2019s steep terrain, rocky ground, and narrow riverbeds react rapidly to intense rain, making the region prone to sudden, severe flooding. The river has repeatedly exceeded historic flood levels even when atmospheric CO2 was much lower than it is today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s review the record\u2014because, unlike much of the modern media, data matters more than opinion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n