Disastrous Flooding Consistent with Global Warming Predictions
Madison, Wis. - The disastrous floods that ravaged southern Wisconsin this week are consistent with global warming predictions according to a January 2007 Clean Wisconsin report. The report, "Global Warming Arrives in Wisconsin," forecast that global warming would lead to increased instances of severe droughts, more intense floods and increased snowfall.
"In the year and a half since the release of this report, we have seen a summer of extreme drought end with intense flooding, a winter of record snowfall and now a spring ending with some of the worst flooding in recent memory," said Keith Reopelle, Senior Policy Director at Clean Wisconsin, the state's largest environmental advocacy organization. "Many of the impacts of global warming are occurring much sooner than predicted."
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From the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources site: "We have had floods as long as there have been rivers. But not until we began to develop our floodplains did floods become a significant threat to our lives and property."
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