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Some climate campaigners love to toss around the word “unprecedented” in describing extreme weather phenomena. It’s as if they never read the seminal papers on truly extreme storminess over northeastern North America in recent millenniums or extreme drought patterns in sub-Saharan Africa. It’s sobering to recall that the 2002 paper on storminess shows that the epic damage from Vermont’s “flood of record” in 1927, seen in the video above, is a pale shadow of past scouring superfloods in the region.
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