by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder
As appearing in the Daily Caller
Were the deadly Texas floods that struck on the Fourth of July the product of manmade global warming and Trump budget cuts? The fake news media sure wants you to come to that conclusion.
The first report I saw on the tragedy was in the Washington Post on the morning of July 5. As the newspaper has for decades been a fierce propagandist in favor of what President Trump calls the “climate hoax,” I expected it to be the first to try linking the flooding with global warming.
Instead, the Post placed the tragedy in the context of a deadly flash flooding incidentthat occurred in the same region in July 1987: “Ten teenagers were killed and 33 others were injured on July 16, 1987, when a bus and van leaving a church camp encountered floodwaters caused by 5 to 10 inches of rainfall in the upper headwaters of the Guadalupe River basin.”
So it wasn’t global warming. A similar event had happened before. In fact, much worse flooding had occurred more than a century earlier in July when the Guadalupe River had risen by a whopping 42.3 feet.
