British and Chinese understanding of global warming has led to record flooding. The United States? Not so much.

Although we do not know that most of the media in the U.S. , to record “once in a hundred years flood” West now seems to be every decade, more or less exactly what scientists had expected the heat.

A 2004 analysis by the NOAA National Climatic Data Center found a rise during the 20th century by rainfall, temperature, flow, heavy and very heavy rainfall and high flows in the East. “They found an increase of 14 percent” strong rainfall events “More than 2 inches in a day, and an increase of 20 percent” very heavy rainfall events, “best described as the largest Deluge-4 centimeters in a day. These rains are extremely exactly what was expected by warming comprehensive and scientific models.

Indeed, 2007 saw the second most extreme rainfall over the United States in the historical record, according to the NCDC climatic extremes Index (CEI). Here is a land of the percentage of the country (or two), much higher than normal proportion of precipitation derived from extreme 1-day precipitation events (extreme, which is equal to the higher percentile of tenth Deluge):

I do not know that our government has maintained an index extreme weather? Why do you have? The media does not write about it.

U. S. extreme climate index was created expressly to take a complicated subject ( “multiple climate change and multidimensional in the United States”) and to make them easier to understand for citizens and policy makers. As far in 1995, the analysis by the National Climatic Data Center showed that during the 20th century, the United States has suffered a statistically significant improvement in a variety of extreme weather events, which hopefully heating in general as more – and more – precipitation. Analysis concluded that the chances were only “5-10 percent” this increase was due to other factors that global warming, such as natural climate variability. “And since 1995, the climate has become more extreme .

I have followed this issue, the link between climate change and extreme weather events very closely – and yet, in 2006, we have not seen a single mention of the index in the media, or even a scientific paper on its initial For more than a decade. Global warming may be a hot topic, and in 2006 was the second year ever more extreme, but try a search on Google News “extreme weather Index” (the quotation marks) – do not get to all matches.

Story after story appearing in the mainstream media have no connection with any extreme weather, global warming and disconnected from man-made, a trend that eventually all our lives. The media should do a better job.