There's probably been high water or drought somewhere on earth ever since long before Noah built his ark. But in his case it was of literally biblical proportions. Since Noah's view of the world's extent was rather limited, we can't know exactly how much of the Green Planet was flooded.
Reuters, the international news agency, keeps very close tabs on unpleasant weather affairs that add credence to the rapid climate change fears reverberating through the media.
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In this case, it's the flooding in the southern Brazilian Taquari River valley, said to be the worst in 80 years. To put this in perspective, according to someone's records, 80 years ago the flooding was even more severe. But we aren't told about the frequency and extent of floods that may have occurred prior to the 1944 inundation. They may have been a regular event, as is the case with many rivers. The Lena River in Siberia, flowing due north, floods almost every spring, as does the Red River of the North that forms the North Dakota-Minnesota border and continues on to Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, the world's 11th largest lake. Nobody can remember when these rivers didn't flood so the fact that they continue to do so means that people are either foolish to live near their banks or willing to accept the inconvenience of wading through water to get from the living room to the kitchen. A small increase in global temperatures, if such a thing can even be measured in a meaningful way, is unlikely to change the flow of major rivers.
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