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She then literally suggest I do a search for flooding, telling me I'll find the word passages she quotes above Sure, but you also have to read them — again, they tell us that warming might influence future flooding, but can't explain current higher and lower floodingpic.twitter.com/k7BlQVap9Y

Now we get to the harsh stuff. Apparently, I'm lying because I correctly quote the US Climate Assessment's correct quote of the UN Climate Panelpic.twitter.com/UK4D9x1r8b

And here is her piece-de-resistance: That there is another part of the US NCA that says "In fact, across the midwestern United States, statistically significant increases in flooding are well documented." She is so happy with this, she repeats it three timespic.twitter.com/1zXrtgDLon

But this passage does not say, what she thinks it says. It says we've documented that there is more flooding in the Midwest. But that is exactly what the US NCA conclusion, I showed, says: There are documented/detectable both increases and decreases of flooding in the USpic.twitter.com/KiLNbJupRV

But right after that, the US NCA correctly say, that we can't attribute either to climate change. It really isn't all that complicatedpic.twitter.com/e1MExeTHWL

Yet, Dr. Guenther claims she just documented "established local links between climate change and extreme weather" She didn't. She showed documented increases in Midwest, but the NCA (not IPCC, as she claims) says these cannot be attributed to climate https://twitter.com/DoctorVive/status/1108152842953596934 …pic.twitter.com/ovXPmRyq7X

It is fascinating how the feeling that climate must be causing this flooding, simply overrules that the NCA says that we can't link this to climate See her giddy excitement for all the references, but without properly understanding the text and contextpic.twitter.com/zJGpvnevbY

Just look at the impact of US flooding. The cost of flooding has declined dramatically over the past century (measured as % GDP, since as we get richer, an identical flooding will flood two, more expensive houses rather than one)pic.twitter.com/PYrTVa27l6

And cost of flooding, with any realistic adaptation, will likely continue to go down (although the cost of adaptation will be a real cost of climate) http://www.pnas.org/content/111/9/3292 …pic.twitter.com/f65as17ZHd

Dr. Guenther claims I don't want people to know the truth No. I don't want misinformation saying that flood increases are due to climate when this is not supported by science Suggesting it is okay to make false claims to make people care is morally unsupportablepic.twitter.com/obcavWL7UA

Finally, Dr. Guenther shows her class by venting without substance My work is about us spending $ to help best If over-worry on climate, we likely do badly (eg helping future flood victims with ineffective, expensive CO₂ cuts, rather than effective, better flood management)pic.twitter.com/dYTQLOXJUg