"Reminds me of the Little Ice Age floods that wiped out the bridge in Avignon.
Floodwaters along the rain-engorged Seine River are threatening towns downstream from Paris, said an article today from the AP.
The national weather service said that “January has seen nearly double normal rainfall nationwide, and that the rains in the past two months are the highest measured for the period in 50 years.
The article then went on to warn (of course) that France’s heaviest rains in 50 years have “raised concerns about climate change.”
Those floods raise my concerns, too.
But not because of so-called “climate change.”
Instead, they remind me of the Little Ice Age floods that wiped out the bridge in Avignon.
...Unfortunately, Little-Ice-Age floods destroyed it..."
Here’s a photo of an artist’s rendering of the Pont d’Avignon that I took while visiting the bridge."
Read on!
The national weather service said that “January has seen nearly double normal rainfall nationwide, and that the rains in the past two months are the highest measured for the period in 50 years.
The article then went on to warn (of course) that France’s heaviest rains in 50 years have “raised concerns about climate change.”
Those floods raise my concerns, too.
But not because of so-called “climate change.”
Instead, they remind me of the Little Ice Age floods that wiped out the bridge in Avignon.
...Unfortunately, Little-Ice-Age floods destroyed it..."
Here’s a photo of an artist’s rendering of the Pont d’Avignon that I took while visiting the bridge."
Read on!
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