The great state of North Dakota is flooding.  Beings that it is my home state, and I have a lot of family there, what happens in the state interests me much more than, say, someone who can’t place it on a map of the USA.  Additionally, North Dakota is one of the last bastions of freedom and true American principles.  If you’ve lived there and worked there you’d understand.

As I have said, and as you may already be aware from TV, Internet, or print news, North Dakota is flooding.  The Fargo area is not the only flood area, where the Red River is going to potentially crest at 41 feet, a record and an inevitable disaster.  Bismarck, the state capital, and the nearby area is also flooding, as are various other small towns every direction from there.  And you know why this is, don’t you?  Think Al Gore.  Frighteningly, Obama agrees 100% with this as well.  Obama actually said that the flooding in North Dakota is due to “global warming.”  When my co-worker told me this on Tuesday I likely had the biggest dumbfounded look on my face for no less than ten seconds.

How ignorant is Obama, particularly on this topic with this issue?  Apparently Obama does not understand how North Dakota is flooding, but it is so fashionable to blame any and every weather disaster on “global warming.”  These floods are occurring for the exact opposite reason; if it was warmer these disasters would never happen.  What Obama doesn’t know, which takes all of thirty seconds to find out, is that the Bismarck area is flooding because of huge ice jams in the Missouri River nearby and the Fargo area is flooding because they built on a north flowing river, not the fault of “global warming,” and due to that, the water has no place to drain to the north in Canada because Lake Winnipeg is still frozen.

Ice jams impede water flow.  In order to alleviate the ice jams they must be broken up or otherwise make it possible for water to pass through them.  If this “global warming” thing was happening things would take care of themselves.  Then Bismarck wouldn’t flood.  Sorry, Obama, wrong here.  Fargo is much the same; between Fargo and Lake Winnipeg it is something like 222 miles of distance and the elevation drops only something like 179 feet.  In other words it is flat and there is no place for gravity to pull the water down, thus it spreads out.  And with Lake Winnipeg frozen the water cannot drain into it, again, the water spreads out.  So if “global warming” was actually happening it would greatly help with a thawed lake that could accept water.  Oh, and the river rose so high in the first place partly because of all of the snow that accumulated during the winter that melted in the river all at once.  If this was rain, however, obviously it would not have accumulated and not infiltrate the river all at once.  Again, “global warming” would have taken care of things by itself.

Additionally, during this whole mess, when most of North Dakota is in flash flood warnings, it is also a blistering 19 degrees today in Bismarck and they had blizzard warnings a day or two ago.  I’m sorry, but I am having a hard time seeing this “global warming” thing that Obama is talking about, how it is at fault for the flooding North Dakota wide.  I think “global warming” needs the scapegoat award of the century.  On the contrary, “global warming” would have alleviated this whole thing to begin with!  Tell that to Al Gore of Barack Obama.  Of course Obama probably used that reason partly due to ignorance and partly due to laziness in the matter.  Whatever the reason is, though, I’m tired of this scapegoat being used for everything.  I’m also tired of Obama lying to me and to everyone, regardless of the topic, by speaking half-truths, at best, and not keeping promises.

President Obama, how has this scapegoat called “global warming” caused the great state of North Dakota to flood?