Is global warming behind flooding?

So what's the deal with all this wet weather? The Governor says he knows, and he's blaming global climate change! Often it's an answer given to the claim that we're experiencing more floods than we used to. We asked if that theory holds any water.Asking the question 'if climate change has anything to do with this' is a good question to ask but right now the jury's still out, said Andrea Lang, UAlbany Assistant Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science.Still, if you think the phrase for the 'hundred year flood' is out of style, you may be on to something. There's definitely been shifts in regions, that may last on the order of decades, Lang said.Lang watches the map for trends and pushes through the clouds for answers, but there are years of cloudy days to examine.This was only the third wettest June that we've ever had and records have been kept for the last 190 years in Albany, Lang said.No single event can point to global warming, Lang believes. But with every inch of precipitation in the historical rain gauge, a better explanation.We're just now getting to the point where we have enough data to actually say something significant about the events that we're seeing, Lang said.Families in the Mohawk Valley are still fearful that mother nature's anger will be unfairly lost on them again, and th