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Florida gets hit with deadly tropical storms just about every year. Low-elevation cities on the gulf are susceptible to getting hit. Most areas aren't as populated as Houston, obviously. Is this storm really worse than others of the past 15 or 20 years?
 
Catchall said:
Florida gets hit with deadly tropical storms just about every year. Low-elevation cities on the gulf are susceptible to getting hit. Most areas aren't as populated as Houston, obviously. Is this storm really worse than others of the past 15 or 20 years?
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Are you ****ing serious? Do you see how much rainfall is happening?
 
Catchall said:
Florida gets hit with deadly tropical storms just about every year. Low-elevation cities on the gulf are susceptible to getting hit. Most areas aren't as populated as Houston, obviously. Is this storm really worse than others of the past 15 or 20 years?
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I've only said "record breaking" like 10 times in this thread.
 
For anyone interested, there are at present a wealth of articles discussing the effect of climate change on Hurricane Harvey. Here are a few...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/28/climate-change-hurricane-harvey-more-deadly

http://theweek.com/articles/720740/hurricane-harvey-americas-climate-future

https://www.theatlantic.com/science...ate-change-intensify-hurricane-harvey/538158/

The well above average surface temparure of the waters of the Gulf at the moment, and the greater depth of that warm layer would seem to be a contributing factor, among others, affecting what we are seeing...
 
Red said:
For anyone interested, there are at present a wealth of articles discussing the effect of climate change on Hurricane Harvey. Here are a few...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/28/climate-change-hurricane-harvey-more-deadly

http://theweek.com/articles/720740/hurricane-harvey-americas-climate-future

https://www.theatlantic.com/science...ate-change-intensify-hurricane-harvey/538158/

The well above average surface temparure of the waters of the Gulf at the moment, and the greater depth of that warm layer would seem to be a contributing factor, among others, affecting what we are seeing...
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Nice work, the Guardian had an article only 2 months ago that talked about Houston's vulnerabilty to climate change.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/16/texas-flooding-houston-climate-change-disaster

These "100 year" storms are happening yearly.
 
Can anyone spot the contradiction?? Lol....

"Meanwhile, with Louisiana also on tap for serious flooding as the rains continue and tornadoes threaten, the president quickly displayed a childlike—and uncharacteristic—awe of “experts”: “Wow - Now experts are calling #Harvey a once in 500 year flood!” he tweeted. Who are those experts? They are climate scientists like Michael E. Mann, a Pennsylvania State University professor of atmospheric science, who directs the university’s Earth Systems Science Center.

On Facebook, Mann had this to say about Harvey and climate change:

There are certain climate change-related factors that we can, with great confidence, say worsened the flooding. Not only are the surface waters of the Gulf unusually warm right now, but there is a deep layer of warm water that Harvey was able to feed upon when it intensified at near record pace as it neared the coast. Human-caused warming is penetrating down into the ocean, warming not just the surface but creating deeper layers of warm water in the Gulf and elsewhere. So Harvey was almost certainly more intense than it would have been in the absence of human-caused warming, which means stronger winds, more wind damage, and a larger storm surge.

Now that Trump is dazzled by experts, presumably like Mann, it will be interesting to see how the person who has filled such longtime bastions of science as the EPA with climate deniers responds to those who have linked this event to the warming of waters of the Gulf of Mexico."

http://prospect.org/article/will-harvey-dent-trump’s-climate-change-denial-probably-not
 
Beantown said:
Nice work, the Guardian had an article only 2 months ago that talked about Houston's vulnerabilty to climate change.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/16/texas-flooding-houston-climate-change-disaster

These "100 year" storms are happening yearly.
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One can only hope this serves as a wake up call. But, you know, with so much focus on Trump himself, there needs to be more focus on henchmen like Scott Pruitt:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/us/politics/scott-pruitt-epa.html

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/8/14/16142150/scott-pruitt-epa-secrecy-republican
 
Beantown said:
But it's the government's job to help solve problems.
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so youa re using a storm tha tnormally happens in this reagion once a decade. to get more governement control more laws more regulations.

when i tell you you are using this tragedy as a political tool. you deny it!


this storm is normal!

after katrina global cooling scumbags said this would happen every year. it is 12 years later, and we have a storm like this again! it is NORMAL! it sucks for thos epeople, but these are normal weather patterns


wanna know science? wanna know what effect man has on forest fires?
forest fires are a natural occurrence. but every-time a Forrest fire happens man tries to stop it! that way the fuel for the forest fires builds up, because their is no purge.
so sooner or later their will be a big forest fire men wont be able to stop!
and you climate warming/cooling scumbags will blame it on co2. while science says it is not the fault of co2!
 
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