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Post by bluemingidiot on Aug 19, 2018 5:50:45 GMT
The town hall was co-hosted by the Houston Climate Movement and the Union of Concerned Scientists, a Massachusetts based organization. A "climate resilience analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists, was the featured speaker and laid out a series of troubling predictions of high-tide flooding in coming years in Texas and along the U.S. coastline." She said her group’s analysis showed that in Texas 10,000 homes, with a $2.2 billion total value, could be lost by 2045 due to chronic flooding. It would affect 17,000 people and have a $3.8 million impact on the tax base, she said. In addition, her group predicts that by 2060, more than 60 percent of Bolivar Peninsula would flood on average twice a month. www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Climate-change-event-heats-up-when-Harvey-victims-13166149.php?ipid=hpctpThe purpose of such gatherings is to implant enough fear in the public so that they will impelled politicians to spend billions of dollars to create a dystopian future which will continue to have climatic catastrophes no matter what we do. Hurricane Harvey was a Category 4 storm that hit Texas on August 25, 2017. It caused $ 125 billion in damage according to the National Hurricane Center. That should be our present priority. Going to be more major hurricanes between now and 2045 and there is nothing we can do to stop them. Just work towards moving people and businesses out of their way. As many as 13 million people were affected by this storm.
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Post by Txsteader on Sept 23, 2018 17:35:28 GMT
Interestingly, a year after Harvey, officials here are saying that communities don't have enough money to do even 25% of the proposed projects to alleviate flooding.
Harvey's damage was compounded by the fact that it stalled right on top of us. Something similar happened in '79 when Tropical Storm Claudette stalled and dumped a record-breaking 42" of rain on us. At the time, that was the highest 24-hour rainfall total in the entire US. Harvey broke that record.
Frankly, I don't understand why the US is sending millions of dollars to underdeveloped countries via the UN, so they can deal with the projected effects of global warming, rather that taking care of our own communities. But that seems typical these days.
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