Posted on 08/31/2017 10:28:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hurricane Harvey presented a golden opportunity to global warming hysterics who are trying mightily to connect the storm's intensity to climate change.
What's truly remarkable is that reporting that is pushing this meme always start out the same way: they deny they are trying to connect hurricanes to global warming:
Scientists are habitually cautious about attributing a single weather event to the long-term increase in global temperature that human beings have begun, and they cannot say with reasonable certainty that climate change caused Hurricane Harvey. In fact, they are still sorting out exactly how global warming affects hurricane formation. It seems likely that an increase in North Atlantic hurricanes is linked to climate change, but scientists cannot confidently rule out some other factor.
Translation: We don't know what causes hurricanes or how they work or even how global warming is supposed to affect hurricanes. But we "know" that global warming is responsible for something.
The skeptical website Watts Up With That exposes that kind of thinking for what it truly is: nonsense.
But hurricanes have always been devastating and deadly, especially in the Gulf of Mexico. Let's take the quintessential example, the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900. (By the way, from what I saw in my work with tree rings, 1900 was one of the hottest years ever in the West.) 6,000 to 12,000 dead – it was so bad they couldn't accurately count – and over 3,600 homes destroyed.
And this was early in the increase in people and wealth in the area. If the Great Galveston Hurricane had come a few years later, even if it had been a weaker hurricane,
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What there’s no doubt about is that construction on and paving of wetlands and other places water could go creates an impossible situation.
The worse problem seems to be people packing into a hurricane vulnerable area with little or no civil defense planning.
This wasn’t a windstorm hurricane.
This was like Tropical Storm Allison in 2001 that dumped water on the area, hung out in the Gulf, picked up more water, and dumped even more on the area.
And the upstream areas flow their water through an already overrun system.
Rather than putting in multinational tollroads and high speed rail, how about an canal or pipeline to channel more of this water to the Gulf?
> True of false: Hurricane Harvey was more intense because of global warming <
True. Everything that is bad has become worse because of global warming. That’s what I hear on TV, anyway.
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"Well, it's a beautiful day for a parade. We take you now to our man in street Steve Smith who is covering the festivities downtown. Is everyone having a good time, Steve?"
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Or for today's topic --
"There was weather today. We take you know to our meteorologist, Steve Smith. Steve, what can you tell us?"
"Well, it's clear proof of Global Warming ..."
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“.....how about an canal or pipeline to channel more of this water to the Gulf”?
I think altitude and gravity would prevent that from being effective. Houston is only 80 feet above sea level.
Houston had 2 dry lake beds and canal ways designed for this exact scenario. However, due to budget shortfalls, the city planners sold of parcels of the lake beds and did nothing to maintain the spillways and levees.
False. It was more intense because of confederate statues in the state /s
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Do you want to know what Houston’s real problem is?
It’s a nice place to live.
No snow to shovel.
Beautiful beaches nearby.
Lots of interesting things to see and do.
People are mostly good and friendly.
Good facilities.
But it’s built where all the water in that area goes to, and it gets hit, pretty regularly, by hurricanes.
It’s a matter of prioritizing.
Is water drainage more important than, let’s say, global warming to the citizens of Houston?
The Mayor has a lot of concerns that seem to be outside his job.
Lots of big city Democrat Mayors behave that way.
I expect any day now to hear some talking head intone that we have President Trump due to Global Warming!
For Houston, it was not a major wind event. However, I do not believe those around Rockport and the rest of the coast would agree about the wind.
It was a Cat 4, so not as intense as it could be.
The rain amounts were due to slow movement and backtracking.
I don’t think Harvey was particularly intense.
Answering the question either way assumes that "global warming" is a fact.
What made this storm a record setter was the pace of the storm and the fact that it stalled and backtracked.
There are no climatologists who will blame this on global warming.
Indirectly....Due to “Globull Warming”, they built thousands of windmills along I-80 to save the earth. Every time we drive through Iowa, Nebraska, and Wyoming, all the windmills are facing north. This would cause a vacuum that would pull the hurricanes up from the ocean.
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