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To: Ben Ficklin

He forgot the sarcasm tag, though most of us don’t really need it for something that obvious.

On a more general note, Chennai is just the latest city in India to be flooded out. Mumbai regularly ends up chest-deep during the Monsoons, as do many others. It has very little to do with the amount of rain, and a great deal to do with unregulated building (both by the government and illegal squatters) and poor engineering of roads, drains, and other infrastructure.

And the best available power technology, if you’re worried about CO2 emissions (which we don’t really need to be; AGW is a scam of monumental proportions), is nuclear power. The main problem is the flat-earth Luddites who got scared by a bad ‘70s disaster movie and now won’t allow modern, clean (and very safe) nuclear generation plants to be built.


13 posted on 12/05/2015 4:13:54 AM PST by Little Pig
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To: Little Pig; Cincinatus' Wife
Silting of rivers and lakes are a function of high water, and historically, measured in geologic time, river beds shift/move around.

The other thing is that the monsoons combine with nutrient run-off of the Himalayas so that rice farming in India and western China feeds half the people on earth.

The Indian govt recognizes the problems they face with their fertility rate.

India operates one of the largest constellations earth observational satellites. Not as many as the US but as the GOP tries to shut down these satellites being operated by NASA, NOAA, and USGS, India could end up with more than the US.

India's EOS

19 posted on 12/05/2015 5:47:45 AM PST by Ben Ficklin
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