Posted on 08/29/2017 2:55:01 PM PDT by Hadean
With rising sea levels and increased rainfall, experts agree, climate change made the flooding from Hurricane Harvey far worse than it would have been even a decade ago. The Texas legislature had multiple opportunities to create a “climate adaptation plan” that could have resulted in preparations, but the bills were killed every time. The sponsor of the legislation told International Business Times that former Texas Gov. Rick Perry made sure that the climate adaptation bills would not pass.
“When I filed that legislation, then-Governor Perry’s legislative staff told me that no legislation that had climate change in it would get out of committee,” former Texas state representative Lon Burnam told IBT. “They came to our office and said to stop filing these bills.’”
“Because of the total Republican control of the legislature, it’s very easy for the governor to tell committee chairs to not let any bills mentioning climate change out of their committee,” said Burnam.
Burnam proposed his climate adaptation plan bill in 2009, 2011 and 2013. All three bills died in committee, either never coming up for a vote or making it out of one committee but, in a procedural sleight of hand, never being placed on the legislative calendar by the Republican-controlled Calendars committee. The bill would have required most major agencies in Texas to create a plan that included a “climate change vulnerability assessment” and review their programs and plan for how to complete their missions in light of changing climate conditions. That list of agencies includes the state’s Department of Housing, Department of Public Safety and Health and Human Services, all of which were caught off-guard by the scale of Harvey’s destruction.
In 2007, Burnam also proposed a “global warming task force” that would have created a report studying the “global warming challenges and opportunities facing Texas”...
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total b.s.
OMG, my head hurts from all the stupidity mentioned in just the preview. You can’t change climate one bit by studying it. The bills didn’t pass because Texans don’t want it and it is a waste of time.
This has nothing to do with “climate change”.
I might be wrong, but I count four lies in the first sentence. Did I miss any?
I blame it on those low flow toilets they made us buy.
All that water we saved went to Houston.
Makes as much sense as the baloney the Democrats are coming up with.
[With rising sea levels and increased rainfall, experts agree, climate change made the flooding from Hurricane Harvey far worse than it would have been even a decade ago.]
Complete bullsh**
Dance on their graves, you Warmunists! DANCE ON ALL THEIR GRAVES!!!
Beyond stupid.
Journalusts are journalists PRECISELY because they would or have failed freshman physics.
IIUC, parts of the Houston area are sinking a couple of inches a year. Natural subsidence.
It’s a blessing of God that Texas oil men rescued our nation’s security and it’s economy by ramping up the shale drilling boom during Obama’s reign of error, fighting him all the way. The major pipeline to the east coast is now out, and the states depending on it for fuel this winter better pray that it can be repaired quickly.
these people are a cult.
As if this country and others have never had cat 4 hurricanes hit before Harvey.
This is the reality of living on earth. We have hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, mudslides, tsunamis etc.
Police dead, thousands misplaced along with dead civilians and the socialists refuse to give up their disgusting communist ways by inciting climate change.
Maggots.
If every republican just gave 80% of their income to Al Gore last year none of this would ever have happened.
Gee, I wonder about the Galveston storm of 1900? Bet that had to do with climate change and lack of concern of something like that by lawmakers back then, eh?
The first four words are a lie...
Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud
Sea levels began to rise 18k years ago at the end of the last glacial period. They have risen about 135 meters since then which is an average of 7.5 millimeters per year. That is an average of 750 mm per century (29.5 inches) which is far more than the average over the last century.
From 1880 to 2000 sea level rose about 20 cm or just under 8 inches. Far less than the nearly 30 inches per century average over the last 18,000 years.
I get so tired of the crazy statist mindset, they will exploit anything to try to advance their cause.
CGato
No amount of money can either cure, or satisfy, this level of stupid.
“This has nothing to do with “climate change”.”
Right! What this really has “to do with” is pi$$ing away Texans hard-earned tax dollars, giving jobs to worthless “climate scientists,” and lining the pockets of businesses set up to “do climate research,” in that order. If I had a dollar for every “government commission” in this country, I’d be rich.
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