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The heart of Climate Denial gets Walloped

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calamity said:
Southern Texas has seen nearly 600% more rainfall than it typically does in early May



Oh, I know. This is just God's wrath over abortions and gheys, not climate change.
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Dear God how cherry picked do you get?

If you select weekly events then any year will have such a statistic.

The Upper Texas Coast and the Gulf Coast of western Louisiana has received "tremendous rainfall" in the past week, "300-600% of normal rainfall in that time frame,"
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So some of Texas had a wet week.
 
Tim the plumber said:

Dear God how cherry picked do you get?

If you select weekly events then any year will have such a statistic.



So some of Texas had a wet week.
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6x wetter than normal
 
There is a difference between weather and climate. Few deny that either is subject to change or variation.
 
calamity said:
6x wetter than normal
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We have had a lot of rain, but it happens fairly often.
Only by limiting the scope of the time frame to May can it be said to be unusual.
Similar rain events have occurred in April, July, August, September, ect
 
longview said:
We have had a lot of rain, but it happens fairly often.
Only by limiting the scope of the time frame to May can it be said to be unusual.
Similar rain events have occurred in April, July, August, September, ect
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Not even May, 1 week in May.
 
Tim the plumber said:
Not even May, 1 week in May.
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That is kind of how it goes, Seattle gets about the same amount of rain as Houston, but over a lot more days.
Houston's rain tends to be in burst mode, but this is nothing new.
 
Steve Case said:
Maybe you can find a nice photograph of a dead polar bear too.
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LOL...

The damaged paint on the building... Looks like a poor paint job that flaked off...
 
longview said:
We have had a lot of rain, but it happens fairly often.
Only by limiting the scope of the time frame to May can it be said to be unusual.
Similar rain events have occurred in April, July, August, September, ect
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The last number I saw was 7%. With current warming the atmosphere can hold 7% more water. Yes, Houston has it's share of rain events, but 7% can be the difference between a neighborhood flooding or not. Once that water starts entering homes, and the ensuing reconstruction of the lower walls, baseboards and floors; and the billions in damages start adding up quickly. Ka-Ching!
 
Media_Truth said:
The last number I saw was 7%. With current warming the atmosphere can hold 7% more water. Yes, Houston has it's share of rain events, but 7% can be the difference between a neighborhood flooding or not. Once that water starts entering homes, and the ensuing reconstruction of the lower walls, baseboards and floors; and the billions in damages start adding up quickly. Ka-Ching!
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I think most of Houston's flooding issues arise from a lack of zoning laws, and greedy developers, building in places they should not.
West of Houston, they have two very large flood control areas, which are dry most of the time.
HCFCD - Addicks and Barker Reservoirs
Developers built homes and businesses below the grade of the top of the levy, I.E. if the Reservoirs
fill up, you will get flooded.
I remember some guy they were interviewing after Harvey, saying he thought the levy he crossed on the way home
was protecting him from flooding!!! I wonder if the builder told him "This home is behind a 30 foot levy!" like it was a good thing?
In the last few decades they seem to be building retention ponds to offset the concrete covering the ground a bit,
but we cannot bypass the basic concept that Houston get a lot of rain normally, and extra every few years.
The politicians keep repeating "turn around, don't drown!" but people still do not understand what a 2 inch per hour rain can do.
 
longview said:
I think most of Houston's flooding issues arise from a lack of zoning laws, and greedy developers, building in places they should not.
West of Houston, they have two very large flood control areas, which are dry most of the time.
HCFCD - Addicks and Barker Reservoirs
Developers built homes and businesses below the grade of the top of the levy, I.E. if the Reservoirs
fill up, you will get flooded.
I remember some guy they were interviewing after Harvey, saying he thought the levy he crossed on the way home
was protecting him from flooding!!! I wonder if the builder told him "This home is behind a 30 foot levy!" like it was a good thing?
In the last few decades they seem to be building retention ponds to offset the concrete covering the ground a bit,
but we cannot bypass the basic concept that Houston get a lot of rain normally, and extra every few years.
The politicians keep repeating "turn around, don't drown!" but people still do not understand what a 2 inch per hour rain can do.
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The indoctrinated don't understand things like that, or the restrictions of natural waterways we develop.
 
Lord of Planar said:
My God.

Climate is cyclical. Show me that it's the worse ever.
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When you speak to a doomsayer, just remember that a light rain to them means a flood not seen since Noah's time, a gust of wind is a category 5 hurricane, and a single sick polar bear means theyre becoming extinct.
 
PoS said:
When you speak to a doomsayer, just remember that a light rain to them means a flood not seen since Noah's time, a gust of wind is a category 5 hurricane, and a single sick polar bear means theyre becoming extinct.
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I most certainly seems that way.
 
longview said:
I think most of Houston's flooding issues arise from a lack of zoning laws, and greedy developers, building in places they should not.
West of Houston, they have two very large flood control areas, which are dry most of the time.
HCFCD - Addicks and Barker Reservoirs
Developers built homes and businesses below the grade of the top of the levy, I.E. if the Reservoirs
fill up, you will get flooded.
I remember some guy they were interviewing after Harvey, saying he thought the levy he crossed on the way home
was protecting him from flooding!!! I wonder if the builder told him "This home is behind a 30 foot levy!" like it was a good thing?
In the last few decades they seem to be building retention ponds to offset the concrete covering the ground a bit,
but we cannot bypass the basic concept that Houston get a lot of rain normally, and extra every few years.
The politicians keep repeating "turn around, don't drown!" but people still do not understand what a 2 inch per hour rain can do.
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I won't disagree with this. Here in Colorado, they do a lot of planning for mountain stream floods. In this case, the intervention is probably an improvement over nature. In other words, there would be more flooding without the intervention.

It is still fact that warmer air holds more moisture, and can prolong or exacerbate storms and floods.
 
Media_Truth said:
I won't disagree with this. Here in Colorado, they do a lot of planning for mountain stream floods. In this case, the intervention is probably an improvement over nature. In other words, there would be more flooding without the intervention.

It is still fact that warmer air holds more moisture, and can prolong or exacerbate storms and floods.
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Houston/Harris County do an amazing job of flood control, but rapid growth present a challenge.
One area that flooded this past week, did not flood in Harvey, the residence seem convinced that
several misplaced k-rails in front of a construction site diverted the street drainage into their neighborhood.
Our streets are a large part of our flood control, providing large channels to flow the water,
when construction blocks that flow, the water has to go somewhere else.
 
I'm still confused. I though global warming was causing droughts?Does global warming cause more rain? Or less rain?
 
KLATTU said:
I'm still confused. I though global warming was causing droughts?Does global warming cause more rain? Or less rain?
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Not long ago, Hayhoe and others shrieked that Texas was in PERMANENT drought situation:

The Texas A&M Permanent Drought

Texas A&M Climatologist Says Drought Could Last Until 2020

Weather porn about Texas, a lesson for Earth Day 2019

Dessler Permanent Texas Drought Continues

It is funny when warmists forget past powerful rains that visited Texas:

Tropical Storm Allison 2001

The storm dropped heavy rainfall along its path, peaking at over 40 inches (1,000 mm) in Texas.
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Tropical Storm Claudette (1979)

The highest one-day total was reported near Alvin, Texas where 42 inches (1,100 mm) of rain fell. This remained as the highest twenty-four-hour rainfall record for any location in the United States until April 14-15, 2018 when 49.69 inches (1,262 mm) of rain fell in 24 hours in Waipā Garden, Kauai, Hawaii
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Then we have this bit of chronic flood history for the nations 4th largest city:

Houston's History of Floods

Founded in 1836 where the Buffalo Bayou met White Oak Bayou, Houston has faced many floods. Not long after being established, the settlement flooded. Initially swamp land, people began to try and drain the area. Done with no planning, draining the land did not account for flooding rains. Flooding rains would come again and again over the next 180+ years.
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It is YOU who get carried away with your hysteria over it.

By the way the phrase Climate Denial is a dishonest narrative warmists use over and over, even when corrected on it, they continue to use it. No one disputes that Climate Changes, that is a fact YOU need to adjust for and stop the lie over it.
 
KLATTU said:
I'm still confused. I though global warming was causing droughts?Does global warming cause more rain? Or less rain?
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In the’70s we were told Global Cooling would cause similar catastrophes.
Of course our good friends on the left will deny that Global Cooling ever
existed as an issue.
 
KLATTU said:
I'm still confused. I though global warming was causing droughts?Does global warming cause more rain? Or less rain?
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It's the flavor of the disaster.

If it's flooding, it's climate change.

If its drought, it's climate change.


And these boys who cry wolf, wonder why we laugh at them...
 
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