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Floods suggest national security threat from climate change

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Floods suggest national security threat from climate change

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) — The Missouri River floodwater surging on to the air base housing the U.S. military’s Strategic Command overwhelmed round-the-clock sandbagging by airmen and others. They had to scramble to save sensitive equipment, munitions and dozens of aircraft.

Days into the flooding, muddy water was still lapping at almost 80 flooded buildings at Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base, some inundated by up to 7 feet (2.1 meters) of water. Piles of waterlogged corn cobs, husks and stalks lay heaped everywhere that the water had receded, swept onto the base from surrounding fields.
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Fixing the progression of climate change may be difficult but the result of doing nothing is apparent in this article.
 
JacksinPA said:
Floods suggest national security threat from climate change

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) — The Missouri River floodwater surging on to the air base housing the U.S. military’s Strategic Command overwhelmed round-the-clock sandbagging by airmen and others. They had to scramble to save sensitive equipment, munitions and dozens of aircraft.

Days into the flooding, muddy water was still lapping at almost 80 flooded buildings at Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base, some inundated by up to 7 feet (2.1 meters) of water. Piles of waterlogged corn cobs, husks and stalks lay heaped everywhere that the water had receded, swept onto the base from surrounding fields.
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Fixing the progression of climate change may be difficult but the result of doing nothing is apparent in this article.
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Ice jam, snowmelt, and intense rainfall are all causes of floods which have occurred historically on the Missouri. ... Floods along the Missouri River in Nebraska have occurred frequently; however, major floods have occurred in 1881, 1943, 1952,1967,1978, and 1993. The flood of record occurred in April, 1952.
 
Historic Floods on the Missouri River

https://semspub.epa.gov/work/07/30022840.pdf


The flood of April, 1952, still stands as the flood-of-record for the Missouri at Omaha. On April 16, the river's discharge was 396,000 cubic feetlsecond (177,724,800 gallons per minute) with a record stage of 40.2 feet (flood stage at Omaha is 29 feet). The first flood warnings were issued on April 7 from Niobrara to Rulo, a sign of the severity of the impending flood. By the 13th, all 5,557 residents of South Sioux City were urged to evacuate by the mayor as dikes protecting the City had failed days earlier and a third of the City was flooded to a depth of eight feet. Evacuation orders were commonplace: all 622 residents of Dakota City, 30,000 in Council Bluffs, 40,000 from Carter Lake and East Omaha, and numerous other places up and down the river. 75 homes were flooded in Niobrara; Homer and La Platte were virtually abandoned; Blair set a record crest of 23.15 feet (flood stage is 18.0 feet); the flow reached 400,000 cfs at Plattsmouth; 20 families were rescued in Bellevue; the stage of 27.66 feet and record discharge of 414,000 cfs meant that the flood exceeded the 500-year level at Nebraska City; and families were evacuated in Rulo. President Truman personally visited the scene of the flooding in Omaha and officially declared it a disaster area. Although the crest passed Omaha without causing a floodwall breach, other places were not as fortunate. South Sioux City damage estimates alone were $2.5 million, and $1 1.9 million was the Corps of Engineers' preliminary estimate for the entire flood. It is doubtful, however, that this estimate takes into consideration all aspects of flood damage such as infrastructure, agriculture, business interruption, and other direct losses. 180,000 agricultural acres were inundated, and of the 1,400 houses inundated in the flood, 681 were farmsteads. In urban areas, 2,100 homes were evacuated, totaling 13,000 displaced people (not including Omaha). 1.4 million manhours were worked to fight the flood.
 
JacksinPA said:
Floods suggest national security threat from climate change

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) — The Missouri River floodwater surging on to the air base housing the U.S. military’s Strategic Command overwhelmed round-the-clock sandbagging by airmen and others. They had to scramble to save sensitive equipment, munitions and dozens of aircraft.

Days into the flooding, muddy water was still lapping at almost 80 flooded buildings at Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base, some inundated by up to 7 feet (2.1 meters) of water. Piles of waterlogged corn cobs, husks and stalks lay heaped everywhere that the water had receded, swept onto the base from surrounding fields.
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Fixing the progression of climate change may be difficult but the result of doing nothing is apparent in this article.
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Maybe just waiting until it changes back to a drier climate? Floods and droughts have happened for eons. Probably will continue to do so.
 
Bullseye said:
Maybe just waiting until it changes back to a drier climate? Floods and droughts have happened for eons. Probably will continue to do so.
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The change in the weather patterns is being driven by increasing CO2 levels causing global warming not only of the atmosphere but of the oceans as well. That means more moisture in the air & higher temperatures mean more energy. This is not a cycle that will self correct.
 
JacksinPA said:
Floods suggest national security threat from climate change

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) — The Missouri River floodwater surging on to the air base housing the U.S. military’s Strategic Command overwhelmed round-the-clock sandbagging by airmen and others. They had to scramble to save sensitive equipment, munitions and dozens of aircraft.

Days into the flooding, muddy water was still lapping at almost 80 flooded buildings at Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base, some inundated by up to 7 feet (2.1 meters) of water. Piles of waterlogged corn cobs, husks and stalks lay heaped everywhere that the water had receded, swept onto the base from surrounding fields.
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Fixing the progression of climate change may be difficult but the result of doing nothing is apparent in this article.
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We've all been warned by the best climate scientists in the entire world, that we're inside a closing window and once that window closes there's no reversing it, no going back. We're all so screwed.
 
JacksinPA said:
The change in the weather patterns is being driven by increasing CO2 levels causing global warming not only of the atmosphere but of the oceans as well. That means more moisture in the air & higher temperatures mean more energy. This is not a cycle that will self correct.
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I know the mantras. You guys have been chanting for so long it's hard to forget them.
 
Bullseye said:
Maybe just waiting until it changes back to a drier climate? Floods and droughts have happened for eons. Probably will continue to do so.
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Yes, there have been self-correcting weather cycles in the past but they were not being driven by the burning of fossil fuels that generates CO2. We live in an exceptional world that, unfortunately, may be heading for a tipping point that will bring more & greater climate disasters.
 
Common Sense 1 said:
Ice jam, snowmelt, and intense rainfall are all causes of floods which have occurred historically on the Missouri. ... Floods along the Missouri River in Nebraska have occurred frequently; however, major floods have occurred in 1881, 1943, 1952,1967,1978, and 1993. The flood of record occurred in April, 1952.
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Yeah, well, as long as it happened before or someone else did it first then it's all good, right? I mean that's just common sense. :2rofll:
 
JacksinPA said:
Floods suggest national security threat from climate change

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) — The Missouri River floodwater surging on to the air base housing the U.S. military’s Strategic Command overwhelmed round-the-clock sandbagging by airmen and others. They had to scramble to save sensitive equipment, munitions and dozens of aircraft.

Days into the flooding, muddy water was still lapping at almost 80 flooded buildings at Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base, some inundated by up to 7 feet (2.1 meters) of water. Piles of waterlogged corn cobs, husks and stalks lay heaped everywhere that the water had receded, swept onto the base from surrounding fields.
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Fixing the progression of climate change may be difficult but the result of doing nothing is apparent in this article.
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Is this the first time flooding has ever happened there?
 
Common Sense 1 said:
Ice jam, snowmelt, and intense rainfall are all causes of floods which have occurred historically on the Missouri. ... Floods along the Missouri River in Nebraska have occurred frequently; however, major floods have occurred in 1881, 1943, 1952,1967,1978, and 1993. The flood of record occurred in April, 1952.
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Commen Sense, that can't be true. Global Warming, sorry, Climate Change, has only been a topic recently.

It is not possible they have ever had floods before now.
 
Risky Thicket said:
Yeah, well, as long as it happened before or someone else did it first then it's all good, right? I mean that's just common sense. :2rofll:
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The OP tries to say the flood is a result of climate change. That would mean floods have never happened before.

If floods have happened before, how can anybody be certain of what caused them this time as opposed to every other time through history?
 
Mason66 said:
The OP tries to say the flood is a result of climate change. That would mean floods have never happened before.

If floods have happened before, how can anybody be certain of what caused them this time as opposed to every other time through history?
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Climate scientists have the education, the training and the experience to know. I trust them
 
Yup, never had floods before. Hurricanes or tornadoes either.
 
JacksinPA said:
Yes, there have been self-correcting weather cycles in the past but they were not being driven by the burning of fossil fuels that generates CO2. We live in an exceptional world that, unfortunately, may be heading for a tipping point that will bring more & greater climate disasters.
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I just opened up all my windows since I get free gas from our 2 gas wells. I don't do it for any particular reason except that it's free and I enjoy burning needless gas just because I can.
 
JacksinPA said:
The change in the weather patterns is being driven by increasing CO2 levels causing global warming not only of the atmosphere but of the oceans as well. That means more moisture in the air & higher temperatures mean more energy. This is not a cycle that will self correct.
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Jack, you're arguing with people who literally believe that their two hours of watching conspiracy videos on youtube makes them more of an expert on climatology than the tens of thousands of scientists who have devoted their life to the subject.

You're not going to win that argument.
 
veritas1 said:
Yup, never had floods before. Hurricanes or tornadoes either.
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Dang. That is a response I would expect from a grade 3 student learning the most basic concepts of science.
 
Mason66 said:
The OP tries to say the flood is a result of climate change. That would mean floods have never happened before.
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Jesus Christ, no it doesn't. Honestly, this is something I would expect the typical Canadian elementary school student to know.

You seriously think the tens of thousands of scientists who have devoted their lives to the subject wouldn't be able to figure that out if it were true? But you can? WTF.
 
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JacksinPA said:
Floods suggest national security threat from climate change

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) — The Missouri River floodwater surging on to the air base housing the U.S. military’s Strategic Command overwhelmed round-the-clock sandbagging by airmen and others. They had to scramble to save sensitive equipment, munitions and dozens of aircraft.

Days into the flooding, muddy water was still lapping at almost 80 flooded buildings at Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base, some inundated by up to 7 feet (2.1 meters) of water. Piles of waterlogged corn cobs, husks and stalks lay heaped everywhere that the water had receded, swept onto the base from surrounding fields.
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Fixing the progression of climate change may be difficult but the result of doing nothing is apparent in this article.
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Or NOT. More SNOWFALL (which were weren't going to have anymore...remember? I know, it's hard to keep all the Climatistas LIES and FAIELD PREDICTIONS STRAIGHT ) is the cause, more than anything else.


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