Posted on 09/15/2018 9:58:31 PM PDT by mdittmar
North Carolina could find itself more vulnerable to damage from storms like Hurricane Florence due to a state law passed six years ago that banned using recent climate science to plan for the consequences of rising sea levels.
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I just want the “climate scientists” to know that I just finished shoveling 16 inches of “partly cloudy” from my driveway.
There’s both. The subsidence is up to three times higher than the absolute sea level rise. It’s theoretically easy to measure absolute sea level, you just bounce a radar beam from a satellite off the water. The problem is that the level varies a whole lot compared to the rise (a few mm). It’s just as problematic to get a worldwide average because the Pacific sloshes side to side by a few meters at each end thanks to El NIno.
That’s why the correct way to cost storms is by normalizing for growth in the economy and/or insured value. The most expensive storm ever, by 2x, is the Miami hurricane of 1928.
Not where I live, east of Charlotte. Miserably hot and dry. We may have lost a lilac that's been healthy for 13 years; won't know until this rain stops and we see if it perks up in the cooler temperatures.
The Journal ran an editorial discussing the various ways the taxpayers either directly - through disaster relief - or indirectly - through insurance regulation - subsidize high-risk coastal development. If individuals had to pay the actual costs, a lot more people would live inland.
Caught a weather report here in DC a couple of days ago. The weatherman said it only rained twice this summer: once for 45 days and then again for 30 days. That's about right.
Funny, Miami hasn’t been threatened, nor has any part of Florida. The southern states seem to be above sea level.
VIDEO: 3mins27secs: 14 Sept: Fox News: Tucker Carlson: Meteorologist: Climate change not causing more hurricanes
Former NASA scientist Dr. Roy Spencer says that the number of major hurricanes making landfall in the U.S. has actually fallen since the 1930s.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5835087583001/?#sp=show-clips
They are not scientists.
This is a hit piece.
Hurricanes will not be more damaging.
What’s going to happen will happen and people need to not stupidly build in areas that are prone to flooding.
You can’t control the weather to make hurricanes less damaging, but you can control where people build.
CompleteBullShit article directed to people
stupid enough to vote for 0bama...
And we wonder about the antiTrumpers...there one in the same...
What a bunch of crap!!!
yes Clooney’s voice was that of a friend from VA. Mr. Tyminski.
Sorry to be a “mind reader” but it all fit your description from my mind about the upper reaches of the Potomac- ground right familiar to me and my kinfolk... cause the joke was intended by the movie script writer to “rename” Foggy to Soggy and include the late Charles Durning as “Pappy....” and the “Biscuit Hour” to mimic “Martha White” Flour sponsor of the Grand Ole Opry (current music act contracted as endorsee, required at every show to sing The Martha White Hot Rize Flour song— is Rhonda Vincent & the Rage).
And you have some recouping— as we have been hosed by Florence— but maybe more moisture coming your way.
Be safe and thanks for the laugh— senient algae (makes me think of that Steven King short about the green crap that takes over a dude’s cabin and farm, dude played by Stephen King himself).
Well you have Florence now to help that out, Charlotte got hosed as have read in the news.
You are seriously right on my wave length.
Right now, I'm thinking of poor verdant Jordy a LOT. :D
Did you notice that O Brother was based on Homer's The Odyssey?
The Coen brothers rock.
Yes, we had 7-10”, according to my husband. My subdivision was entirely surrounded by floods.
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