What Climate Scientists See In The Floodwaters


What Climate Scientists Want You to See in the Floodwaters

Like most Americans this week, we have been transfixed by the still unfolding disaster in Houston and coastal Texas, described on the airwaves as “unprecedented” and “beyond anything experienced.” 
If that wasn’t bad enough, on the other side of the globe, another climate-related calamity has been unfolding, though it has received less attention: the ongoing monsoon flooding in India, Bangladesh and Nepal that has killed more than 1,000 people and displaced millions. As in Houston, recovery there will take years.
Climate change doesn’t cause extreme events. It amplifies them.
What we have to look forward to, is more and more amplification of weather events.  Global warming is increasing the amount of moisture in the atmosphere.  And what we have to look forward too is a decreasing ability for our handling these disasters -- there will be too many of them.  In the not to distant future, there will be a Houston event, and a New Orleans event, and a Florida event, and they will be on their own because our resources will be spread too thin.  

There is a solution to all this, a carbon tax, something even some conservatives, not to mention Republicans, the IMF, and even oil companies, are in favor of, but it appears that's not happening anytime soon.  Seriously, if this doesn't happen soon, we are going to be swamped by Houston events.

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