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Posted by: Aidenag 2 years, 1 month agoA top climate scientist has warned that Texas faces a dual threat from floods and drought if global warming is left unchecked. James Hansen, in Houston to speak before the Progressive Forum on Wednesday night, said predictions made two decades ago about the effects of a warming world are now beginning to come true.
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dunkirk
Oct. 30, 2007, 10:15 a.m.There is a connection only in a statistical sense," he said. "You can't attribute individual events to global warming, but you can look at the statistics. We expect more droughts and fires with global warming.
"And another thing, physics tells us that storms which are driven by latent heat will tend to get stronger, will tend to have more extreme events. Storms driven by latent heat include thunderstorms, tornadoes and tropical storms."
The data is there and its assembled by climate experts. Yet people still disbelieve. Its like the 40's when the cigarette companies said smoking wasn't detrimental and had studies done to back it up.
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Crossbow
Oct. 30, 2007, 10:19 a.m.Oh, give me a break! Global Warming is the biggest hoax since Charles Darwin wrote his Origin of Species.
Everyone with any intelligence knows that Texas is _always_ under a threat of drought or flooding. You just have to turn on The Weather Channel to find that out.
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KMFDM
Oct. 30, 2007, 11:50 a.m.Translation:
I don't believe I believe in origins of species, because in doing so I have to doubt my religion and god creating me.
I don't believe in Global Warming because only my God is allowed to destory life on earth and not me.
Are you to tell me that a Sumerian copy of creation (a.k.a. Genesis out of the "holy" bible.)that states that the Earth was made before the stars and sun is not a hoax?
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rightfromwrong
Oct. 30, 2007, 10:24 a.m.People are apathetic...have their heads in the sand. My boss told me there are more polar bears now than at any time. He failed to factor in that they are more identifiable because there is so much less ice where they were virtually invisible.
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not2needy
Oct. 30, 2007, 10:25 a.m.As much as this global situation scares the heck out of me, maybe there is some poetic justice in it hitting Tx so hard, if you get my drift!
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Charlson
Oct. 30, 2007, 10:35 a.m.Crossbow, thankfully there are many more global warming debunkers like you who have finally comprehended the overwhelming scientific evidence and have changed their minds. That's evolution of the thinking process. You're still at the ameba stage. Wriggle your way to the truth and you'll grow a bigger brain.
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texangelwings
Oct. 30, 2007, 11:01 a.m.Interesting article, thanks Mark! I hope that the experts are wrong!
Although, in the last century, Texas suffered through a dust bowl in the panhandle. And in Fort Worth, Texas, the newspapers have pictures of buildings downtown with boats passing by near the roofs tops of some buildings. Many cities in Texas have put in cement drain systems to try to prevent flooding! Flash flood are common in Irving, near Dallas.
There was a prediction that Texas would run out of water and that was ten years ago. We still have water!
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nostalgia
Oct. 30, 2007, 11:05 a.m."dual threat from floods and drought"
This guy set himself up so he can't be wrong!
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jimdoze
Oct. 30, 2007, 11:16 a.m.Alas... Poor Texas... We'll miss you.
pssssst... GW was the rest of the lower 47's way of gettin' back at ya for all the BS about bigger being better.
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agentX
Oct. 30, 2007, 11:32 a.m.Y'know, usually it is flood or the drought. Not BOTH at the same time.
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1-2-Oscar
Oct. 30, 2007, 11:33 a.m."Climate expert says drought, flooding threaten Texas"
Didn't need no "climate expert" to tell that--Texas farmers been aware of that fer nigh two centuries, en Ah reckon the Injuns knowed it afore that.
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tryingtofindmyway
Oct. 30, 2007, noonIn other news...global warming is considered a prime factor in increasing middle aged male baldness. Also in middle aged male hair growth.
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simonsez
Oct. 30, 2007, 12:22 p.m.My post above landed in the wrong place, so I am posting this link again. I hope you will read this article, because this approach will penalize us without having any impact on other nations of the world.
This is truly a scheme to charge us for the air we breathe!!!! A brilliant move by the powers that be, I might add.
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simonsez
Oct. 30, 2007, 12:29 p.m.Consumers will bear the burden
For consumers, one thing appears certain. They will pay higher prices.
"Regardless of how the allowances were distributed, most of the cost of meeting a cap on CO2 emissions would be borne by consumers, who would face persistently higher prices for products such as electricity and gasoline," the CBO wrote in a report earlier this year. Read the CBO report.
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simonsez
Oct. 30, 2007, 12:30 p.m.Handing out allowances "is the same as handing out cash subsidies," said William Moomaw, director of Tufts University's Fletcher School Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, told the subcommittee in a hearing last week.
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simonsez
Oct. 30, 2007, 12:54 p.m.Here's how it works:
I'm CEO of a power company with 20 inefficient coal fired power plants that were built in the 50's and 60's. They are costly to operate, dirty and labor intensive. Government regulations won't allow me to make minor modifications and improvements that would improve performance.
Do I continue to operate them at the high cost or do I take a large hit to my balance sheet and shut them down? If I lose these assets on my balance sheet, my borrowing costs go up.
Along comes carbon credits ... BINGO! I have a brand new asset to sell. I can shut it down and sell the credits instead; But now I have less power to sell, so I have to get more for the power I have left.
The company that buys my credits gets to create the CO2 I would have created, but of course they have to get more for their product because "hey, I have to buy carbon credits which adds to my cost!"
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Been-there
Oct. 30, 2007, 2:13 p.m.It is true that in the late 1970s there were three years in succession of colder winters. But, starting in the 1980s a warming trend started taking over. There will be an on-going gradual warming until the ice has all melted, at which time the warming will increase more rapidly. In the northern latitudes the thawing of the permafrost and seas are expected to release large quantities of methane, which is a much more significant source of greenhouse warming that carbon dioxide. I believe that it would be necessary to reduce the release of carbon dioxide by 90 percent today to prevent a worldwide disaster within 50 years. And that is not likely to happen. These greenhouse gases remain in the atmosphere for up to 100 years, and more is being released all the time.
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hdthehn
Oct. 30, 2007, 2:23 p.m.Global warming may be a hoax and the same goes for Christianity and every other religion on Earth but that doesn't stop anyone from believing in their chosen superstitions.
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AmericanIdiot
Oct. 30, 2007, 7:28 p.m.Texas should fill in the Galveston shipping canal, and allow the swamps to re-form. Micro-climate change is the only feasible short-term solution to global climate change. In arid regions, swamps are vital.
They raise the water table, increase atmospheric humidity, reduce transpiration, provide forage for cattle even in drought, serve as wlidlife preserves, etc., etc.
Swamps have been nearly eliminated from the continental U.S. Malaria transmitted by mosquitoes is a valid concern, but limited DDT spraying is very effective, and not terribly dangerous.
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wpctx
Oct. 30, 2007, 7:57 p.m.Oh no. We're used to getting droughts & floods in Texas (Stevie Ray Vaughn even wrote a song called TX flood because they were so common).
But this is different, now we're going to get droughts and floods in Texas. You know I also hear that across the northern states they expect leaves to change color and fall off the trees, and some states this has already happened. And also in these northern states some of the ponds and lakes will actually freeze and get ice on them. And tonight the sun will set, it already is here, and tomorrow the sun will rise. Now floods and drought in Texas as opposed to the floods and drought in Texas we used to get. It's armageddon, its the 2nd coming, we're all doomed, doomed I say.
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meli33
Oct. 30, 2007, 8:39 p.m.you people sound so crazy!!! I live in GA and we dont have a winter anymore. We used to have some snow atleast once in the winter, but we havent had any in two years and the summers are so hot!!!!! its very hard to breath and dont mention the $500 light bills just to keep cool, it didnt use to be like this, the bible said when the world is destroyed again it will be from fire, so u figure it out????
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vettenut
Oct. 30, 2007, 9:20 p.m.I've been reading all the posts on this thread.
Some were entertaining.
Some were downright vicious.
Some were just parroting of talking points.
Some were made from ignorance.
And some were actually "on topic."
But I haven't read the obligatory rant by those poster children of the left fringe, and of the "I Just LOVE To Hate Dub-Yah More Than You Do" crowd.
So, I have decided to post it for them:
It's all Bush's fault!
and Dick Cheney's really running the country,
and Karl Rove didn't really resign--he just went through the motions to fool all of us (Dub-Yah still calls him every morning before breakfast.),
and 9-11 was an inside job,
and Al Gore deserved the Nobel prize to compensate for the stolen election of 2000,
and ______
and ______
and ______
And Bush sucks!!!!
Did that cover everything???
ROTFL&SMB
OOps, I forgot to mention that Bush had the CIA make Katrina change course and hit N.O.
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ABANOCLA
Oct. 31, 2007, 2:23 a.m.I am going to Vegas on the 11th thru the 16th, for my anniversary, keep the lights on til past then.
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