re: Houston Fears Climate Change Will Cause Catastrophic Flooding

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Tropical Storm Allison was a tropical storm that devastated southeast Texas in June of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season

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

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Guess what-Houston dried out....and any area will flood if they get this much rain...wonder who funded that trash study??

That is idiocy

They probably do believe it

Build. A. Wall.

this thread is amazing.

normally the republican response to "climate change" is that the earth and nature are too big and powerful to be influenced by humans, yet here we have page after page saying people are the cause for the increase in floods around Houston.

we burn down forests. we poison rivers and oceans. we blow up mountains. we flood cities.

we are changing the natural world around us, and clearly a lot of you actually understand that, even if you wont admit it.

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Thibodaux >>>>>> Houston

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To my knowledge Nicholls has never beaten a Houston area team in football

"The truth is that most of the flooding in Houston is manmade,” said Ed Browne, another member, pointing out that many people who get flooded, Bixler included, are not in the 100-year floodplain – an area calculated to have a 1% annual chance of flooding."

Good riddance

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Humans are so different from animals intellectually and behaviorally, that it's difficult to believe there's any kinship with lower animals.

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WE DID NOT EVOLVE FROM LOWER ANIMALS.

we evolved from a more primitive human-like species, starting around 8 million years ago.

we did not evolve from apes, though we are both primates and 96 percent of our DNA is identical. "The number of genetic differences between humans and chimps is ten times smaller than that between mice and rats."

you could lay the bones and fossils out if you wanted and literally watch the changes take place. this is simply fact, and it will remain a fact even if you choose to ignore it.

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The next time a dog teaches a class in differential calculus

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how many humans in the state of Louisiana can even do that?

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or a rat cooks my breakfast

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checkmate. there was a documentary on this a few years ago

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They look at 100 year flood plains to see where they should and shouldn't build. But Climate change has messed all of that up.

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No, it didn't.

What messed that up was paving over the prarie and diverting the water that used to soak in out there into the bayous, which all flow into the city from the outlying areas. THAT put areas that were outside of the bayou floodplains into the bayou floodplains. It has nothing to do with global warming. It's fluid dynamics.

The fields we used to go mudding in when I was a teenager - because they were always WET - are now filled with neighborhoods. And there are neighborhoods and strip malls for a dozen miles beyond that now. All that displaced water goes into the bayous and all the bayous go INTO town. 1 + 1 = 2, guys. This isn't hard. The 1960s flood maps were drawn for the amount of water the bayous had to handle back THEN. It's not raining more now, the ocean isn't higher, it's just that more water, that used to soak into the rice fields, now goes into the bayous. This calculus doesn't require mysterious global warming. Just development in rice paddy land.

If you have never lived in Houston, and therefore don't understand how its bayou system works, don't comment in this thread. You don't know what you are talking about and are just showing your arse.