Is Increased Flooding in Houston an Effect of Climate Change?

Stop trying to save the earth.
Damage is done and quite frankly,
If im a dog with 8 billion fleas id want to be put out of my misery.

 

Yes and all four RCP's show an increase in sea level that will have dramatic consequences for many parts of the world. So what are you asking me? What's your point?

Sandy was more intense because of global warming. Yes, the data supports that because SST have risen off the east coast in correlation with the temp increase and higher SST's are directly tied to increased intensity of cyclones.

In addition, global warming predicts the jet stream lowering further down and earlier than normal - which allows for a hurricane and a nor'eastern merger more likely which is what happened. I won't say that is tied to global warming as these storms are so rare that you can't scientifically make that link.

But you do it to SST and intensity.

 

Good article:

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/hou...hp?t=998f746322438d9cbb&cmpid=twitter-premium

The fact is when the developers contribute to the County Judges who set the detention requirements, you are going to get less than cautious regulations. It's been that way for 50 years, back when I was a Land Planner in Fort Bend County in the 80's I saw it first hand.

The point is, the small government, no regulation types never look at the big picture over time, in pretty much everything.

 

You see this as a small government issue, I see it as a money in politics issue.

 

The answer is El Nino.

 

The money buys the politicians who use the "less big government regulation" tact to subvert the public interest that profits the money.

It's the same issue. Flooding due to bad planning for bigger profits to developers, global warming due to the suppression of alternatives by Big Carbon, expensive pharmaceuticals maintained by lobbied patent law, the ACA instead of single payer because of Big insurance.

Greed and profit subverting good science and common sense.