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Category Archives: Houston Flooding
Building a Trumpian Sea Wall
Building a Trumpian Sea Wall Trump’s attacks on greenhouse gas regulations will be a major contributor to global warming for the foreseeable future. This includes stopping improvements in CAFE cleaner car standards. The EPA is halving the rate of methane … Continue reading
Trump’s West Coast Trifecta of Doom
Trump’s West Coast Trifecta of Doom Three environmental topics that I wanted to write about are now, in time and space, all connected, and all point to one villain: Trump. The three topics start with Trump’s toadying denial of climate … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 Midterm Election, Air Quality, Autos, CAFE Standards, California Housing Fires, California Smog, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Science, Coastal Flooding, Donald Trump, EPA, Equivalent Electric Car Emissions, Fire Risks, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Houston Flooding, Hurricane Irma, Paris Climate Accord, Paris Climate Agreement, Trump Administration
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Trump Has Made the Department of Defense into Climate Liars
Trump Has Made the Department of Defense into Climate Liars In a DoD report on Climate-Related Risk to DoD Infrastructure, Initial Vulnerability Assessment Survey (SLVAS) Report, drafters have removed the 23 mentions of “climate change”. This is what the report … Continue reading
Trump Asks for More Global Warming, and Other Catastrophes
Trump Asks for More Global Warming, and Other Catastrophes Trump can never really keep a secret. He eventually reveals everything. Trump tweeted for more global warming to heat up New York and D.C., where he wants more winter business for … Continue reading
Climate Change, Flooding, and West Coast Cities
This summer we saw that nature does not go gentle into that good night. The gentle global mean sea level rise predictions in the Fourth National Climate Assessment Intermediate case are 1.1 feet to 2050, but then they sharply increase … Continue reading
Trump’s Debt Blowup and Economic Disruptiveness
Trump’s Debt Blowup and Economic Disruptiveness The piecemeal plans of the Congress (er Republicans) on the next budget will lead to HUGE (Trumpwise) increases in the National Debt. They will be justified (attempted) by the many-times-disproved trickle-down economics. They have … Continue reading
Please Teach Trump What Bastille Day Celebrates
Please Teach Trump What Bastille Day Celebrates Trump, having witnessed the Bastille Day or French National Day Parade, has decided that he needs that pomp of having a July 4 Parade next year showing off our military hardware. France’s parade … Continue reading
Posted in AHCA, Climate Change, Donald Trump, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Freedoms, Health Care, Houston Flooding, Hurricane Irma, Kellyanne, Tax Laws, Trump Administration, Trump on Climate Change, Trump Taxes, Upward Mobility, Voting Rights, Wealth, White House
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Buyout, or Raise, Persistent Flood Victims
Buyout, or Raise, Persistent Flood Victims I have just read the best article on the necessity to buyout persistent flood victims, and to provide a modern flood survey across the country. It is in the Washington Post, by David Conrad … Continue reading
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Relation of Flood Heights with Paving to Ancient Heights
We take the simplest model to show the effects of paving over areas, which increase the total flood heights. A 1992-2010 survey showed that 30% of the Harris County area had been covered by development that cut off the soil … Continue reading
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Harvey Carried the Equivalent of 20 Years of US Electrical Energy Output
Harvey Carried 20 Years Equivalent of US Electrical Energy Output Storms carry potential energy in their water vapor, that was supplied as the heat of vaporization was input to evaporate the ocean water. When the vapor condenses to rain drops, … Continue reading