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Global Warming, er Climate Change is a National Security Threat


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Extremely good commentary from today^^


Also, "Paris, tx" is a great movie.


I'll talk more about the article later. Feel free to go crazy now tho.


From the article:


"Texas is getting pummeled by a double-whammy: extreme precipitation and drought, depending on the Pacific Ocean’s natural cycles that can either produce hot and dry (La Niña) or wet and cool (El Niño) conditions. Climate change intensifies the weather events they spawn.


Last year, for example, more than 35 trillion gallons of water fell on Texas in May, enough to flood the state’s entire 268,820 square miles with 8 inches of water. A study published last October in the journal Geophysical Research Letters concluded that “anthropogenic [human-caused] global warming contributed to the physical processes that caused the persistent precipitation in May 2015.”


Back in 2011, meanwhile, Texas suffered the costliest drought in its history. Texas A&M University calculated that farmers and ranchers lost $7.82 billion. The likely culprit? Climate change. A July 2012 study in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society compared the dry La Niña year of 2008 with La Niña years in the 1960s and determined that climate change has made extreme hot and dry conditions in Texas in La Niña years 20 times more likely today than 50 years ago."


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This is one of my favorite things about climate change. Texas is home to a huge amount of climate science deniers. And guess what? They are gonna get their teeth kicked in. Gotta love poetic justice. Unfortunately it will of course be the taxpayers that eventually bail them out and we'll be paying 100s of dollars to the dollar in what it would have cost to prevent it.
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Global Warming, er Climate Change is a National Security Threat - by oface5446 - 06-10-2016, 06:01 PM



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