Houston: We have a Climate Change problem.

[Lazaran]

The recent relentless battering Houston has received is pretty shocking.



Related:

Haven’t heard from RobDownSouth for a while.

 

[Mac7597]

Yes. It was the craziest storm I’ve ever seen. Now 46 hours with no power. And it affected our water so no shower either. It’s getting ripe around here.

 

[LLCox]

I was so lost in Houston one time my GPS had me going around in circles. Nine million people in that berg.

 

[One_ping_only]

Sorry but it's Houston finally being punished for the Astros cheating a few years ago. They were never penalized for their cheating and it was obviously swept underneath the rug so to speak!!

 

[KeithD]

When the climate becomes more brutal on average in red states, it gets a little hard to muster up a lot of sympathy.

 

[Lazaran]

Highs in the 90’s, lows in the 70’s, no power for many, and problems with water.

Yikes.

 

[Escierto]

Any climate related disasters are well deserved by both Texas and Florida. Fuck them to hell. They should both be kicked out of the union. Most of them would suck Putin's cock after they are done being fucked by Trump.

 

[Lazaran]

Any climate related disasters are well deserved by both Texas and Florida. Fuck them to hell. They should both be kicked out of the union. Most of them would suck Putin's cock after they are done being fucked by Trump.

Yeah, no…

There are millions of decent, intelligent, non-MAGAts in Texas and Florida.

This isn’t a Sodom and Gomorrah situation.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Yeah, no…

There are millions of decent, intelligent, non-MAGAts in Texas and Florida.

This isn’t a Sodom and Gomorrah situation.

I’ve read somewhere that Texas would be blue if it wasn’t for the nearly 100% Republican vote out in west Texas (maybe the panhandle, I don’t remember exactly).

 

[MajorRewrite]

Interesting analysis of Texas’ trend toward becoming a blue state.

 

[Escierto]

Interesting analysis of Texas’ trend toward becoming a blue state.

Interesting article but the author ignores the fact that in Texas, Latinos are increasingly voting Republican. These pendejos think if you suck a white man's cock it makes you white. He also ignores the fact that more and more of the Texas population are embracing evangelical Christianity with predictable consequences. No, Texanistan will never be a blue state.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Interesting article but the author ignores the fact that in Texas, Latinos are increasingly voting Republican. These pendejos think if you suck a white man's cock it makes you white. He also ignores the fact that more and more of the Texas population are embracing evangelical Christianity with predictable consequences. No, Texanistan will never be a blue state.

Look at the article again. The numerical trend is clearly more blue every election.

 

[Escierto]

Look at the article again. The numerical trend is clearly more blue every election.

No, it's not. As even the article you cited concedes, in the most recent election in 2022, the Democrats were absolutely annihilated. The same will be true in 2024. Polls show that Ted Cruz will beat Allred by ten points, a far better performance than he managed six years ago. Texas and Florida are both hopeless. Democrats should spend their campaign funds in other places and abandon those states completely.

 

[Escierto]

Just to show you how hopeless it is, I live in Chip Roy's district. He is a right wing fanatic. In 2020 he barely won with 50.2%. The Republicans gerrymandered the district even worse than it already was and in 2022, Roy got over 60% of the vote. It is obvious that it no longer matters if I vote so I am joining the majority of Texans. I won't vote in future elections until I live somewhere else.

 

[Bray123]

It's OK folks, DeSantis signed a law banning climate change. So it's all sorted, nothing to see here.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a...a-governor-ron-desantis-solved-climate-change

 

[dkovic77]

Will if Nazi Ron did it, it must be a done deal. Until they started banning Bibles then he admitted it went too far.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Interesting analysis of Texas’ trend toward becoming a blue state.

The blue metroplexes of Texas (Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin) drive the economic engine that is Texas. Outside the blue metroplexes, the economy is basically supported by strategic placement of military bases.
Errybody (Rightguide mostly) talks about Californians decamping to Texas aren't settling in dusty mobile home parks, they're moving to the metroplexes.,,,and hooo-haaa! They're demanding the level of government services they had back in sunny California. They won't put up with the Texas power grid being down eight to ten days a year.

One of the dirty little secrets is that Texas has the most ramshackle traffic light system in America. Folks here joke that the traffic lights must be "unionized", because they get one or two days "off" per month. The federal DOT has invested tens of millions of infrastructure to improve the traffic grid. New lights are mostly build on poles and not haphazardly strung on wire across busy streets (when I first moved here we'd see traffic shut down so that yugely oversized drilling rig modules could be transported from factory to the port of Houston at 10mph....someone actually SAT atop the truck with a shuffleboard stick to push up the street lights so that the rig could pass beneath.

Texas is legit purple right now. Trending inevitably towards blue.

 

[wizzard426]

Just to show you how hopeless it is, I live in Chip Roy's district. He is a right wing fanatic. In 2020 he barely won with 50.2%. The Republicans gerrymandered the district even worse than it already was and in 2022, Roy got over 60% of the vote. It is obvious that it no longer matters if I vote so I am joining the majority of Texans. I won't vote in future elections until I live somewhere else.

Plenty of room for you in China

 

[wizzard426]

Still haven't seen any sea level rise..........besides the normal tides

So.....If I pay an extra tax The Algore can stop the tides?

 

[RobDownSouth]

Still haven't seen any sea level rise..........besides the normal tides

So.....If I pay an extra tax The Algore can stop the tides?

Ocean temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico are at levels generally seen in late July and it's only May.
Great recipe for major hurricanes.
I'm sure you'll natter "NOBODY could have known!" come August and September.

 

[Bray123]

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-sea-level

Global sea level has risen some 9 inches sins 1890 (about the date my grandfather was born). Just because it looks about the same as last year when you go to the beach doesn't mean much. On the plus side, one of the earliest properties to disappear will be Mar a Lago. How many more documents will wash out of secret spaces?

 

[Lazaran]

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-sea-level

Global sea level has risen some 9 inches sins 1890 (about the date my grandfather was born). Just because it looks about the same as last year when you go to the beach doesn't mean much. On the plus side, one of the earliest properties to disappear will be Mar a Lago. How many more documents will wash out of secret spaces?

And sea level rise is accelerating - it is expected to rise more in the next thirty years than it did in the previous one hundred years.



Also:

One inch of sea level rise results in about one hundred feet of shoreline loss. So the math for the predicted ten to twelve inches of sea level rise over the next thirty years is pretty simple: Over one thousand feet of shoreline lost worldwide over the next thirty years.

That ^ is bigly bad news.

 

[butters]

A new research study indicated that climate change is partially to blame for rising food costs. And, researchers say, it’s going to get worse.

infiltration of seawater into arable land, fresh water causing problems for sea-life, flooding causing destruction of crops and soil's integrity, fires, droughts, devastating weather events such as hurricane/tornadic activity, extremes and fluctuations in temperatures... all contribute to mass disruption of crop production, with pollenizers dying out, loss of food for birds and other wildlife and so on and so on.

the delicate balance, always in the balance, is swinging wildly now

 

[butters]

Wheat futures traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange are at their highest level in nearly a year as poor weather has hurt crop supplies from Australia to Russia. At the same time, prices for Arabica coffee beans and orange juice are near all-time highs as bad weather harms those products.

Asian rice prices are at a 15-year high currently, and the price of cocoa, the active ingredient in chocolate, has risen 10% in the last week alone as flooding has wiped out that crop in Africa.

Analysts blame the current situation on climate change and expect prices to remain elevated for the remainder of this year and into 2025.

Governments from Brazil to Thailand, and in the U.S., have sounded the alarm on food inflation as prices steadily increase, harming consumers in the process.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mar...&cvid=4118bf10e21e490d9ace7855947a4f00&ei=129

 

[butters]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/t...tp&cvid=1d1aed8ea5e84524a90f7072f4ccfd9d&ei=7

desantis signed bill eliminating 50 lines of the 2008 law, denying local gov'ts the ability to consider climate change in their decisions that might affect it, effectively increasing its dependence upon natural gas and ignoring Florida's already enhanced risk-status.

The bill disallows considering "the potential of global climate change" in state energy policy and disavows Florida's role as a leader in "promoting energy conservation, energy security, and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions," according to the Phoenix. State agencies will no longer have to consider environmental impacts when purchasing vehicles and other items or booking hotels.

In 2008, then-Gov. Charlie Crist, now a Democrat, signed a bill to address rising global temperatures and promote renewable energy. It passed through the Florida legislature unanimously, per the AP. This undoing will remove more than 50 lines of that law.

DeSantis canceled an appearance to sign the bill because of inclement weather.

Florida is being disproportionately impacted by the human-induced heating of the planet, which is caused by the use of dirty energy sources such as coal, oil, and gas. Since 1950, global temperatures have risen 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the Florida Climate Center. In the Sunshine State, that figure is 3.6 Fahrenheit, increasing extreme heat days and precipitation as well as causing more frequent and severe hurricanes and floods.

"I think it's taking us absolutely in the wrong direction," state Rep. Lindsay Cross said. "We can't deny that climate change is happening. Whether you trust the 99% of scientists who do believe in climate change, we know that weather is getting worse, that we have more extreme weather patterns with a very active hurricane season predicted.