WASHINGTON — When almost a month’s worth of rain deluged this city on Monday morning, turning streets into rivers and basements into wading pools, it showed just how vulnerable cities with aging water systems can be in the era of climate change.The rainfall overwhelmed the capital’s storm-water system, much of it built almost a century ago to handle a smaller population, far less pavement and not nearly as much water.“We’re still approaching this 21st-century problem with 20th-century infrastructure, and it’s completely inadequate,” said Constantine Samaras, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. “And it’s only going to get worse.”Updating that infrastructure will be enormously expensive, experts warn, not just in Washington but around the country. That’s not only because upgrades are required. In many cases, cities are facing huge backlogs in general maintenance.
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
As I've been saying...
The New York Times writes, after this week's flash flooding in Washington:
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You don’t learn do you?
Lets go over it again. Cause anyone who looked at the evidence knew this was barrelling down the pike at us. The solar cycles have been weak even since 23. But 24 was weaker and 25 will be worse. Sustained lack of solar action means an invasion of cosmic rays which are cloud makers.
There is no possible way that CO2 can be a stand-in for rain-drop nucleation.
Graeme - it's pretty easy:
* If you don't bring in Jews or Jewishness into the matter, I usually let it go.
* Call me, or anyone, a c__t, and of course I delete it.
I'm not going to engage with you in attempted debate, though, on climate change or anything else, because there is clearly no hope of dealing with you rationally.
Don't be dictating to me you science-denying reason-rejecting non-entity. Not until you are a proven patriot. Now about this updating infrastructure being expensive. This is not always true and you haven't been paying attention. You don't worry about the towns infrastructure in every case.
What is often important is swaling the hills in the CATCHMENT area surrounding the city. Swaling the hills, improving the soils then putting in ponds and so forth. Still if suburbia is spreading everywhere its possible that this will be a fail. But usually you have these surrounding hills that need to be swaled and the cities won't fair so badly.
Graeme Steve is a softy at heart because he's Catholic and believes in redemption. Just avoid the J word and the C word
GMB7:29 pm
Don't be dictating to me you science-denying reason-rejecting non-entity.
Step, I hate to say this, but birdstein makes a fair and reasonable point in this instance.
Stepford:
There is no point having arguments about unprovable factors like a flood in DC. In point of fact - if one really thinks about it- a DC flooding is very beneficial to the country. :-)
Again, if you're really that concerned about gerbil warming, then advocate for 4th gen nuclear energy.
Lets go over it again. Cause anyone who looked at the evidence knew this was barrelling down the pike at us. The solar cycles have been weak even since 23. But 24 was weaker and 25 will be worse. Sustained lack of solar action means an invasion of cosmic rays which are cloud makers.
There is no possible way that CO2 can be a stand-in for rain-drop nucleation.
You know JC. It breaks my heart that we don't have safe saturation floating nuclear. Because uranium is the one fuel that you can transport as far as you want without any serious gain in cost as compared to the yield. Actually oil at sea is pretty efficient too, since the Japs started making those giant post-war tankers. But gas is only good to transport through pipelines. And coal is a tragedy of wastage to transport really. Even though its the most easily available fuel still for the next few decades. In the wider scheme of things we would have wanted to move uranium and thorium hither and yon and keep the coal closer to home.
The way the oligarchy does things is they see that there are areas with abnormal margins where competition cannot wipe out everyone. Then they attach huge debt to these items. It took a lot of effort to make oil a high margin business. The effort is ongoing.
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