RE:RE:RE:Views? " old man that uses multiple ID's to talk about climate change ..."
I haven’t posted about climate change since Helene roared through as I didn't want to be seen as exploiting the tragedy on-going in our southeastern states. Nor do I wish to seem removed from the loss of human life and home as so many have suffered today. However, since the subject was brought up, I can’t understand how anyone seeing the actual consequence of climate change could maintain their dangerous and foolish denial of reality. In science prediction is proof.
The consensus is that storms will become more violent, and after Helene, and Otis last year that made landfall at Acapulco, what we are learning is their unprecedented rapid intensification may become common.
Personally, having followed extreme weather events for several years, and reading reports of the many floods just this year in the U.S., Central Europe, west Africa, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, Paraguay, and others I can’t help comparing this disaster with those elsewhere.
Fortunately, we have the resources to repair our roads and rails, replace bridges washed out but lives cannot be replaced nor homes without flood insurance which is about 90% of one county in Tennessee. For several years the resources and energy of this nation will be directed toward restoring those ravaged communities. Which is not the case for poorer nations that have little to give, and limited resources to rebuild.