Muck’s Minute #42

Climate Change, Nasty Tropical Weather and Unbelievers

I’m sorry to have to say this but all those – from President Trump and EPA Chief Scott Pruitt need to listen hard, hear a giant sucking sound as they pull their heads out of their respective asses and give up denying that a more CO2 in the atmosphere leading to warmer climates, hence warmer ocean water, leads to bigger and better tropical storms, shifts in weather patterns and generally raises hell with human comforts and constructive efforts.

That’s not all a warmer climate does, by any means.  It makes geographical locations of fields of green with plentiful rainfall into arid grasslands and places with lots of dry rock and dirt into not so beautiful places of wet rock and mudslides.

It also contributes to more powerful localized storms such as tornadoes and in the generalized temperature rise, makes air conditioning needed where none was required before.

Then we have the lovely problem of sea level rise – WHICH IS HAPPENING – albeit slowly so the average non-thinking American (much less the less-thinking rest of the world) doesn’t notice it.

The country who will fell rising tides and storm surge first and with most effect is Bangladesh.  This benighted country is wholly confined to the delta of the mighty Ganges River which stretches from the Himalayas to the Sea of Bengal.

It has been said that any and all evaporation of water from the Ganges River is more than made up from the urine output of the millions and millions of people who pee in it every day.

At any rate, the places the normal hight about sea level of Bangladesh at a mere 33 feet (rising to 300 feet or so in the far North of the country as the foothills of the Himalayas start).

Now many other places (Miami Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, New York City, London, much of the Netherlands), and a hell of a lot of near sea level cities will go first due to storm surges (a la Fukushima) where the sea simply rises up (be it from Hurricane or earthquake) and flows inland – and keeps flowing – and keeps flowing until it covers the maximum amount of dry land it can before running out of “rise power”.

None the less, a rise of a single foot (1 ft.) in sea level tacked onto a storm surge will guarantee catastrophic coastline destruction during a storm.

What it boils down to is that a small rise in sea level will guarantee large damage to those low areas right along the shore.  A large rise in sea level (coming later) will guarantee a massive relocation of millions of people, along with all their institutions, inland, to escape what will be a map changing catastrophe on all our shores.

That comes later – which is why stupid politicians hand it off to future generations knowing they themselves will be gone or dead before it happens.  Much like the Fed’s printing and borrowing now for your grandchildren to be forced to pay back.  Same principle, different subject. One effects our USA and the other effects the world.

This, in turn, brings up the subject of Muck’s Minute #43 which will be forthcoming in a few days.  The subject of this one is the absolutely insane Federal Policy of Flood Insurance which encourages Americans to build in flood zones, on beaches guaranteed to be washed away and so on.  Why not? The taxpayer will pay to have your lovely beach-side home rebuilt.  PUKE..  But that’s for a later day..

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Retired Engineer and Scientist (electronic, optics, mechanical) lives in a pleasant retirement community in Central Florida. He is interested in almost everything and comments on most of it. A pragmatic libertarian at heart he welcomes comments on all that he writes. View all posts by MuckAbout