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				<h2>The Elephant in the&nbsp;Flood</h2>

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					<span class="date_day">29</span>
					<span class="date_month">08</span>
					<span class="date_year">2017</span>
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					<p><img data-attachment-id="782" data-permalink="https://ibiwatch.wordpress.com/2017/08/29/the-elephant-in-the-flood/houston-flood/" data-orig-file="https://ibiwatch.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/houston-flood.jpg?w=510" data-orig-size="1240,744" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Houston Flood" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://ibiwatch.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/houston-flood.jpg?w=510?w=300" data-large-file="https://ibiwatch.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/houston-flood.jpg?w=510?w=510" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-782" src="https://ibiwatch.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/houston-flood.jpg?w=510" alt="Houston Flood" srcset="https://ibiwatch.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/houston-flood.jpg?w=510 510w, https://ibiwatch.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/houston-flood.jpg?w=1020 1020w, https://ibiwatch.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/houston-flood.jpg?w=150 150w, https://ibiwatch.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/houston-flood.jpg?w=300 300w, https://ibiwatch.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/houston-flood.jpg?w=768 768w" sizes="(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px"   />Hurricane Harvey has become a storm for the ages.  Unlike old-fashioned hurricanes, the storm lingers over a particular area before sliding at a snail’s pace to another region to torment residents there. As of this writing, some three feet of rain has fallen in and around Houston, with a couple more feet predicted before the event is over later this week.  Tens of thousands have had their lives upended, with countless homes and businesses destroyed. Current death toll is 14, but that will rise, maybe significantly.</p>
<p>Mainstream media accounts are full of superlatives, and rightly so.  The hurricane itself was bad enough – strong category 4 as it came ashore near Corpus Christi – but the lingering, unrelenting tropical rain that has followed is what has caused the big pain.  You will read all manner of drama in media accounts describing the flooding – “epic,” “biblical,” “unprecendented.” But what you won’t hear, and won’t even read, unless you dig deep, is “man-made climate change.”</p>
<p>OK, critics, now before you say, “how callous,” or “this is no time to talk about that,” listen here. First – I do care about the humanitarian side of this. In fact, this lightly-employed substitute teacher just made a generous donation to the <a href="https://www.unitedwayhouston.org/">United Way of Greater Houston</a>.  Second, to say this is not the time to talk about the science is to follow the same sort of mind-control thinking pushed by the NRA after a mass shooting.  You know, it’s time for “thoughts and prayers,” and then when the crisis recedes, there is nothing to talk about.</p>
<p>There is no better time to discuss the climate change connection with this out-of-control weather mess than right now, when it is smack dab in the middle of our faces. There are reasons why Harvey, and its remnants, are behaving in an unprecedented fashion.  A New York Times article (picked up by my local StarTribune but now not to be found on the Times site) explains the seasonally warm Gulf water, and the additional moisture – scientific fact – the atmosphere now holds thanks to our greenhouse gas emissions. But the authors go all mealy-mouthed when they devote a single paragraph to what they call “unknowns” around the climate-change connection to a lingering, monsoon-like hurricane such as Harvey. Here is the exact quote.  “Scientists are increasingly able to link some extreme weather events to climate change, but when it comes to hurricanes, many say there remain a number of unknowns.”</p>
<p>Bosh. No one in their right mind is saying that man-made climate change causes hurricanes, or even makes their appearance more frequent. But their behavior? That’s becoming clearer, disaster by disaster, if only we would learn the lessons.</p>
<p>For a quick update on the science – and Harvey’s strong climate-change connection – check this excellent new article from the Guardian, in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/29/how-did-climate-change-worsen-hurricane-harvey">question and answer format</a>.  It takes on some of the inevitable objections of climate change deniers (we’ve always had hurricanes, right?), but also hedges when it comes to the question of stationary weather.  That is, the observed increasing tendency of weather systems – including catastrophic weather systems like Harvey – to stall, battering locales with unheard-of long-duration deluges.  This reminds me of cutting-edge research by Rutgers University’s Jennifer Francis on the slowing of the Northern Hemisphere’s jet stream – resulting in many cases in stalled weather.  Here is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAiA-_iQjdU">one of her explanatory videos</a>, and here is <a href="https://ibiwatch.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/ibi-watch-111713/">a blog post</a> I wrote on this research several years ago.</p>
<p>Climate scientists have to hedge.  They are, after all, in the crosshairs of the best-funded, best-organized science denial (read: lying for hire) campaign since Big Tobacco was telling us cigarettes were good for our health.  Just ask <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-what-the-coming-attack-on-climate-science-could-look-like/2016/12/16/e015cc24-bd8c-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?utm_term=.92a8c059029d">Michael Mann</a> about that.</p>
<p>I don’t have to hedge. I don’t care who attacks my fact-backed opinions. But I do want to go on the record as saying that this monstrous post-hurricane flood event is directly connected to man-made climate change.  People are suffering in the US and elsewhere. In fact, predictions show that, irony of ironies, US red states – home in many cases to science denying governors and senators – <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/31eecf7d-2282-3d47-b1c3-643bb8cd0487/ss_this-map-projects-where.html">will suffer the most among American regions</a>. The suffering is only going to get worse until we wake up to the need for a WWII-like struggle against the climate crisis, as argued by, among others, <a href="https://350.org/">350.org</a>.</p>
<p>Man-made climate change – better called man-made climate disruption – is a serious and growing problem.  It was already a problem when I discovered it and started investigating the science back in the 1980s. It was a problem long before that, back when <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13042016/climate-change-global-warming-oil-industry-radar-1960s-exxon-api-co2-fossil-fuels">Rex Tillerson’s ExxonMobil</a> funded research that proved the fossil-fuel link.</p>
<p>You would think that we would have suffered enough, paid enough, learned enough by now to mount a consistent policy effort. But of course you would think wrong. We have elected as president a profoundly ignorant science denier who has called the climate crisis a “Chinese hoax,” and he has appointed a publicly pious, privately paranoid, lying oil shill as the self-directed wrecker of the EPA. And smilin’ Scott Pruitt – who sued EPA over a dozen times before his “triumphant” appointment – has gone on to become, by some measures, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-hatchet-pruitt-20170702-story.html">the most effective member</a> of this government-ravaging Cabinet.</p>
<p>If the Houston flood of 2017 is not enough to turn the tide of policy, what will it take? Or, to quote the late, great Pete Seeger, “When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?”</p>
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