And, he laid the wood down about how serious the problem is. He said most of the state is averaging about 0.6 percent F per decade, that this is outside the range of natural variability, and that even a study funded by the Koch Bros. showed some of this. BOOM.
Now, the hammer, part 1. For a variety of reasons, Texas ain't prepared for this, plus the increased rain that's only likely to continue to grow, on average, in the eastern two-thirds of the state:
Nielsen-Gammon said 100-degree days are increasing at twice the rate in urban areas than in semi-urban or rural areas, but that trend can be changed with sustainable building practices. The problem is that right now the infrastructure in place was not built to withstand the current weather.
“We have infrastructure that’s designed to deal with extreme events, and it’s not designed to be fail-safe, but it’s designed to fail rarely,” he said. “Right now, when we design infrastructure, we design it for the historical probabilities. Historical probabilities are somewhere between the 1900 curve and the 2017 curve, so we’re already literally behind the curve.”
Well, there you go. So, you builders? Ignore the wingnuts in the Texas Lege.
You residents? If you're buying a new home, look to who the developer is. Then go to the Texas Ethics Commission and the Federal Elections Commission and see who they give campaign money to.
Now, the hammer, part 2:
“It’s the fact that temperatures are going to continue to rise that’s actually going to cause the ecosystems of the planet to experience something they haven’t experienced for 100,000 years,” he said. “With even further projections, it’s something they haven’t experienced in 3 million years.”
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