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5 hours ago, ztejas said:

Buddy on ig just posted this. Anyone have an answer for him? 

@phdhorn?

This is referencing the greenbelt that runs through Austin. 

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I follow a site on FB called "Does the Greenbelt Have Water." They showed plenty of videos of a wet greenbelt. 

23 minutes ago, Chopper said:

A mostly worthless opinion column by a posturing Michael Bloomberg illustrates that even one aggy knows what's up

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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-07-08/michael-bloomberg-texas-floods-made-worse-by-climate-denialism

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Sir, this isn't news. This is just a political opinion. You're in the wrong place. 

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38 minutes ago, Chopper said:

A mostly worthless opinion column by a posturing Michael Bloomberg illustrates that even one aggy knows what's up

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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-07-08/michael-bloomberg-texas-floods-made-worse-by-climate-denialism

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For those that can't get behind the paywall:

 

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The Texas Floods Were Made Worse by Climate Denialism

Elected officials must be held accountable, now and in the future, for the lives lost in disasters brought on by increasingly extreme weather.

July 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM CDT
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Michael R. Bloomberg is the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News, and the founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies.
No one can do this alone.

No one can do this alone.

 

 

The tragic news out of central Texas has been heartbreaking, but it’s also been maddening — because so many lives could have been saved if elected officials had done their jobs. They owe the families who lost loved ones — the death toll from the Fourth of July floods is now at more than 100 — more than thoughts and prayers. They owe them a sincere commitment to righting their deadly wrong, by tackling the problem they’ve turned their backs on for too long: climate change.

The scientific evidence is clear that the more frequent extreme weather we are experiencing is being driven by climate change — and that it’s only going to get worse. As the director of the Texas Center for Extreme Weather at Texas A&M University put it, the storms and flooding in central Texas are “exactly what the future is going to hold.” And yet so many elected officials are pretending otherwise.

The latest episode of horrific flooding isn’t just about a natural disaster in one state. It’s also about a political failure that’s been happening in states across the country, and most of all in Washington. The refusal to recognize that climate change carries a death penalty is sending innocent people, including far too many children, to early graves.

 

Nearly a year ago, Hurricane Helene caused devastating flooding in western North Carolina that killed more than 100 people. A few months later, wildfires in California killed 30 people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. This month, the death and destruction of climate change came to Texas. Where will be next? No place is safe.

Not every life can be spared from climate change, unfortunately, but many more could be saved if elected officials stopped pretending that they’re powerless to do anything about it. The fact is: Climate change is a manageable problem with practical solutions. Those solutions will not only save lives, but they will also improve our health, reduce our energy bills and create more jobs. The longer these officials pretend otherwise, the more the public will suffer, and the more people will die. And yet what are those in power in Washington doing? Worse than nothing: They are actively thwarting efforts to address climate change and help communities cope with its harms.

The Trump administration has erased the words “climate change” — and critical climate data and information — from government websites, as if the problem could be wished away. It is attempting to roll back the Environmental Protection Agency’s obligation to fight climate change. And it has put lives at risk by canceling grants to local communities to help them prepare for the effects of climate change — and by cutting essential positions at the National Weather Service that help communities prepare and respond to disasters, leaving the weather service’s offices in the areas around the flooding short-staffed.

Last week, the administration even proposed eliminating a research office that plays a critical role in forecasting extreme weather. And that’s not the end of it.

On the same day the Texas floods killed dozens of people, the president signed a budget bill that, in addition to piling on $3 trillion to the national debt, gutted the nation’s efforts to promote renewable energy sources. The new budget repeals tax credits for clean energy production, electric vehicles and clean manufacturing while also eliminating the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which Congress created to help increase private-sector investment in clean energy. As a result, many fewer such projects will be built, killing jobs in communities across the country and driving up energy costs.

 

All of this will make it harder for the US to drive down the greenhouse-gas emissions that are helping to supercharge deadly storms, while increasing the human toll and financial costs of extreme weather — and making it harder for states and localities to recover from it.

Local and state governments do not have the resources to dig out from disasters on their own, which is why Texas Governor Greg Abbott has requested support and financial assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Yet the administration has been busy gutting the agency, which has lost some 20% of its full-time staff since the start of the year. Making matters worse, the administration has proposed getting rid of FEMA altogether, which would be a disaster in itself.

 

In short: The federal government is attempting to get out of the business of helping communities prepare for and respond to climate-fueled weather disasters just as they’re becoming more deadly and destructive. It won’t work. As the flooding in Texas painfully demonstrates, Washington cannot escape its duty to confront climate change. Trying to do so will only lead to higher body counts and heavier financial burdens on communities.

To Abbott’s credit, he has stood up for the state’s clean energy industry and helped kill several bills that would have put an anti-free-market cap on clean energy production and subjected wind and solar power projects to additional red tape. We need more of our elected representatives to recognize that climate change should not be a partisan issue — and that it requires urgent cooperation from members of both parties, as well as both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.

That’s not only the right thing to do. Increasingly, it will also become the essential thing to do for political self-survival — because as extreme weather events become more and more frequent, voters will increasingly hold elected officials accountable for taking action.

 

There is much more that our governments can be doing to protect us — and our children and theirs — from the worsening effects of climate change. But for that to happen, all of us need to make our voices heard, and our votes count.

He sure as shit better be pitching in big $$$ from the Philanthropies side of the house for as much as he's Monday Morning QBing this.

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16 hours ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

Take it to the cloak room jabroni. Keep this bullshit out of here.

Fuck you, you dumbass snowflake piece of shit.  Facts over goddamned feelings.  You should be forced to look at pics of these dead children and campers daily.  
 

im sick of posters like you being a snowflake and crying to send it to cloak room where you can’t handle the fucking debate.  

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Posted
5 hours ago, ztejas said:

Buddy on ig just posted this. Anyone have an answer for him? 

@phdhorn?

This is referencing the greenbelt that runs through Austin. 

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Depends on how far back in time you wanna go. I’m just playing the odds and assuming the person who posted that hasn’t lived here their whole lives…
 

I live on Barton Creek, albeit a bit upstream. It got a pretty decent amount of water, and it’s still flowing nicely, but it didn’t really get THAT much water. We’ve had several storms over the last few years that contributed far more to it. The water is staying in the creek longer than it has in 4-5 years simply because the rain has come in several spurts, but we never got a sustained influx of a lot of water. Now, one more good deluge would probably do it, at least where I am, but that doesn’t seem to be in the cards.

20-30 years ago though? Yeah, I don’t know the answer. Growing up, there was water down there most years, even fairly late into the summer. Of course, there were bad years when it mostly dried up before school even let out, but those were the exceptions. They now seem closer to the rule. Purely from my own observations, it just seems like there’s far less residual, ground water. Back in the day, after heavy rains, it seemed like water was coming out of the ground (near the creeks) for weeks. Now, it’s a couple days at best. I’d assume that has a lot to do with construction and impervious cover doing a number of things (destroying a lot of those natural underground waterways, diverting water elsewhere, collecting water in retention ponds, etc). Just think about every culvert and storm drain. So much water is collected far from the creek and then dumped almost straight into it. All that water used to take days/weeks to work its way down to the creek. It now happens in minutes. That leaves the creeks to receive the initial runoff, but provides far less residual groundwater inflow.  That leads to empty creek beds within days, even after torrential downpours. 
 

There’s surely other reasons, but I’d be shocked if my theory isn’t a huge contributing factor.

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38 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

I was going to go into either astronomy or meteorology as a career, then I entered both programs in college - and promptly found out that there were no chicks (definitely not the case now as you guys frequently have posted here), and a buncha nerds which closely resembled the seating section that Pinto and Flounder were invited to sit in at the Omega House.

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Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

I follow a site on FB called "Does the Greenbelt Have Water." They showed plenty of videos of a wet greenbelt. 

Sir, this isn't news. This is just a political opinion. You're in the wrong place. 

I know (okay I don't know for surrrrre) that you're being sarcastic but I thought I posted it to CR. Oh well. #toomanythreads

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Posted
15 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

There’s surely other reasons, but I’d be shocked if my theory isn’t a huge contributing factor.

That theory doesn't hold any water.

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Posted
29 minutes ago, bolverk said:

That theory doesn't hold any water.

But Lake Travis does!

Up to 658.6, so now it's 21' up and still rising, if much slower.  

LCRA reports that flood operations at Wirtz and Starcke have concluded for the time being.

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1 hour ago, HalfSack Horn said:

Fuck you, you dumbass snowflake piece of shit.  Facts over goddamned feelings.  You should be forced to look at pics of these dead children and campers daily.  
 

im sick of posters like you being a snowflake and crying to send it to cloak room where you can’t handle don't have to engage in the fucking debate.  

FIFY

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This is also news - it's not just more frequent storms, and more water in the atmosphere to be aware of, but the “trapping” effect that causes weather such as heat domes or rainstorms to remain over one region is becoming more frequent. Further, the current-generation climate models do not do a good job in capturing this phenomenon.

 

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