Alan Carlin: Reducing CO2 Emissions Is Not a Useful Substitute for Effective Stormwater Management

Houston – August 2017 [image credit: BBC]

The author writes: ‘ask yourself whether you would rather buy a house in a flood prone area with effective stormwater management or with CO2 emission controls and subsidies’.

Hurricane Harvey has undoubtedly caused great damage to Houston and surrounding areas on the Texas Coast. The climate alarmists have immediately tried to blame carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by humans, of course.

My comment is that if the US had devoted the resources wasted on CO2-oriented climate research and building “renewable” sources of energy on decreasing the vulnerability of the Texas Gulf Coast to floods the US would have been far far better off.

The Houston area has had problems with floods since it was founded and has apparently not implemented the needed stormwater management measures and/or imposed building restrictions to alleviate these problems to the extent needed, let alone prevent them.

As a result of a very major flood in 1935 they formed a flood control district, but obviously their efforts have not been sufficient to solve the problem. And in the meantime the Houston area has grown enormously, which creates ever more impermeable surfaces and more human structures that can be damaged by flooding.

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