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Originally Posted by Tinordi
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This is disingenuous. With or without climate change this storm happens.
The probability of it happening might have gone from .2% per year to 1% per year but there has always been a non-zero chance of it happening. Most of the issues caused by this storm are due to poor development practices around drainage and sprawl.
There wasn't even a significant storm surge with Harvey relative to the nightmare storm that could happen. (again with or without climate change).
Blaming climate change for this seems like trying to politicise the problem to get support for a massive issue that effects the world when in reality these hurricane damages are simple engineering problems.
Set a design capacity for these systems and design accordingly. This does not happen because it gets wrapped up in the politics of climate change.
Like the Katrina levy failure this is a failure of engineering not a failure of environmental policy.