Upcoming NOAA report predicts increased rainfall as engineers rush to deal with more rain, more often
July 21, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
Even back in the late 1990s, Bruce Wilson was seeing the concrete-and-asphalt examples of how a warmer, wetter climate was affecting Minnesota. Continue Reading
It’s ironic that the flood control discussion is focused on improving the very infrastructure that often accelerates and increases the damage. No discussion is included concerning the increase in volume and velocity of floodwater due to removal of wetlands, clear cutting of forests and general disregard for hydrology when approving these huge development projects in the Lake Superior watershed. It’s sort of like your dog chasing its tail.
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I just went from MI to OK and the sides of the roads are real tinder boxes….Crops are wilting….Yet not that far north there’s way too much water, and they keep getting some…..Strange how that works….If some of thagt water could make its way to IL they’d be more than happy to have a deluge for a day or so…Man are they dry in places….
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Any serious scientist, (without a political agenda) will tell you there is no way we can predict with any accuracy how the climate is going to change over the next decade.
We don’t understand all the mechanisms at play and the ones we do understand are too complex to deal with.
Still, I suppose it’s prudent to plan for bad weather.
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