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We need better water/stormwater management, alert systems, and emergency response planning:
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The hurricane season hit Ontario and Quebec this year, sparing the maritimes.
We got nothing like North Carolina or Spain, true, but we certainly got a warning.
There’s a city meeting on Nov 13 about the updated flood mitigation plans, lots of houses here had basements flooded in areas where the city hasn’t had problems before. We thought we were well away from any actual flooding danger, but were wrong by about 40cm in the back yard. That has triggered repairs, mitigation etc that have cost us a chunk.
What was particularly alarming was how badly the forecasters missed the main July event here. I saw it coming on the radar on a day where rain was forecast, but only a fraction of what finally arrived. We had an hour’s warning, completely mis-understood where the problem was going to come from, and only barely escaped a fully flooded basement.
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And as Colgan notes, the 30-million figure only takes into account the floating ice around the edges of the glacier. If you factor in the entire ice sheet, including below sea level, the total ice loss is around 9,000 and 10,000 tonnes a second, he estimated.
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There’s an important point made in the “Can Climate Models Be Trusted?” and “Where is that Tipping Point?” sections of the article below. The best simulations now forecast 2040 as the median time for the collapse of the AMOC (a.k.a. gulf stream, Europe’s freebie petawatt-scale heating system). The simulations don’t properly account for increases in Greenland melt, and that Greenland’s melting process is full of “tipping points” of its own.
And here’s a little reality check on which way these simulations break. The cool spot near Greenland is a bad thing: it’s fresh, cold water floating where it shouldn’t be, if the AMOC is to be sustained.
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Well, fuck
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I think that belongs in the Apocalypse Watch thread.
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10,000 tons per second, about the volume of 4 olympic pools per second, or 4x the average flow over the Niagara falls.
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“ NOTUS, short for News of the United States, reported that publicly funded Citizens Property Insurance has denied 77% of claims stemming from Hurricane Debby in August, per Newsweek.”
Marco Rubio doesn’t care - he’s got his ticket out of the state.
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