Deadly 1,000-year floods on the East Coast and in my home state of Tennessee.

[Uncle Joe]

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[leftyladyfrommo]

1. Only the thousand year floods keep happening every

few years.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Kill the Filibuster and get the Infrastructure Bill

Infrastructure done right will help us on Climate.

It's enough. Bridges are completely gone in central western NJ.

[Etherealoc1]

3. You would think the Democrats would

be all over this to push for the

ROBUST infrastructure bills.

[Uncle Joe]

4. Senator Schumer seemed to be pressing that point during a news conference

earlier this morning.

[marie999]

5. There might be an infrastructure bill.

What will be done about climate change will be so minuscule that it will not have any effect. Are the United States and other industrialized countries going to change the ways we live so 3rd world countries can have what we have? If not then 3rd world countries will not do anything to slow down climate change. How are we going to get 3rd world countries and China to stop building coal-fueled plants and switch to green energy? We talk about how we have known about climate change since the 60s when in fact it has been studied since the 1800s. Actually, there has always been climate change what I am referring to is man-made climate change.

[Uncle Joe]

7. That's right, since 1859. "Meet the woman who first identified the greenhouse effect"

(snip)


A recently digitised copy of The American Journal of Science and Arts suggests a woman beat him to it, however.

It includes a presentation by Eunice Foote to a top US science conference in 1856. She describes filling glass jars with water vapour, carbon dioxide and air, and comparing how much they heated up in the sun.

“The highest effect of the sun’s rays I have found to be in carbonic acid gas,” she writes, using the contemporary term for carbon dioxide.

“The receiver containing the gas became itself much heated – very sensibly more so than the other – and on being removed, it was many times as long in cooling.”


https://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/09/02/the-woman-who-identified-the-greenhouse-effect-years-before-tyndall/

[Duppers]

10. Thank you for posting this!

Can use this to throw at my Fux-watching, E. Tenn. warming denying brother who believes this is just recently invented Democratic propaganda.

He won't even believe his b.i.l.

[hatrack]

6. Central Park got 3.15 inches of rain in one hour last night . . .

In the past two weeks, New York City has had three of its top 20 heaviest one-hour downpours on record; four of the top 20 have come this year. On Aug. 21, it received 1.69 and 1.84 inches in back-to-back hours. Another top-20 one-hour rainfall occurred on July 8, when 1.54 inches fell in a single hour.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/09/01/new-york-city-flash-flood/

[maxsolomon]

8. There will be no meaningful action.

The GQP and the Polluters they protect have used their power to block it.

Maybe, 20 years from now, when McConnell's generation are in their graves, there might be some movement. But not now.

Sorry, that's just where America is at.

[Rhiannon12866]

9. Twitter reply:

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[smirkymonkey]

11. K&R