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Rain in Spain and Sad, Sorry State of Climate-Change Speculation

10/31/24 – An extreme rainfall event near Valencia in southern Spain on Tuesday this week fueled a spate of hasty climate change stories. But was that the cause of the flooding? A year’s worth of rain fell in a day. The area has an average annual rainfall of 17.87 inches. October is their rainiest month with […]

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Welcome to Climate Psychotherapy

Two nights ago I started to hug my wife. “Not tonight,” she said.  “What’s wrong,” I asked. “Headache?” “No,” she sighed. “Climate change.” The temperature in the room dropped about 10 degrees. “I see what you mean,” I said. Ironically, the next morning, I opened the New York Times to an article by Brooke Jarvis. The […]

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Hurricane Lee, Climatology, Data Truncation and the News

Noon, September 16, 2023 – An Associated Press headline this morning trumpeted “Climate change could bring more monster storms like Hurricane Lee to New England.” I immediately went to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) website to see the most current conditions. Lee had been downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone with 75 mph winds. But it […]

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Where to Find Reliable Climate Data

Where can you find reliable climate data if you want to cross check a claim you hear on the news? Harris County Meteorologist Jeff Lindner referred me to two sites recently: The U.S. Drought Monitor and the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program (SCIPP) website. To help produce these resources, NOAA has collaborated with universities and […]

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Flood Map Accuracy

On December 6, 2022, The Washington Post ran an article titled “America Underwater: Extreme floods expose the flaws in FEMA’s risk maps.” The lengthy story by Samuel Oakford, John Muyskens, Sarah Cahlan and Joyce Sohyun Lee cross-referenced photos and videos with FEMA flood maps from areas around the country that flooded last summer. The basic […]

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