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Welcome to Climate Psychotherapy

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 21:53:29 +0000

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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Flood Map Accuracy

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 13:50:18 +0000

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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NOAA Adopts New Normal: Hotter, Wetter

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 13 May 2021 18:44:50 +0000

NOAA has updated its climate statistics for the U.S. Every 10 years, the agency comes up with a “new normal” based on the last 30 years of data. The most recent 30 years, compared to previous averages, shows that our climate is getting hotter and wetter (at least in the Houston area). The “normals” help […]

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