If you hate protesters blocking roads in the name of taking immediate #ClimateAction, you’re going to really hate how Climate Change itself blocks roads.
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to Camerondotca last edited by
@camerondotca or “really old thing should be torn down to make way for new thing”
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Nicole Parsonsreplied to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 last edited by
#KochNetwork spent a lot of money on climate denying Republicans and a corrupt Supreme Court willing to kneecap the EPA.
This is the result. Billions in damages, pennies in recompense.
https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/koch-industries-inc-oil-spills-settlementhttps://theintercept.com/2022/06/30/supreme-court-epa-climate-charles-koch/
Charles Koch has set aside $5 billion to finish what he started.
Ending Democracy. Frying the planet.
Embedding public corruption everywhere.
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@chris it is devastating to see this, especially having lived 1 1/2 years in Valencia.
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@chris I live about a mile down from the Encino reservoir in LA’s San Fernando Valley. When I say “down”, I mean down the hill. I hope this never happens here. It must’ve taken a massive downhill overflow of water to drag all those cars that way.
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@obrien_kat sounds like it. I would like to live in Valencia one day, so this hurts.
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@rick1960 sounds like there were fires about 10 years ago in the foothills to the East where the rains were strongest yesterday. It may have contributed to the incredible speed of the flood.
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@JohnJBurnsIII @chris I wonder if there is anything like NOAA Atlas 14 for the EU / Spain?
I'm starting to think recurrence interval would be a good way to express, uh, 'unprecedentedness', without having to convert metric/US systems...
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@chris Hi Chris! Just a small correction, the name of the town is Sedavi. Great thread!
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@dave @JohnJBurnsIII I am sure there is but I'm not familiar with how to get to the information.
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@ilsk see my replies in the thread, all the news articles with the original photos are there.
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@danigjz ah! Thank you. Sorry about the typo.
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@chris Those picturesque European cities with narrow, paved roads, are particularly great at funnelling water through instead of away from things. Pretty scary.
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@CStamp the irony is there is an 4 lane highway on either side the river that flooded. Narrow and wide, the river takes all!
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@ArchaeoIain I learned this today! Thank you! There are a few places in the world that have tried to do this (Winnipeg, Canada is another). It generally just moves the problem elsewhere. I don't know if it is fair at all to say this outcome is better than what might have been if the river had not been rerouted. We'll never really know.
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 last edited by
“With every fraction of a degree of fossil fuel warming, the atmosphere can hold more moisture, leading to heavier bursts of rainfall,” said Dr Friederike Otto, from Imperial College London, who leads an international group of scientists who try to understand the role that warming plays in these type of events.
“No doubt about it, these explosive downpours were intensified by climate change.”
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 last edited by
Hey @GottaLaff! You know how Project 2025 proposes to get rid of things like the NOAA and FEMA? Well the left-wing government in the Valencia region got replaced last year with a right wing government and lo-and-behold:
"Valencia’s regional government has also been forced to defend its decision to scrap the Valencia Emergency Unit, which had been set up by the previous government to tackle natural disasters such as flooding and wildfires.”
Spain flood death toll expected to rise as dozens missing
Spain is enduring its worst flooding disaster in decades, with at least 95 people dead and dozens more missing.
(www.bbc.com)
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thepoliticalcatreplied to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 last edited by
@chris @GottaLaff THIS is what happens when you vote climate-change deniers into office. You can't outbuild or outrun the coming disasters, people. FIX IT NOW or prepare to die. There's no middle ground here.
