A major hurricane hit Florida last week, and only one person died directly — amazing!
The lesson is that mankind can engineer its way out of most of the adverse effects of climate change or spend billions and trillions more on unproven schemes to alter the atmosphere’s composition, etc., without any practical result.
The weather satellites were working in 2005, and New Orleans residents were given adequate warning about what could happen. But government officials, particularly at the local level, were slow to act. Many neighborhoods in New Orleans are below sea level and depend on levies to protect them from high water.
Reinforced concrete buildings with living areas above 18 feet above sea level can withstand almost all likely sea surges. Typical one-story Florida houses in areas less than 10 feet above sea level are slowly being replaced by taller, more robust structures.
Sea levels have risen for the last 12,000 years since the end of the last ice age. It has been a slow process, enabling people to rebuild their towns over the centuries at higher and higher levels, almost without notice. The U.S. has been reducing its carbon emissions, mainly by substituting natural gas for coal, but China and India are building new coal-fired plants at a furious pace. China accounts for about one-third of global carbon dioxide emissions .
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