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Old Posted Sep 22, 2019, 9:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Reverberation View Post
I think Houston is in a unique situation that has little to do with climate change. It’s been flooding here since people moved to the area and I suspect the recent troubles have more to do with heat island effect and impervious cover than they do with man-made climate change.
Related to a point I made earlier in this thread, climate change could also be speeding up these flooding events, even though they would eventually happen under "normal" conditions.