NEW ORLEANS/WASHINGTON - Tropical Storm Barry, which is expected to flood New Orleans and threaten lives along the Mississippi River, is being fueled by warmth in the Gulf of Mexico that was likely exacerbated by climate change, scientists said on Friday.
“The real increased threat from a warming climate is an atmosphere that’s capable of producing higher intensity precipitation events,” said Jill Trepanier, an expert in extreme climatic and weather events at Louisiana State University. The lower Mississippi has already been running at flood stage for months after the so-called “bomb cyclone” and other storms starting in March that dumped huge volumes of rain on Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri - which flowed down the Mississippi and could further feed moisture to Barry, scientists said..
The city is particularly vulnerable to storms because it is “below sea level, protected by levees and pumping systems that remove rainwater, which cannot drain naturally,” the Environmental Protection Agency said in 2016 on its website, an entry moved to a web archive by the Trump administration., scientists said.
Development in the New Orleans region, a major oil hub, has made the area more vulnerable to storms, with the removal of wetlands which help protect coasts. Trepanier said the city has made some advances to protect against storm surge, but when storms meet river flooding it makes for a “more combined and complicated risk.
Don't tell Australians what scientists say! What does Alan Jones's bag of rice say?
If it’s named Barry, we can count on it being weak and overrated
Fossil fuel trolls love these climate change articles. Money in the bank. Literally.
There is no anthropologic climate change
There is no anthropologic climate change cause by CO2
Meanwhile...
It's heightened by all the tons of hard pollution sitting on the bottom of the great Mississippi River. Dredge the bottom of that mighty river and its depth would decrease by several feet. Same with our seas and oceans. Climate change is NOT a CO2 issue.
You mean climate modification.
Wait... Trump tweeted — “There is no climate crisis, there’s weather and climate all around the world, and in fact carbon dioxide is the main building block of all life.” 😞
B.S.
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The depth of ignorance in those who deny the climate change science astounds me.
The climate is changing more and more worse than before; we must discuss the really reasons of that problems and make solutions ; no need wait long time .!
This climate change factor relating to TSBarry is rubbish. Whilst this system is rare, one can provide comparisons. This has nothing to do with the political tool climate change
This year its climate change..yeah right...