re: #97 freetoken

Heaviest rains in 60 years kill 10 in Beijing: media

Lots of severe weather.

A former girlfriend lives in Beijing (I think, still). Not a place she wanted to live but she could find good work there.

I think many Americans are just not aware of what life is like over there, and what then motivates China to do what it does at times. Its not a mystery, really, when one realizes the magnitude of the population, its long and tough history, and the gordian knot complexity of the whole environment.

Well, welcome to the greenhouse! We had historic drought in Texas last summer during La Nina. Our Bastrop Complex fire destroyed +/- 3000 homes. This year, decent rainfall has increased soil moisture out of the Extreme and Exceptional categories, but has had little impact on our reservoirs, especially in central and especially west Texas (they are just fucked).

This year’s El Nino has resulted in the droughts in the grain belt that is pushing corn to near record highs. This is not surprising. The amplitude and severity of weather events has long been predicted by climatologists due to climate change. Our window for action is closing fast before things start getting *really* weird.

As I said, welcome to the greenhouse. This is the new normal.