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Report Seeks to 'Future-Proof' Texas From Climate Change Without Saying So Directly
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The report calls Hurricane Harvey a warning that should not be ignored. "The enormous toll on individuals, businesses and public infrastructure should provide a wake-up call underlining the urgent need to 'future-proof' the Gulf Coast - and indeed all of Texas - against future disasters.'"
govtech.com - BY ANNA KUCHMENT, THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS / DECEMBER 13, 2018
To protect itself from the next major hurricane, Texas will have to build storm-surge barriers, shore up wetlands, buy out residents who live in vulnerable areas, rethink development plans and raise the first floors of existing buildings, suggests a sweeping new report prepared for Gov. Greg Abbott and released Thursday afternoon.
The new recommendations come from Abbott's Commission to Rebuild Texas, led by Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp . . .
. . . While the report, "Eye of the Storm," takes into account findings from climate scientists, including that sea levels are rising and that storms are becoming more frequent and severe, nowhere does it explicitly mention climate change or its main underlying cause, the burning of fossil fuels.
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Scientists To Abbott: “Climate Change Is Happening”
An aerial view of the flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas, Aug. 31, 2017. Courtesy of U.S. Air Force, Tech Sgt. Larry E. Reid Jr.
CLICK HERE - LETTER - Scientists to Governor Greg Abbott (5 page .PDF document)
Texas scientists want to brief Governor Greg Abbott on climate change and the impact it’s having on the state.
houstonpublicmedia.org - by Travis Bubenik - January 8, 2019
Texas scientists plan to deliver a letter Tuesday to Governor Greg Abbott, saying they want the chance to educate him on climate change.
The move comes after the governor said in December it’s “impossible” for him to say whether man-made climate change has contributed to natural disasters in Texas.
“Listen, I’m not a scientist,” the governor told a reporter, according to the Dallas Morning News.
In the letter, scientists from Texas A&M, the University of Texas system and Rice University respond, saying climate change contributed to Hurricane Harvey’s deadly flooding and that it’s “primarily caused by humans.”
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