I did some back of the envelope calculations and it looked to me that the leakage would fill Lake Austin from empty to the brim. That’s a lot of water

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prasadjoglekar 4 days ago | parent [-]

This is one example of why I've stopped listening to climate change alarmists. Instead of doing the grunt work of local utility maintenance, it's so much easier to blame "climate change". The climate may be changing, but it's a convenient excuses to not do anything.

Another example - in NYC a few years back, several people died when floodwaters entered their basement homes.

Mayor De Blasio: Climate change.

Local resident: you guys didn't clean out the drains, it's all clogged.

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teachrdan 4 days ago | parent [-]

> This is one example of why I've stopped listening to climate change alarmists.

I'm not sure if I understand your logic. People who advocate to stop climate change (alarmists?) literally never use is as a convenient excuse "not to do anything." If you could provide an example I'd be happy to take that statement back.

Instead, the point is that, due to climate change, we're having more and more instances where something as trivial as a clogged drain can lead to people drowning in their basement apartments.

EDIT: On reflection, the so-called "climate change alarmists" who say you should "not do anything" are probably shills for big corporations, who want to save money on risk mitigation by saying there's no point because it's too late to mitigate the risks of climate change.

	▲	delecti 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, if anything I think that people alarmed about climate change tend to skew left, and left-leaning people also tend to feel that the government should do more, in general. "This is a problem and we should ignore it" is the opposite of alarmism.