Warming the planet's oceans and other large bodies of water seems like a very bad idea, at this juncture.
Warming the planet's oceans and other large bodies of water seems like a very bad idea, at this juncture. It makes a lot of weather events much worse. By inference, this is also a reasonable explanation of why Houston was not evacuated. - Harvey did not track in the direction of Houston, - Allison (2001) had given them experience with exactly this sort of rain event, - not mentioned here but Rita (2005) missed altogether and the attempted evacuation caused deaths because millions of people stuck on the roads. Thus, a body of logic and experience suggested staying put for Houston. It's just that this was incomprehensibly worse. Plus, while meteorologists are right a tremendously high percentage of the time, sometimes, like with Rita, they are not. So if the only reference they could give officials was "like Allison, but worse", it's unlikely most people would understand what that could mean, and even the weather folk saying they knew it all along are being a bit se...