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Re:Houston is experiencing its third ‘500-year’ flood in 3 y... by autokad on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @04:29PM (#15127355)
more likely their model is wrong. it reminds me of fukushima: https://ml.berkeley.edu/blog/2017/07/13/tutorial-4/
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Re:Houston is experiencing its third ‘500-year’ flood in 3 y... by enraged_camel on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @05:50PM (#15127904)
Their model is wrong, but it's because it assumes climate is stationary. Climatologists are actively debating what the models should look like when global warming is taken into account:

https://i.imgur.com/HLxUBim.png

edit: not sure why I'm being downvoted. I can only assume the downvotes are political in nature, which is a shame.

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Re:Houston is experiencing its third ‘500-year’ flood in 3 y... by tedunangst on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @06:14PM (#15128080)
That's not such a great reference...
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Re:Houston is experiencing its third ‘500-year’ flood in 3 y... by sdenton4 on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @09:09PM (#15128952)
A screen cap of a discussion forum is a poor reference indeed...
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