Floods & EPIC Heat Spark Kansas City Climate Change Questions

Partisan viewpoints are free to argue about "the science" but cannot dispute the impact of weather on Kansas City this week. 

Accordingly . . .

EXTREME FLOODING & HEAT OVER THE COURSE OF HOURS INSPIRE LOCAL JOURNALISTS TO QUESTION CLIMATE CHANGE PLANNING IN KANSAS CITY!!! 

In a recent appearance, KCUR newsie Brian Ellison posed this challenge to elected officials and municipal planners . . . 

"Flooding that happened, on Thursday morning, seemingly relatively unexpected.

"Folks thought there would be some rain, but but the flood warnings came pretty quickly and without a lot of notice.

"We see this more and more.

"We obviously saw a much more tragic flooding in Texas, but one has to wonder if emergency management and local public safety agencies are going to have to sit down and say, this is happening a lot.

"This is going to happen more often with climate change.

"What are we doing to ensure that there won't need to be, as there were this week, dozens of water rescues?"

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com links . . .

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