Port of Spain, Nov 14, 2004 (Trinidad Express) - A Penal landmark is gone, cattle drowned and families marooned.
HELP flood-hit PENAL - MEMBER of Parliament for Siparia Kamla Persad-Bissessar has written to Prime Minister Patrick Manning and other ministers asking for help for her constituents in Penal who were hit by severe flooding last week.
Our Venerable Prime Minister, Mr Patrick Manning, toured the flood hit Penal area today. He surmised that part of the problem was global warming. This was on tonight's 7:00 pm news on 100.1 FM.
*&#$*Q%#$% !!!!!
For the record about global warming while I try to breathe...
"We will not know the validity of global warming theories (and predictions) until it actually happens. Some predictions can be tested over historical periods in order to decide which theoretical models most closely resemble the behavior of earth's climate, and so some models may be better than others (i.e. more valid for known data). but no one can predict the future yet. I am skeptical about the idea that earth is a self-equilibrating system (i.e. that it tries to "get back into balance" when it is somehow disturbed). I think it is a very open and chaotic system and that the climate has been fluctuating pretty wildly and unpredictably ever since the planet acquired an atmosphere". From a scientist.
This site argues for and against the theories. Check it out.
I hope our Prime Geologist Minister's speech writer was ill and not cleaning his house in Penal from the aftermath of flooding. Since the PM's area of expertise is geology and maybe politicks.
What about Barrackpore? That village has been flooding since the 1980's and that's as far back as I can personally remember. Barrackpore Secondary school still closes its doors when rain falls and villagers pull out their nets for fishing. In the street... Entire ponds of cascadura are lost.
What about South Quay and Brian Lara Promenade? Not to mention the flooding on the down streets of Port of Spain when there is fifteen minutes of rain from over the hills. Let's not forget Kelly Village, Caroni and Chaguanas. This editorial dated May 2003 summmarizes the situation nicely, without cussing. All the areas listed were flooded this year and it costs the victims money. Remember, global warming doesn't occur in Westmoorings or Fairways, Maraval.
Maybe our Prime Minister knows what he is talking about and Global Warming selectively chooses these areas all the time, when rain falls, for the past twenty years. The information in the previous link only goes back to 1981.
It has absoutively nothing to do with storm drains, proper drainage for rural areas and general proper city management. It's not even about acting on the flood reports of people living and paying taxes in these areas for over twenty years.
Trinidad dollars have gone to Grenada and St Vincent and the Grenadines. Let's see how much is allocated for global warming.
HELP flood-hit PENAL - MEMBER of Parliament for Siparia Kamla Persad-Bissessar has written to Prime Minister Patrick Manning and other ministers asking for help for her constituents in Penal who were hit by severe flooding last week.
Our Venerable Prime Minister, Mr Patrick Manning, toured the flood hit Penal area today. He surmised that part of the problem was global warming. This was on tonight's 7:00 pm news on 100.1 FM.
*&#$*Q%#$% !!!!!
For the record about global warming while I try to breathe...
"We will not know the validity of global warming theories (and predictions) until it actually happens. Some predictions can be tested over historical periods in order to decide which theoretical models most closely resemble the behavior of earth's climate, and so some models may be better than others (i.e. more valid for known data). but no one can predict the future yet. I am skeptical about the idea that earth is a self-equilibrating system (i.e. that it tries to "get back into balance" when it is somehow disturbed). I think it is a very open and chaotic system and that the climate has been fluctuating pretty wildly and unpredictably ever since the planet acquired an atmosphere". From a scientist.
This site argues for and against the theories. Check it out.
I hope our Prime Geologist Minister's speech writer was ill and not cleaning his house in Penal from the aftermath of flooding. Since the PM's area of expertise is geology and maybe politicks.
What about Barrackpore? That village has been flooding since the 1980's and that's as far back as I can personally remember. Barrackpore Secondary school still closes its doors when rain falls and villagers pull out their nets for fishing. In the street... Entire ponds of cascadura are lost.
What about South Quay and Brian Lara Promenade? Not to mention the flooding on the down streets of Port of Spain when there is fifteen minutes of rain from over the hills. Let's not forget Kelly Village, Caroni and Chaguanas. This editorial dated May 2003 summmarizes the situation nicely, without cussing. All the areas listed were flooded this year and it costs the victims money. Remember, global warming doesn't occur in Westmoorings or Fairways, Maraval.
Maybe our Prime Minister knows what he is talking about and Global Warming selectively chooses these areas all the time, when rain falls, for the past twenty years. The information in the previous link only goes back to 1981.
It has absoutively nothing to do with storm drains, proper drainage for rural areas and general proper city management. It's not even about acting on the flood reports of people living and paying taxes in these areas for over twenty years.
Trinidad dollars have gone to Grenada and St Vincent and the Grenadines. Let's see how much is allocated for global warming.
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