Re: Never Let A Devastating Natural Disaster Go To Waste

[climate parasites]

In article <snuem0$r12$1...@news.dns-netz.com>
Nadegda <nad31...@gmail.invalid> wrote:
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> Start beating the shit out of the global warming liars. Make it hurt!
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Hurricanes have always been with us, and they always will be. No
amount of scaremongering can change that reality.

Be prepared for Democrats to exploit the devastation of
Hurricane Ian to peddle de-modernization. And because there is
no conclusive way for anyone to prove that global warming isn’t
triggering every natural disaster — and because nature offers a
continuous flow of these terrifying events and always will — the
exploitation will never stop.

The effort began in earnest after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, a
Category 3 hurricane that devastated an unprepared New Orleans.
Just watch Al Gore, with his grade-school “science” charts,
cartoonish satellite images (water, the color of fire!), and
didactic tone, emotionally manipulating audiences with images of
destruction and suffering. The problem was that “An Inconvenient
Truth” suggested — among numerous other dire predictions that
would never come to pass — that climate change had not only
caused Katrina, despite negligible warming, but that it
portended the dawn of an age of shocking and intense hurricanes.

After 2005, Florida didn’t get hit with another hurricane until
2016 and Louisiana didn’t see a major one until 2020 (also the
fault of climate change.) It is debatable that storms that do
make landfall do so with more intensity or that Category 3-plus
hurricanes are increasing. Overall, the frequency of hurricanes
has slightly declined since 1900. From 1851-1860, 19 hurricanes
made landfall in the United States. From 2011-2020, 19
hurricanes made landfall in the United States. The average per
decade between 1860-2011 is about 18. In the decade of 1941-
1950, 10 major hurricanes hit the United States.

“Hurricane Ian gets nasty quickly, turbocharged by warm water,”
explains the Associated Press, which has been true since the
first hurricane formed. More “climate havoc,” says The New York
Times, as Ian threatens to hit the same exact places that storms
have always hit. Today’s media simply can’t report on any flood
or tornado or hurricane or brain-eating amoeba without making it
about their favorite policy hobby horse. It just feels like
things are worse, you know?

“What effect does climate change have on this phenomenon?” CNN’s
Don Lemon asks Jamie Rhome, the acting director of NOAA’s
National Hurricane Center about Hurricane Ian. “Because it seems
these storms are intensifying.”

“I don’t think you can link climate change to any one event. On
the whole, on the cumulative, climate change may be making
storms worse. But to link it to any one event, I would caution
against it,” answers Rhome.

“Ok, listen, I grew up there. And these storms are
intensifying,” responds Lemon.

He grew up there.

Joy Behar, cohost of “The View,” noted Wednesday that Florida
Gov. Ron DeSantis says he is “not in the pews of the church of
the Global Warming Leftists.” “This is what he thinks about
climate change. And now, his state is getting hit with one of
the worst hurricanes that we will ever see!” This a quite common
attack, but it’s a non sequitur. Even if we accepted every
alarmist forecast about anthropogenic global warming, and
embraced the Democrats’ net-zero plan and banned gas-powered
engines and fossil fuels by 2050 or 2030 or even 2024, the
temperature wouldn’t be any different today. Forget India and
China, not a single major economy that signed onto the Paris
Accord has met its goals.

Of course, the underlying claim is also untrue. Since Behar’s
birth in 1942, Florida has seen 48 hurricanes make landfall.
Three of them have been Category 5 (so worse), nine of them have
been Category 4 (including Ian), and 11 of them Category 3.
Granted, Behar was not around for 1900’s Great Galveston
hurricane, which hit eight years before Model Ts began emitting
carbon into the air; it likely killed somewhere around 10,000
people in Texas. The 1926 Great Miami hurricane killed 372,
causing an estimated, inflation-adjusted $164 billion in damage.
Only around 150,000 people lived in all of Dade County back in
those days. The Great Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 was tied with
2019’s Hurricane Dorian for strongest maximum sustained landfall
winds (185 mph). Those were pretty bad storms, as were many
others.

Critics will, no doubt, point out the rising cost of insurance
payments due to hurricanes and other natural disasters. This is
largely due to the concentration of people and wealth in coastal
regions, a consequence of both rising population and wealth, and
federal insurance programs that incentivize people to take on
this risk. Critics will also point out that hurricanes are far
less deadly now than they have been in the past because we’ve
instituted warning systems and improved infrastructure and
preparedness. And that’s right. Acclimatizing to the realities
of climate is far cheaper and more effective than any state-
compelled dismantling of modernity. No amount of scaremongering
can change that reality.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/28/never-let-a-devastating-
natural-disaster-go-to-waste/