Posted on 05/28/2015 12:44:18 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
The combination of stronger storms and rising seas from a warming planet have the potential to wreak havoc on America's coastlines, President Obama said Thursday during his visit to the National Hurricane Center in Florida.
Obama received the annual briefing on hurricane preparedness from federal science agencies ahead of hurricane season, and stressed the importance of preparing the country's infrastructure for the impacts of climate change.
"The best climate scientists in the world are telling us that extreme weather events like hurricanes are likely to become more powerful," Obama said. "When you combine stronger storms with rising seas, that's a recipe for more devastating floods."
"Climate change didn't cause Hurricane Sandy, but it might have made it stronger," he added, pointing to the 2012 storm that caused more than $68 billion in damage and was tied to 233 deaths on the East Coast.
After the briefing, Obama took to his @POTUS Twitter account to field questions from the public about climate change. In response to a question about dealing with climate change deniers in Congress, Obama said the public should put pressure on them to act. . .
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They (enviro-whackos) have said that every year since the warmup debacle began. One of these years the law of averages says they’ll appear to be right.
I was about to take off my life preserver when Obama announced that they are really, really, really, REALLY coming now!
Globull Warming is gonna getcha.
Ha ha! Good one.
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