Posted on 08/31/2021 5:56:21 AM PDT by JV3MRC
JunkScience.com Founder Steve Milloy ripped an absurd Washington Post argument that Hurricane Ida — which caused power outages to more than a million homes — is a spawn of climate change.
The leftist Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper capitalized on the catastrophic hurricane to push insane eco-extremist talking points: “How climate change helped make Hurricane Ida one of Louisiana’s worst.” The story’s first paragraph peddled straight-up fear porn: “From its birth, the storm was destined to become a monster.” It continued, calling the storm “the poster child for a climate change-driven disaster.” Milloy lambasted the propaganda in comments to MRC Business: “A non-record hurricane hitting the Gulf Coast in hurricane season is hardly a reason to claim that Ida is the ‘poster child’ of climate change.” Leave it to The Post to take a story of a natural disaster affecting millions and juice it with leftist political spin. In its latest eco-extremism, the newspaper bleated how “[c]limate change not only sets the stage for bigger, fiercer, faster storms, it also makes the deadliest aspect of hurricanes — a deluge of water — even more intense.”
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Well, it sure changed the climate around here!......................
Hurricanes are normal weather. The worst ever was possibly the Galveston hurricane of 1900. It maintained hurricane winds all the way to northern Ohio. 120 years ago. Ida was short and sweet by comparison.
I don’t understand why so many people in the Gulf area live in areas that flood and have homes that can’t stand the wind.
And I don't understand why midwesterners live in tornado alley and Californians live in earthquake and mud slide prone areas and west coasters live in drought and fire prone areas and east coasters live in nor'easter prone areas. This is fun but there's not much left of the country like this.
I live close to the coast and have been through about 40 years of hurricanes. You leave when it looks bad and hope for the best. Harvey is the only one that did me any real damage but then it did a number on a lot of folks.
When the hurricane hit New Orleans over 15t years ago, it also hit Florida, and a nitwit lib I worked with stated that they had it coming because they'd voted for GWB. I haven't seen her in years, but it's unlikely that "Supersize Me"/NPR/DNC stooge has improved with age.
Everything is climate change or covid. They have zero credibility.
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