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'We All Owe Al Gore An Apology': More People See Climate Change In Record Flooding
npr.org ^ | June 8, 2019 | NATHAN ROTT

Posted on 06/08/2019 5:53:03 PM PDT by PROCON

Angel Portillo doesn't think about climate change much. It's not that he doesn't care. He's just got other things to worry about. Climate change seems so far away, so big.

Lately though, Portillo says he's been thinking about it more often.

Standing on the banks of a swollen and surging Arkansas River, just upriver from a cluster of flooded businesses and homes, it's easy to see why.

"Stuff like this," he says, nodding at the frothy brown waters, "all of the tornadoes that have been happening - it just doesn't seem like a coincidence, you know?"

A string of natural disasters has hit the central U.S. in recent weeks. Tornadoes have devastated communities, tearing up trees and homes. Record rainfall has prevented countless farmers in America's breadbasket from planting crops. Rising rivers continue to flood fields, inundate homes and threaten aging levees from Iowa to Mississippi.

And while none of these events can be directly attributed to climate change, extreme rains are happening more frequently in many parts of the U.S. and that trend is expected to continue as the Earth continues to warm.

For many of the people living in the affected areas, the connection feels clear.

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TOPICS: Religion; Society; Weather
KEYWORDS: algore; bs; defundnpr; defundpbs; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; fakescience; flooding; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; mediawingofthednc; nathanrott; npr; partisanmediashills; pbs; presstitutes; smearmachine
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

“this was the only one I can find that was still able to make money after it was exposed.”

That’s because it is a globalist, world government insured program. The socialists need this trash science to grind the world economy to a halt.

Rich liberals seem to be exempt from doing damage to the planet of course. The rest of us are supposed to eat our peas and suffer while they take over control of the world.


61 posted on 06/08/2019 8:09:53 PM PDT by edh
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To: upchuck

Did I fire or something?


62 posted on 06/08/2019 8:10:51 PM PDT by LibertyWoman
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To: PROCON

And there were almost no tornado the previous few years. And we were told water would be scarce because of bobo warming. But why let facts cloud their world where unicorns poop skittles and not piles of carbon debits.


63 posted on 06/08/2019 8:13:59 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: LibertyWoman; upchuck
Did I fire or something?

LOL, don't let him give you any crap, hold your ground here.

You'll find that any variation of 'established' gun safety rules will get you a comment like Chucks.

So, did you fire, and if so, who were you aiming at? 😄

64 posted on 06/08/2019 8:19:59 PM PDT by PROCON ('Progressive' is a Euphemism for <strike>Totalitarian</strike> COMMUNIST)
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To: PROCON
The lack of severe thunderstorms was the big story line for the month. Typically the peak of our severe weather season begins in April. However, that wasn’t the case this year. Our office only issued 2 severe thunderstorm warnings the entire month. For comparison, we had never issued fewer than 10 in any April since 1995, which was the year our office spun up.

https://www.weather.gov/pah/April2019ClimateSummary

65 posted on 06/08/2019 8:23:41 PM PDT by Paul R. (The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left worth controlling.)
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To: PROCON
"Efforts to connect extreme events with climate change may do more to rally those with liberal beliefs than convince those with more conservative views that humans are having an impact on the climate," said the study's lead author, Dr. Ben Lyons, in a press statement.

No kidding?

In ancient times natural disasters would be said to be the gods punishing wicked men.

Today they say that natural disasters are the fault of wicked men burning carbon.

If I was forced to choose my mythology, I would cast my vote with the ancient beliefs before the more modern.

66 posted on 06/08/2019 8:24:01 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Yep, it’s cyclical.


67 posted on 06/08/2019 8:26:00 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: PROCON

All people working at and those watching them MUST have misshapen heads. What absolute nitwits. They should be arrested and forced to return taxpayers’ money.


68 posted on 06/08/2019 8:31:47 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: PROCON

Coincidence? Connection? No. Someone explain the bell curve and natural stochastic phenomenon. Now, charlatans will try to take advantage...


69 posted on 06/08/2019 8:35:40 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: PROCON

Yah, because floods like never happened before Al Gore learned out to make money off this. /rolls eyes


70 posted on 06/08/2019 8:51:36 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: PROCON

What Rott.


71 posted on 06/08/2019 8:52:42 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: PROCON

Yeah, there’s never been floods or tornadoes or a long cold winter which caused all the flooding and tornadoes.


72 posted on 06/08/2019 8:56:13 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: yarddog

We actually had water running in it most of the winter. Of course it disappeared as soon as the started the irrigation pumps


73 posted on 06/08/2019 9:07:35 PM PDT by askjeff
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To: PROCON

ITEM 7: Daily Caller reported, “The National Park Service quietly removed a visitor center sign saying the glaciers at Glacier National Park would disappear by 2020 due to climate change.

“As it turns out, higher-than-average snowfall in recent years upended computer model projections from the early 2000s that NPS based its claim glaciers “will all be gone by the year 2020,” federal officials said.”

The government lies to you, early and often. Even seemingly apolitical agencies are staffed with big, fat liars. (Donsurber.blogspot.com


74 posted on 06/08/2019 10:45:06 PM PDT by Persevero (Desmond is not -Amazing- Desmond is -Abused-)
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To: PROCON

NPR. Yeah. Okay. America’s Fake News Headquarters.


75 posted on 06/09/2019 3:47:06 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: PROCON

Blame it on California.....When they were suffering thru a drought, they prayed for rain. They should have been more specific on how much they wanted.


76 posted on 06/09/2019 3:53:50 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: Hot Tabasco

***Blame it on California.....When they were suffering thru a drought, they prayed for rain.***

Much like the Children of Israel who demanded FLESH to eat, so God sent them quails till they choked on them.


77 posted on 06/09/2019 7:24:20 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Three days in FB prison for this...'What was "IT"? A DNA XX or a DNA XY?')
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks PROCON.

78 posted on 06/09/2019 12:53:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: PROCON

More People See Climate Change in Record Flooding

“Same kind of folks who see Jesus’ face on their toast.


79 posted on 06/09/2019 3:52:59 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist.I'm white.Does that mean I'm racist?)
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