"You mean like Democrats?"
Posted on 10/02/2024 7:32:17 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
President Biden called on Americans Wednesday to “put politics aside” to focus on Hurricane Helene recovery efforts — moments before stepping on his own message by saying that anyone who doubts climate change’s role in the disaster “must be brain dead.”
“In a moment like this, we put politics aside, at least we should put it all aside, and we have here,” the retiring 81-year-old president said during a recovery briefing in Raleigh, NC.
“There are no Democrats or Republicans, there are only Americans, and our job is to help as many people as we can, as quickly as we can, and as thoroughly as we can.”
The consoler-in-chief, seated next to the Tar Heel State’s Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, and emergency officials after an aerial tour of the Asheville area, pivoted moments later to an attack on the mostly Republican skeptics about the role of fossil fuel use in severe weather.
“Nobody can deny the impact of [the] climate crisis anymore — at least I hope they don’t. They must be brain dead if they do,” Biden jabbed.
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Climate Change happens, CO2 has nothing to do with it. The only dangerous gas is the flatuance coming out of FJB’s mouth.
Gaslighting *is* political, you ignorant corrupt lifelong-lying plagiarizing grifting jackass.
My answer to that. Maybe. Even if that's the case, we shouldn't do anything about it. There's a lot we do not know, that's for sure.
JD made a great point last night. We should be producing more stuff in America. Because we are using cleaner energy (compared to China).
Oh, Mr Memory Care is an astrophysicist and weather expert now.
Anthropomorphic climate change is nothing but watermelon politics. Green on the outside, commie pink on the inside.
Yup a hurricane came up hurricane alley during hurricane season because brain dead. I mean climate change. Gotcha.
As soon as the left globalist can explain our multiple ice ages and warming periods between before man walked the earth and “evil oil” was used I will listen to them. Actually it was celestial mechanics and incident sunlight to the earth. There is not a damn thing we can do about it and it has nothing to due with man.
Over the last 20,000 years we have had several hundred feet of sea level rise. It may rise more or even stop and plunge us back into a new ice age. I do not know. The scientists do not know. Those that say they know are either idiots or liars.
Geologic history shows when an ice age ends we have a rapid rate of increase in sea level for about 20 thousand years and then a very slow increase and then a new ice age. Today we are in the very slow increase phase that can end today or a few thousand years from now after very very slow increases in sea level and a brutal ice age will follow.
With warmth life flourishes. Cold kills as the geologic records will confirm 100% Perhaps London and New York will be underwater in a thousand years or so or perhaps not. We do not know. Perhaps a new ice age is beginning and Manhattan will be part of Long Island again. We do not know. Oddly if the sea levels do keep rising we will slowly retreat from the sea with no adverse effects. The Dogger Banks in the middle of the North Sea were once a group of low lying islands and inhabited. Today it is a prime fishing ground about 100 feet deep in the North Sea. The sea rose slowly and they retreated to continental Europe and the British Isles over hundreds of years. It is so damn slow that our great cities on the coast will be long gone due to centuries if not thousands of years. It is irrelevant.
But our governments and masters want to disrupt and kill energy production from hydrocarbons not for the environment but but for control. Control energy and you have total control. At the same time they will not utilize nuclear energy. Why?
My first thought also.
“Hey Joe, isn’t that a Pot/Kettle statement?”
Asheville Floods 1916
In July 1916, a devastating flood struck Asheville, North Carolina, causing widespread destruction and loss of life. The flood was triggered by a rare combination of two back-to-back hurricanes that brought heavy rainfall to the region, with totals exceeding 26 inches in Western North Carolina.
Devastation
The floodwaters surged across low-lying areas, sweeping away homes, businesses, and infrastructure. The French Broad River, which runs through Asheville, overflowed its banks, inundating the city and surrounding areas. The disaster was exacerbated by the region’s mountainous terrain, which funneled the water into valleys and exacerbated the flooding.
Casualties and Damage
The flood claimed dozens of lives, with estimates ranging from 80 to over 100 fatalities. The damage was immense, with reports of:
Entire neighborhoods destroyed
Railroad lines and bridges washed out
The city’s main train station, Southern Railway Station, severely damaged
The Glen Rock Hotel, a prominent landmark, surrounded by floodwaters
Homes and businesses lost, including those in the thriving Black business district on Southside Avenue
Comparison to Hurricane Helene (2024)
In recent news, Hurricane Helene has been compared to the 1916 flood due to its forecasted catastrophic flooding in the Asheville area. While the two events share similarities, the 1916 flood was a singular, unprecedented event caused by a rare combination of hurricanes. Hurricane Helene’s impact will be assessed as the situation unfolds.
Legacy
The 1916 Asheville flood remains one of the most significant natural disasters in Western North Carolina’s recorded history. It serves as a reminder of the region’s vulnerability to extreme weather events and the importance of preparedness and resilience in the face of disaster.
Yes, because this is the first recorded hurrican on record in what has been a slower than usuall hurricane season.
Apparently, it happens every 100 years. So they need to build levees to contain the floods. Maybe the Army of Engineers can build that on French Broad River.
Upper reaches of the mountains got 30in of rain.
Ground was already saturated. Top soil will break loose.
It goes to Asheville and on to TN.
The divide sent quite a flow to SC as well.
Yes but the rich people live up on the highland while the slave quarters are in the flood zone. Same now as a hundred years ago but with the bonus of new slaves being brought in from the islands.
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Which French broad was the river named after?
Climate change IS politics, dumbass.
I guess not...
I guess Joe Bite Me never heard of Hurricane Camille in 1969.
Was there climate change back then?
The storm hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast as a Category 5 and when it broke up, it caused severe flooding in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, etc.
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