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Miami’s mayor on Hurricane Irma: ‘If this isn’t climate change, I don’t know what is’
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Posted on 09/09/2017 10:10:00 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Miami’s mayor on Hurricane Irma: ‘If this isn’t climate change, I don’t know what is’

By David Smiley

September 08, 2017 4:21 PM

Miami’s Republican mayor called on President Donald Trump and the head of the Environmental Protection Agency Friday to acknowledge that climate change is playing a role in the extreme weather that has slammed his city and the continental U.S. this summer.

Speaking from Miami’s Emergency Operations Center in downtown, where the city’s senior public safety and political authorities will ride out Category 4 Hurricane Irma this weekend, Mayor Tomás Regalado told the Miami Herald that he believes warming and rising seas are threatening South Florida’s immediate and long-term future.

“This is the time to talk about climate change. This is the time that the president and the EPA and whoever makes decisions needs to talk about climate change,” said Regalado, who flew back to Miami from Argentina Friday morning to be in the city during the storm. “If this isn’t climate change, I don’t know what is. This is a truly, truly poster child for what is to come.”

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To: aomagrat; Sub-Driver; MinuteGal

Andrew ???


81 posted on 09/09/2017 10:50:01 AM PDT by danamco
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To: Sub-Driver

“If this isn’t climate change, I don’t know what is’”

Exactly.


82 posted on 09/09/2017 10:50:57 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (CNN IS ISIS.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Yea the climate is about to change.
what is your point?


83 posted on 09/09/2017 10:51:34 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: Sub-Driver
"Don't hurricanes occur during hurricane season or am I wrong?"

"Yes, you are WRONG!! There never was a 'hurricane season' until capitalists came along with their F-ing factories and automobiles!!"

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84 posted on 09/09/2017 10:52:42 AM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: Sub-Driver
climate change

Climate change?

Oh, you mean WEATHER?????? You stupid moron.

85 posted on 09/09/2017 10:53:05 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Sub-Driver

1930s hurricanes in Florida made these look like pikers.

Explain Brain.


86 posted on 09/09/2017 10:53:47 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. .)
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To: Sub-Driver; MinuteGal

If HE is not an idiot, I don’t was is !!!


87 posted on 09/09/2017 10:53:51 AM PDT by danamco
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To: Sub-Driver

Hey mayor! It’s the sun stupid!!


88 posted on 09/09/2017 10:54:09 AM PDT by DarthVader ("These lying tyrants are about to get hit with a tsunami of destruction on their evil reign." Gaffer)
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To: Sub-Driver

If 12 years without a hurricane isn’t climate change, I don’t know what is!


89 posted on 09/09/2017 10:55:18 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: God luvs America; Sub-Driver; MinuteGal

Very simple answer: FOLLOW THE MONEY !!!


90 posted on 09/09/2017 10:55:38 AM PDT by danamco
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To: abclily

You got it!!


91 posted on 09/09/2017 10:56:40 AM PDT by DarthVader ("These lying tyrants are about to get hit with a tsunami of destruction on their evil reign." Gaffer)
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To: Sub-Driver

Stupid like that SHOULD hurt. Was the 1935 hurricane climate change, the Galveston storm, how about the unnamed ‘September storms’ that decimated the coasts before anyone kept records? Pre electricity what caused them-the use of FIRE? Maybe it isn’t too smart to build cities looking at oceans? This kind of thinking in political power-and in the NWS-is why I think weather today is less about science and more about politics and other agendas.


92 posted on 09/09/2017 10:56:42 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Yes, because huge hurricanes have never existed until the modern days. /sarcasm


93 posted on 09/09/2017 11:00:24 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Sub-Driver
Miami’s mayor on Hurricane Irma: ‘If this isn’t climate change, I don’t know what is’

Mr. Mayor, you don't know what is. You're a politician, and you probably didn't even bother taking high school physics.
94 posted on 09/09/2017 11:01:15 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Sub-Driver

The mayor is a moron.


95 posted on 09/09/2017 11:01:49 AM PDT by theoilpainter
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To: Sub-Driver

At least the Mayor admitted he doesn’t know what climate change is.


96 posted on 09/09/2017 11:02:49 AM PDT by freedom1st
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To: 2banana
America has not had a hurricane in 12 years.

Well, Ovomit was pResident for 8 of those years and he is solely responsible for making sure it didn't happen.

97 posted on 09/09/2017 11:03:18 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Sub-Driver

Conservatism needs serious political inroads to happen, asap, within as many cities as is possible, if conservatism is to succeed in defeating leftist politics!


98 posted on 09/09/2017 11:03:21 AM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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To: Sub-Driver

If only the US had written great big checks to the UN, none of this would be happening.


99 posted on 09/09/2017 11:04:50 AM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: Sub-Driver

Will he blame climate change when the weather turns nice again?


100 posted on 09/09/2017 11:09:56 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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