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The Climate Change Thread
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Sardines
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Saw this one the other day, Traughedeigh pronounced tragedy, as a ****ing name. I mean it was just some **** I saw on the internet so I can hope that maybe it's not real.
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Awful news out of Texas. I can’t imagine what those poor parents are dealing with right now. You spend years staying up late to feed, soothe, and care for a child. And then see it all wiped away in a blink of an eye. I hope the leaders in Texas use this to invest in better warning systems. Sounds like this was discussed previously but the state decided it was too expensive. So hopefully some good can come from this tragedy so families don’t have to go through this again. But if Uvalde is any indication, the leadership will just wait a week or two for this to pass and then carry on with business as usual; trolling liberals while enriching their friends and families.
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Why is everything fake? Is this what happens when your entire movement is based on an alternative reality?
Vaccines don’t work
Trump doesn’t suck and he won in 2020
Sandy Hook didn’t happen
Hurricanes, floods, climate change all are fake
Like… this would make George orwell’s head spin
Red
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Imagine both her and MTG in Congress as representatives from Georgia.
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The Texas floods are the type of extreme weather event predicted to increase in frequency due to continued global warming. So, the Trump administration, being as destructive to our institutions as they are, are working to make Americans less prepared for such events….
Kerr County, Texas, wasn’t prepared for the deluge that killed more than 100 people this weekend, despite more than a century and a half of flash flooding along the Guadalupe River.
Other communities around the country may find themselves just as exposed for the next catastrophe, emergency managers and scientists warned — pointing to the soaring toll of climate change and the Trump administration’s steep cuts to weather and disaster spending.
Those cuts may not have played a direct role in the death toll from the central Texas floods, a point the White House argued strenuously Monday while maintaining that “the National Weather Service did its job” in predicting the rising waters. Meteorologists and climate scientists also praised NWS for its accurate, timely forecasts.
But the weather service and its parent organization are reeling from mass layoffs and early retirements pushed by President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, and the sprawling tax bill that he signed last weekcanceled more than $200 million in spending that was supposed to improve weather forecasting and make communities more resilient to disasters.
Federal grants to help communities afford flood warning systems are also drying up after the Trump administration halted two main programs that once funded such work. And the White House acknowledged Monday that it’s still weighing the fate of the nation’s premier disaster responder, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, more than five months after Trump said that “I think we’re going to recommend that FEMA go away.”
Even without final answers about the cause of the Texas death toll, one longtime emergency manager said one fact is clear: “That many people did not need to die,” said Michael Coen, who served as FEMA’s chief of staff during the Biden and Obama administrations. He said Kerr County should have invested in better flood defenses or, at the very least, relocated camping cabins away from the river.
The gutting of the national infrastructure around weather emergencies comes at the same time that climate change is making severe disasters more common and more dangerous, according to studies and past warnings from the U.S. government – including during the first Trump administration.
“The frequency and the severity associated with these types of events all across the country have been substantiated over and over again,” said David Maurstad, who ran FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program before leaving the agency last year. “I don’t know how anybody can ignore that”.
Kerr County, Texas, wasn’t prepared for the deluge that killed more than 100 people this weekend, despite more than a century and a half of flash flooding along the Guadalupe River.
Other communities around the country may find themselves just as exposed for the next catastrophe, emergency managers and scientists warned — pointing to the soaring toll of climate change and the Trump administration’s steep cuts to weather and disaster spending.
Those cuts may not have played a direct role in the death toll from the central Texas floods, a point the White House argued strenuously Monday while maintaining that “the National Weather Service did its job” in predicting the rising waters. Meteorologists and climate scientists also praised NWS for its accurate, timely forecasts.
But the weather service and its parent organization are reeling from mass layoffs and early retirements pushed by President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, and the sprawling tax bill that he signed last weekcanceled more than $200 million in spending that was supposed to improve weather forecasting and make communities more resilient to disasters.
Federal grants to help communities afford flood warning systems are also drying up after the Trump administration halted two main programs that once funded such work. And the White House acknowledged Monday that it’s still weighing the fate of the nation’s premier disaster responder, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, more than five months after Trump said that “I think we’re going to recommend that FEMA go away.”
Even without final answers about the cause of the Texas death toll, one longtime emergency manager said one fact is clear: “That many people did not need to die,” said Michael Coen, who served as FEMA’s chief of staff during the Biden and Obama administrations. He said Kerr County should have invested in better flood defenses or, at the very least, relocated camping cabins away from the river.
The gutting of the national infrastructure around weather emergencies comes at the same time that climate change is making severe disasters more common and more dangerous, according to studies and past warnings from the U.S. government – including during the first Trump administration.
“The frequency and the severity associated with these types of events all across the country have been substantiated over and over again,” said David Maurstad, who ran FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program before leaving the agency last year. “I don’t know how anybody can ignore that”.
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Lol. Must be someone I have on ignore.
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I mean if you are going to say that kind of trash then name names. Who is it that is controlling the weather? And don't just say "the left" or "the Democrats". Give me actual names. Tell me how and why they caused the flooding.
And, ya know, some evidence would be nice to go along with the accusations
Sardines
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Evidence?
Dear leader is disappointed in your loyalty. What more evidence do you need?
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Having dealt with the floods in Texas….
www.independent.co.uk
‘Ice Barbie’ Noem ripped for asking fans to choose a favorite horseback portrait
As the search and rescue efforts in Texas continue, the Homeland Security Secretary asked her Instagram audience to choose which portrait of her they like best
www.independent.co.uk
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It’s certainly no longer a surprise how conspiracism has become almost a default mode of thinking for many Americans…when facts and fantasies share equal billing, this is one result:
And now, last night’s flash floods in New Mexico:
I love this guy’s homespun speaking style, but he is into some off the wall ideas, the cloud seeding conspiracy being one….
And now, last night’s flash floods in New Mexico:
I love this guy’s homespun speaking style, but he is into some off the wall ideas, the cloud seeding conspiracy being one….
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