"who knows what the reason is, but something is changing" to create "massive storm surge."

[jcgoldie]

Rick Scott says no-one knows the reason.

Hey you lying asshole we know the fucking reason!

[Lovie777]

1. Idiot...........................

[jaxexpat]

3. One could say, " lying idiot", but it's possible..........

he's really just that stupid.

[NCDem47]

27. If only science could get to the bottom of this!

[Wounded Bear]

2. Willful ignorance is a powerful thing...

very hard to overcome.

[CareerGuyMA]

16. Willful ignorance

There is no “willful“ ignorance. If it’s willful, it’s not ignorant. It’s COMPLICIT

[KS Toronado]

20. Spot on and welcome to DU!

[markodochartaigh]

17. It is

difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair

[NBachers]

4. Yet somehow, he keeps getting elected over and over again.

[Martin68]

26. He says what the people want to hear.

[House of Roberts]

5. Hey Rick,

maybe it's because there's TOO MUCH FUCKING WATER!

[malaise]

6. I'll take warmer, oceans and seas for everythung

jackass Scott

[paleotn]

7. I lived in Western North Carolina years ago.

I know the area well. Small mountain towns between Asheville and Boone, east towards Morganton and Hickory. West into Tennessee. My better half has reached out to some of our old friends still in the area but contact is spotty at best. Power is out, cell service is out. They were flooding before Helene even moved north simply due to the size of the storm and the stalled front across the southeast. And then it got worse. Biblically worse. Doppler radar estimates up to 4 FEET of rain fell on the peaks of the mountains in places around Western NC. 4 FEET!

Towns like Spruce Pine are cut off and will remain so for...who the hell knows how long? Bakersville, the Mitchell county seat, was completely flooded. Mitchel and Avery counties are nearly inaccessible. Mountain roads are gone. Just...gone. Let that sink in. Whole roads gone. Whole modern, concrete bridges, some of them quite large, are gone. Montreat and Swannanoa are gone. Floods and landslides. Whole neighborhoods gone. No one knows what the death toll may be.

Parts of Unicoi County across the border in TN were evacuated. Limestone Cove for one. I know it well. Erwin, the county seat is flooded out. Patients and staff were evaced by Nat Guard helo from the roof of the local hospital, the water rose so quickly. A small hotel and restaurant I use to frequent right on the crest of the Blue Ridge outside of Spruce Pine, NC, is gone. Just gone. Slid down the mountain. Hwy 226 up the Blue Ridge is gone in places. East bound lanes of I40 through the Pigeon River gorge, TN to NC, are just gone. Bridges across the Nolichucky River in TN are gone. Massive, modern, concrete bridges, 50 ft. over the river and 30 yards long...are gone. Hot Springs, NC completely flooded. Nolichucky Dam towards Greeneville, TN is holding but was feared it would fail. Lake Lure dam in NC was overtopped and failure was predicted, but it held. Thank your personal deity for small miracles.

I haven't lived there in years and years and can't wrap my head around the scale of the destruction. It just doesn't register that this can actually be real. Particularly a place I know so intimately. It's biblical. That's the only words I have to describe it. This isn't a 100 year storm or even a 500 year storm. This is so off the fucking charts. Places that have never flooded in human memory are destroyed and washed away. Sad, sad day in the paleotn household. I'm just in shock.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

11. This level of destruction is why some hurricanes are remembered a century later

This will be one of them

[ashredux]

12. It will be remembered for one of the "first ones"....

[Permanut]

8. Check with Bill O'Reilly..

Maybe the two of you can figure it out.

[jalan48]

9. Like gun violence, now is not the time to talk about the reason for the problem.

The media dutifully bows it's head, and in hushed tones talks about the destruction and suffering caused by the hurricane. Any discussion of climate change is inappropriate in this moment of sorrow.

[oasis]

10. Pretending ignorance.

[Biophilic]

13. You have to remember that Florida eliminated the words Climate Change and even the concept from it's government.

As far as Florida is concerned officially there is no concept of climate change. It doesn't exist. Yea, right.

[twodogsbarking]

14. They have eliminated insurance as well, effectively.

[bagimin]

18. Then why am I payin 6 grand a year

????

[dchill]

24. Because the insurance lobby owns the politicians...

...who write the laws that say you have to have insurance to buy or "own."

[ProfessorGAC]

15. I Doubt That

I completely believe HE doesn't know why.
The lie is the "no-one". Billions of other people know why.
He's the outlier. Mostly because he's an idiot. How'd that moron get through law school?

[DENVERPOPS]

19. Classical Propaganda by Republicans

so they can continue to ruin the environment for their profiteering...

[Farmer-Rick]

21. And to think, people could have

Done something to prevent this storm from being so massive, and they didn't.

[Martin68]

25. The sad truth is that if we totally stopped using hydrocarbons right now the carbon dioxide level is already high enough

to cause storms like these. There is a long lag time between human behavior change and an actual effect on the atmosphere. Meanwhile, the C02 level continues to go up, the storms will get worse, and sea level will continue to rise. We're still doing more talking about it than actually doing something about it. Sooner or later people will have to stop living in buildings near the ocean or within the flood plains of streams and rivers.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

30. The weather in 2024 will be fondly remembered in 2040.

Mama nature will be really pissed by then.

[BrianTheEVGuy]

22. Ya know...

… I hear that if you ignore and deny a problem with all of your might, for a very long time, the problem solves itself and disappears!

This important concept is taught to everyone in DeSantis’s “public education system.”

[Martin68]

23. Rick Scott had a law passed to prohibit the use of the term "climate change" by Florida State employees.

Scumbag. The upside is that a lot of Floridians will start to see through the bullshit after the disastrous storms and the governor's admission that "something is changing." Huh. Maybe there really is something to that climate change stuff...

[Arger68]

28. We'll know when Republicans

Start believing in climate change when they start complaining that "liberals never warned us this was happening", or something like that

[bullimiami]

29. Who? Pretty much everyone. Dumbass crook.

[BamaRefugee]

31. I don't wanna hear GA, FL, NC, TN begging for government help. BOOTSTRAPS all you goat ropers!

And I'm a Southern Boy, but I said what I said.
I'm sick of Democrats being the battered wife of politics.