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In reply to the discussion: Florida might be fucked. These storms will get worse.. and then WORSE. And more frequent. [View all]GoreWon2000
(1,461 posts)Someone who has to look up information about hurricanes online will never know more than climate scientists who have years of schooling and decades of climate science work experience. The climate scientists are well aware that Florida has had hurricanes. What's happening now is that the hurricanes are larger in size and stronger. The latest hurricane to hit Florida is the first hurricane to hit Florida in the part of Florida that it hit since records started being kept in1810. This hurricane was 420 miles wide. This is not normal. This latest hurricane went in intensity from a tropical storm to a category 4 hurricane in less than 12 hours. This is not normal. The climate scientists understand that the above normal ocean temperatures are causing hurricanes to become bigger, stronger and more unpredictable. Our planet is warming abnormally because the greenhouse gases that are created when fossil fuel is burned are strangling our planet's respiratory system in the same way that the toxins created by cigarette smoking strangle a human being's respiratory system. My engineer/pilot father with more than 40 years of aviation and automotive engineering work experience along with flying hurricane reconnaissance well understood the threat of human caused climate change, how it's killing our planet and threatening the survival of humanity. It's time for you to understand these irrefutable facts as well instead of cherry picking information in order to downplay the very real threat that human survival is facing from human caused climate change. Bigger and stronger hurricanes is only part of what's happening. Our planet is telling us on a daily basis in many different ways that we can no longer burn fossil fuel.