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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)Once again you continue to cherry pick facts in order to claim that hurricane Helen is normal and to downplay the threat that human caused climate change poses to our planet and to human survival. Hurricane Helene was not normal and it's the climate scientists who are saying so. It's pretty outrageous that you think you know more about climate change than the climate scientists. You don't and you never will. The issue of climate change is not just a coastline issue. Ashville, North Carolina is 500 miles inland and has suffered catastrophic hurricane damage in an area that's not in a flood zoon. You make no mention of this fact. You also fail to understand that bigger, stronger and more unpredictable hurricanes are just 1 symptom of human caused climate change. You're completely ignoring the longer and hotter heatwaves, rising sea levels, bigger, more frequent and hotter burning wildfires, tropical diseases now found in non tropical parts of the world such as both West Nile and Zika tropical diseases now being found in most U.S. states. FYI, Phoenix is currently experiencing its hottest summer ever with temperatures above 110 for 66 days. The normal number of days above 110 for Phoenix is 21. You also fail to note the numerous press reports that document that 1 million people have already moved inland from coastal areas because of the increasing hurricane damage. No doubt that the current catastrophic hurricane will cause more people to move farther inland. You also fail to note that last year, the U.S. suffered more than 20 catastrophic storms that did more than $1 billion in damage each. That's a dramatic increase in catastrophic storm damage. Insurance companies are pulling out of states with large amounts of both storm and wildfire damage because the losses are too large for them to financially cope with.
Your own words clearly show that you're not a climate scientist. You need to leave this to the climate scientists.