Hurricane Florence is all Trump's Fault

[Sparko]

Yeah, now they are blaming the hurricane on Trump.

Another hurricane is about to batter our coast. Trump is complicit.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...adlines&wpmm=1

[One Bad Pig]

You're complicit too, denier!

[mossrose]

I've been waiting for 2 days for somebody to blame Trump for Florence.

Must be his fault that it's snowing here today, too.

[seer]

Yeah, now they are blaming the hurricane on Trump.

Another hurricane is about to batter our coast. Trump is complicit.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...adlines&wpmm=1

OK so they can't say that Climate change has anything to do with Florence, but Trump is somehow complicit because he has not jumped on the AGW bandwagon? How does that work?

[Sparko]

You're complicit too, denier!

Weather is not Climate

[oxmixmudd]

Yeah, now they are blaming the hurricane on Trump.

Another hurricane is about to batter our coast. Trump is complicit.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...adlines&wpmm=1

You all are completely missing the point. The article is not blaming Trump FOR Florence, it is blaming Trump for actively working to dismantle efforts to combat human induced climate change, which is believed will produce a statistically larger number of more powerful storms. So Trump is complicit in that his actions are making it more likely climate change will continue unabated, producing more storms like Florence.

Kind of a stupid way to make the point if you ask me, it fans the flame of anti-media hysteria which defines the typical Trump supporter. But the article's main thrust, that Trump is setting us back decades in terms of dealing with AGW is valid. In fact, Trump is setting us back decades on environmental policy in general, not just AGW.

Jim

[seer]

You all are completely missing the point. The article is not blaming Trump FOR Florence, it is blaming Trump for actively working to dismantle efforts to combat human induced climate change, which is believed will produce a statistically larger number of more powerful storms. So Trump is complicit in that his actions are making it more likely climate change will continue unabated, producing more storms like Florence.

Is that really going to happen though...

We know that hurricanes are powered by warm seas and over the past 100 years global average sea temperatures have risen by about 1C.

But when you look at the total strength of storms in each year since records began, some years are more fearsome than others.

Meteorologists use something called accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) to calculate the total wind power of all the storms in any given year.

As you can see from the following chart, there's no clear upward trend.



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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42251921

[firstfloor]

True. Trump has all the leadership qualities of a bluebottle.

[One Bad Pig]

You all are completely missing the point. The article is not blaming Trump FOR Florence, it is blaming Trump for actively working to dismantle efforts to combat human induced climate change, which is believed will produce a statistically larger number of more powerful storms. So Trump is complicit in that his actions are making it more likely climate change will continue unabated, producing more storms like Florence.

(emphasis added) Thank you for at least admitting that. When a policy results in unintended consequences which will actually make things worse, it absolutely should be dismantled. "Let's make it impossible to burn coal here, so the coal gets shipped to China instead, where they essentially don't even have environmental regulations!"

Kind of a stupid way to make the point if you ask me, it fans the flame of anti-media hysteria which defines the typical Trump supporter. But the article's main thrust, that Trump is setting us back decades in terms of dealing with AGW is valid. In fact, Trump is setting us back decades on environmental policy in general, not just AGW.

Jim

(emphasis added) What was that about hysteria again? Get a grip on yourself, Jim.

[Mountain Man]

It is hard to attribute any single weather event to climate change. [But we sure as hell are gonna try!]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...adlines&wpmm=1

That's essentially what they're saying.

[Sparko]

You all are completely missing the point. The article is not blaming Trump FOR Florence, it is blaming Trump for actively working to dismantle efforts to combat human induced climate change, which is believed will produce a statistically larger number of more powerful storms. So Trump is complicit in that his actions are making it more likely climate change will continue unabated, producing more storms like Florence.

Kind of a stupid way to make the point if you ask me, it fans the flame of anti-media hysteria which defines the typical Trump supporter. But the article's main thrust, that Trump is setting us back decades in terms of dealing with AGW is valid. In fact, Trump is setting us back decades on environmental policy in general, not just AGW.

Jim

"Trump is complicit" In what? "another hurricane"

They blame Trump, then back off and say "his AGW denial"

Even with complete denial, there is no way his policy has had any change on the climate in 1-1/2 years.

[Sparko]

[Cow Poke]

If Obama [the ONE] had simply fulfilled his own prophecy....

This "was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."

Then we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place.

[rogue06]

Yeah, now they are blaming the hurricane on Trump.

Another hurricane is about to batter our coast. Trump is complicit.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...adlines&wpmm=1

I seriously wonder if there are any folks along the Carolina coast who are utterly refusing to move inland before the hurricane strikes solely because Trump told them to.

[rogue06]

"Trump is complicit" In what? "another hurricane"

They blame Trump, then back off and say "his AGW denial"

Even with complete denial, there is no way his policy has had any change on the climate in 1-1/2 years.

For those lost deep in the throes of TDS that doesn't matter. It's still Trump's fault.