Furlock Bones said:

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It's because we have followed these meteorologists for a while and already know their stance. see this.


12 min ago
Why was Hurricane Helene so bad? Fossil fuel pollution.
From Angela Fritz, CNN Senior Weather & Climate Editor


(CSU/CIRA & NOAA)
Hurricane Helene was bound to be a major disaster.
The atmosphere, warmed by more than a century of fossil fuel pollution, is hotter now than it was in pre-industrial times. That means it can hold more moisture, which wrings out as torrential rain in storms like Helene, triggering deadly flooding not just in Florida but across the Southeast.
Helene also rapidly intensified twice before it reached Florida, because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is off-the-charts warm much like the rest of the Atlantic. More than 90% of warming around the globe over the past 50 years has taken place in the oceans, and it's making storms more likely to undergo these rapid intensification cycles.
Sea levels in Florida are as much as 8 inches higher than they were in 1950. The speed of that rise is increasing too. This translates to higher storm surge.
Across the board, Helene was a hurricane supercharged by climate change.

Sea surface temperatures were abnormally warm as Helene crossed from the Caribbean Sea to the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday into Wednesday, allowing the system to rapidly intensify. The darker the orange, the warmer the water is than normal.
CNN Weather
"For decades now, scientists have been warning us that extreme weather events will be exacerbated by this blanket of carbon pollution we've been wrapping around our planet," said Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist at the Nature Conservancy. "But as a human, it is shocking to see the devastation occurring in front of our eyes, affecting the people and places we know and love."
Hurricane expert Jeff Masters tallied up some numbers last night that speak for themselves:
There have now been eight Category 4 or 5 hurricane landfalls on US soil in the past eight years.
That's as many as the entire 57 years that came before it.

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Experts warn hurricane forming in hurricane alley during hurricane season is clear sign of climate change (Babylon Bee)

It's a dice roll to live on the coast, which is why I never will. Give me a lakehouse upstream of the dam any day though.

🚨 HEROIC RESCUE! The U.S. Coast Guard shared a video of their daring rescue of a man and his dog after their sailboat was disabled during Hurricane #Helene. Both are safe and in good health.

📹: AST2 Hudson, edited by Lt. Cmdr. Kellerman, AirSta Clearwater pic.twitter.com/aD5lpt8cxz

— John-Carlos Estrada 🎙️ (@Mr_JCE) September 27, 2024

Cromagnum said:

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It's a dice roll to live on the coast, which is why I never will. Give me a lakehouse upstream of the dam any day though.

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You just triggered everyone in Kingwood.

maroon barchetta said:

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Cromagnum said:

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It's a dice roll to live on the coast, which is why I never will. Give me a lakehouse upstream of the dam any day though.

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You just triggered everyone in Kingwood.

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He meant above the Lake Conroe dam.

PJYoung said:

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🚨 HEROIC RESCUE! The U.S. Coast Guard shared a video of their daring rescue of a man and his dog after their sailboat was disabled during Hurricane #Helene. Both are safe and in good health.

📹: AST2 Hudson, edited by Lt. Cmdr. Kellerman, AirSta Clearwater pic.twitter.com/aD5lpt8cxz

— John-Carlos Estrada 🎙️ (@Mr_JCE) September 27, 2024

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I have a friend who was a rescue swimmer in the Coast Guard. When he was stationed at Galveston one of their regular workouts and fitness tests was to swim from the ferry landing on Galveston to the ferry landing on Bolivar for time. I forget the time standard and whether or not they had to swim back too- they probably did.

That's roughly 2.6 miles, one-way, and doesn't account for current or anything else. They did have a chase boat for safety purposes though.

PJYoung said:

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🚨 HEROIC RESCUE! The U.S. Coast Guard shared a video of their daring rescue of a man and his dog after their sailboat was disabled during Hurricane #Helene. Both are safe and in good health.

📹: AST2 Hudson, edited by Lt. Cmdr. Kellerman, AirSta Clearwater pic.twitter.com/aD5lpt8cxz

— John-Carlos Estrada 🎙️ (@Mr_JCE) September 27, 2024

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What was the idiot doing on a sailboat in Cat 4 hurricane?

Should've just saved the dog and let him fend for himself.

I'm glad the man and dog were rescued, but what was he thinking being out there in the first place?

ETA- AG07 beat me to it

Reminds me of that recent commercial of a guy sailing out of port and hollering "Great day for a sail" as there's thunder clouds and lightening in the background.
Dock side, one guy says to the other, "I'll go call the Coastguard"

He probably was trying to get out and around it to save his boat before it came through, then something broke and it got disabled where he couldn't fight the waves and get out of the way.

The great thing about the USCG is they don't discriminate. If you need help at sea, they will help you.

I am very close to setting all my replies on Twitter to just people I follow. These people are either 100% incapable of critical thinking or they’re troll farmers. No other explanation. https://t.co/ZLFkrjACTy

— Matt Lanza 🤌🏼 (@mattlanza) September 27, 2024

trusted source for news

Dude needs to forgot how to log onto the internet. Gonna go insane in real time.

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I am very close to setting all my replies on Twitter to just people I follow.

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Whoa! What a severe threat. I hope you simpletons will heed his dire warning.

in his defense.. those are some silly tweets

swimmerbabe11 said:

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swimmerbabe11 said:

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in his defense.. those are some silly tweets

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and ...also, I have now seen both democrats and republicans blame each other for a natural disaster ... so.. SNAFU.

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Bush and Cheney sold the hurricane machine to the Democrats???

maroon barchetta said:

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swimmerbabe11 said:

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swimmerbabe11 said:

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in his defense.. those are some silly tweets

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and ...also, I have now seen both democrats and republicans blame each other for a natural disaster ... so.. SNAFU.

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Bush and Cheney sold the hurricane machine to the Democrats???

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Makes more sense if you just call Bush and Cheney Democrats (especially since one of them has publicly endorsed the D candidate)

Silly tweets that have nothing to do with Lanza or Houston, posted by some rando conspiracy theorist, then screencapped and shared by some random Democrat activist in Missouri, then retweeted by Lanza to show us what kind of very real adversity he's up against! #Slava Lanza

Though the rando conspiracy theorist describes himself as a bestselling author, so I looked him up on Amazon. May have to expand my library:


https://www.amazon.com/stores/Cory-Seale/author/B0CHLCGJ8K

*just posted for informational purposes so you can understand the kind of adversity Matt Lanza is up against in this world.

The tribalism that passes for partisan politics in this country is a disease.

But that is for another cesspool…I mean forum.

Back to discussions of wind and rain and tracks.

FireJimbonow said:

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There's actually people that believe Dems created hurricanes? Even as a conservative, I can't believe people actually think that.

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Dems believed the Bush/Cheney machine created hurricanes. This isn't new.