Yes, you should be a little freaked out about Hurricane Beryl
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uesc_marathon
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The world is a kettle and humanity increasingly smells like delicious boiled frogs' legs.
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Good thing the Florida Legislature banned climate change. Think of how much trouble that state would have if Beryl were allowed to land there!
EDIT: /s, just in case it's not already clear
EDIT: /s, just in case it's not already clear
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The charted data point that far out of the normal range for the past 150 years truly a terrifying prospect. Let's hope it's taken seriously and can act a catalyst for change! For some reason, this hope feels hopeless.
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One key thing about Beryl is that it’s moving fast, which means a lot less damage than the extremely slow storms in a couple of recent seasons.
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It's not so much that it's banned because of climate change, but because it rode across the ocean from a foreign land.
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My mom pointed out that this year we not only had my oldest daughter's name (Beryl) but also my last name (Kirk). Next year my nephew Sebastien has his own hurricane name too. Kind of funny how that works.
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The ban's working, isn't it? Beryl didn't hit the US, and since it only affects some poor brown people we can ignore it.
Next up, banning discussion of pollution- since the EPA isn't allowed to do anything anymore we just have to say it's not happening and we'll be perfectly safe. (And if not, most of the damage will be done to poor brown people anyway, so no worries)
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That's because climate change is a hoax, spread by the Chinese to, um, uh.... to.... sell Chinese-made solar panels?
Huge /s, of course.
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Photon_plumber
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Florida needs a dose of skepticism-ending reality to knock on their door step. Wouldn’t hurt if one came a’knocking on Texas either.
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Good thing their children are safe from the horrible theory of climate change! That way they can peacefully sunbath themselves on the beaches without a worry in the world! ....Wait, what's that dark cloud on the horizon? Also, why is the beach so small now!? Must be those damned Democrat wave machines attacking our beach freedom! /s
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Come on, now. People will die and have their lives ruined, and 40.6% of Florida voters voted against DeSantis.
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I got that your second sentence was sarcasm, but I couldn't tell if your first one was satire. For anyone still wondering, it's not. Unbelievable.
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1. You're a dick.
2. The popcorn thing needs to be taken out back.
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Lives near Chicago... looks around at all the tornado devastation so far
Last time I checked, we're on the same rock.
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The post said ‘knock on the door’, not a full bowling over, home invasion. A near miss is enough to get one’s attention, like an asteroid.
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It's not like Katrina made Louisiana acknowledge reality or anything...
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Wishing a hurricane upon a population in order to effect change to state government is not the flex you think it is.
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An attention-getting, “wow that was close” event is what’s needed to keep it on the mind. Maybe it’ll trigger a change in building/location attitudes, and alleviate the need for the rest of us to pick up the tab for the inevitable damage of living in hurricane country.
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This is true. Just yesterday I saw that Louisiana was involved in a lawsuit over liquid natural gas export permits.
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The odds of a) that happening and b) it actually changing anything are slim to none.
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Perhaps skyrocketing home owners insurance will do it on its own. The industry see the threat to their bottom line presented by climate change. I perceive Florida real estate as being uninsurable in a few years. No insurance, no mortgage. Complete collapse of local real estate.
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A sobering occurrence.
That should have been seen coming
That still shocks.
That presages many years of upcoming trouble.
(it's a metaphor)
That should have been seen coming
That still shocks.
That presages many years of upcoming trouble.
(it's a metaphor)
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I am just waiting for climate change to grant Earth a permanent eye-spot storm that just continuously circles the globe throughout the year for centuries, much like Jupiter's Great Red Spot. After all, humans think they are so superior, then Mama Nature says hold my organically sourced chai latte.
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That is likely because the area affected is usually pretty small. Katrina happened to hit a major city and was fairly large but that was the liberal part of LA anyway. I agree that these events will be unlikely to change people's minds but they also usually only affect a small number of people compared to the population of the states.
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As long as it went right through the Mar-a-Lago Club. When His Majesty was in residence of course.
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The third from the last paragraph, dismissing the impact of Beryl, because it will not affect the US, seems a bit provincial.
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It would be an interesting exercise to see what codes changed after Katrina. My hunch is that they’re better & stronger to possibly avoid the worst of another Katrina, the financial pressure to not build to worst case is really overpowering in this country. It seems we’re one step behind where we should be as a result.
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