I swear this is something people are missing with climate change. Yeah, 1.5 degree warming of the land, water and air isn't alot... until you realize how much energy that takes at a regional or global scale....
And that is added to every natural disaster.
There is just no way to communicate these numbers effectively to the masses 😕
The minute you mention 1.5 degrees people turn their brain off, as "that can't possibly be a problem"
You have to spend like 2 weeks explaining weather, climate and history before somone is educated enough to understand the problem.
Meanwhile bad actors can just say it was cold today in August! Where's your global warming??
And all your work is undone in 2 seconds....
It's fucking frustrating
When a country goes to war, they don't explain all the detailled reasoning and causes to the masses either.
They just say "We're at war, everything is at stake, this is what you have to do..."
Maybe that would be an alternative approach?
So nuke the hurricanes then?
Drone-strike the billionaires...hypothetically.
I really like the way Katharine Hayhoe communicates this...
She explains how normal temperature fluctuations in the climate system are actually pretty similar, scaled down, to temperature fluctuations in your body throughout the day. You don't typically worry if your body gets slightly warmer than average, but if it's a a couple of degrees, suddenly you're wanting to see the doctor, wondering who coughed on you, staying home from work, etc
Maybe we should report this as some "the global warming till now is equivalent to throwing x atom bombs in our frickin atmosphere" and people may start realizing.
Atmospheres with frickin atom bombs attached to their heads!
Never thought about that way, very good point. Pretty disastrous
How many more are predicted this season? I thought I read they feel it's probable at least another hurricane will hit the US this season. Isn't that why FEMA is freaking out because they don't have the money/resources to handle another?
There's been a 40% chance of another storm right in the gulf for the last week. It's possible that the same devastated area gets hit again before they've even had a chance to figure out what happened last week.
Here's the thing: I think the Republicans are going to try to human sacrifice in Florida for votes.
They're already spinning the FEMA funding issue as being because FEMA "spent all their money on immigrants," and another devastating hurricane where FEMA can't help as effectively would allow them to run with the idea they're already currently (ineffectively) trying to push, which is that FEMA isn't helping.
They're already saying they won't vote for additional FEMA funding due to the bullshit "immigrants" thing. So they're going to try to flat-foot FEMA, hope for a horrifying national disaster, blame FEMA for letting people die while spending money on immigrants, and then attempt to pin it on (Biden) Harris.
They're trying to position themselves so they can let people die in order to win an election. And it's very possible it will work.
Well they sacrificed 4,000 of my friends for votes so that tracks.
I'm fully confident that Republicans in Florida would support this idea. I think they'd literally be willing to die to make Biden look bad. Fucked up world.
The worst of Helene hardly scratched Florida compared to what happened in Western North Carolina. Cities and towns entirely wiped out.
Most of these places are so devastated that there is no infrastructure left to allow voting to happen with. Many of the hit places are republican strongholds. Withholding funding will only hurt Republicans.
So let them try this, it’s their own asses on the line
Asheville is the hardest hit area from what I understand and it's extremely blue.
Yet we send 20 billion to Israel to murder more brown people with.
When is America gonna start caring about Americans?
It's absolutely wild that the brunt of the impact was clear on the opposite end of the state from the coast.
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