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Atlantic Ocean getting hot as hell - could be monstrous hurricane season

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Somewhere there is a map showing how normal 100 year extreme weather events are no longer 100 years in between events. We had a horrible flood in my area in 1985 and something like that may happen around every 40 years now. Welcome to the new normal.
 
Muse said:
New York Times piece just published on consequences of environmental disasters in the southern USA. This link will get anyone past the paywall for 14 days, i.e. until Oct. 16, 2024:

The People Fleeing Climate Disasters Are Going to Transform the American South​


www.nytimes.com

Opinion | The People Fleeing Climate Disasters Are Going to Transform the American South

The exodus of the young means high-risk towns could enter a population death spiral.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Mr. Lustgarten is treading into fantasy world if his scenario comes about (more prosperous and younger people leave the South for more environmentally safe areas, leaving a lowered tax base heavily slanted towards the elderly) and he expects Southern governments to raise taxes to pay for needed services. Rather they will go back to the sleepy South pre-air conditioning.
 
With once in a lifetime catastrophic flooding and destruction throughout the southern Appalachian mountains....

The inland impacts of Helene have been highly politicized for this year's election.
Full on MAGA campaign to pretend the Fed Gov is not involved in helping anyone.
Which of course diverts to talks of money and how it is spent on undesirables instead.
 
Thump553 said:
Mr. Lustgarten is treading into fantasy world if his scenario comes about (more prosperous and younger people leave the South for more environmentally safe areas, leaving a lowered tax base heavily slanted towards the elderly) and he expects Southern governments to raise taxes to pay for needed services. Rather they will go back to the sleepy South pre-air conditioning.
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Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see Lustgarten suggest that Southern local governments would raise taxes as a solution to out-migration.
 
Not any kind of surprise, but it takes a particularly slimy piece of shit to try to take advantage of a disaster to pin the shit on your opponent.

It's the kind of thing that would instantly cause me to vote the other way if I happened to be on the fence. As would the shitting on the heads and memories of veterans, among other things. As it happens, I'm nowhere near the fence so it doesn't move the needle. I couldn't detest Trump or his policies more than I already do. I'd like to think some in the public will hate this slimy shit as it deserves, but then it's the dumbass conspiracy-addled public we are talking about, so it'll probably help him.
 
Trump, accusing someone else of doing something he himself did? I'm as shocked as I was to wake up to find out it was raining this morning in the PNW.
 
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