Oh, Really?? (You Worthless Sonsabitches)

Right on cue, the media frenzy is clawing its way to madness..  According to Politico magazine, Hurricane Harvey is something special, (drum roll please), due entirely to global warming.  I shit you not.

In all of U.S. history, there’s never been a storm like Hurricane Harvey. That fact is increasingly clear, even though the rains are still falling and the water levels in Houston are still rising.

Really?  You dumb sonsabitches?  That's the nature of the beast, and I talked about it earlier today.  The water is probably going to rise for at least a couple of days. Everyone knows that but the author.  Then it really gets weird.

But there’s an uncomfortable point that, so far, everyone is skating around: We knew this would happen, decades ago. We knew this would happen, and we didn’t care. Now is the time to say it as loudly as possible: Harvey is what climate change looks like. More specifically, Harvey is what climate change looks like in a world that has decided, over and over, that it doesn’t want to take climate change seriously.

 Here, the author is showing both his ignorance and stupidity.  He might recall studying the great hurricane that sunk the Spanish Treasure Fleet in 1715.  Or more recently, the hurricane of 1900 that wiped Galveston island off the map.  They didn't name hurricanes back then, but Google is your friend.  More currently, the ones that I can remember were named (in no particular order) Audrey, Camille, Andrew, Ike, Katrina, Rita, and Gustav.  I remember each and every one of those, because they affected me personally.  Again, Google is your friend.

But, the author, being young and stupid, probably doesn't understand that hurricanes are a fact of life in Louisiana and south Texas.   I can't believe that the editors at Politico would make this idiocy such an easy target, but they did all it to publish.   They should still be slapping him around the copy room, picking apart this idiocy line-by-line.  I won't do that because I've already established the full dumb-ass-idness of his hypothesis.

Harvey was bad, no doubt, for the people caught in its path. I have people who were in the path, and my heart aches for them, but Harvey is no more proof of climate change than any other data point.  Harvey was bad, but it came ashore as a weak Cat 1, got stuck between two high pressure systems and dumped unbelievable amounts of rain.

Politico simply wants to make points with a bullshit theory.  The evidence does not support the hypothesis.  Politico is populated with dumpb sonsofbitches, and that's all you need to know about that.