Yesterday Oklahoma got hammered by a mile-wide F4 tornado. Hundreds of homes, businesses, hospitals and schools were destroyed. There's confusion over the actual death toll, but hundreds are injured and dozens are dead, including many children.
Oklahoma's junior senator, Tom Coburn, wants "offsets" for any federal aid sent to Oklahoma. That is, he wants to take money directly away from other Americans and send it to his state to pay for tornado damage.
Human-induced climate change caused by excess CO2 in the atmosphere has increased the intensity and frequency of severe weather like hurricanes, tornadoes and thunderstorms that have been hammering the country -- in recent years we've been getting tornadoes as early in January and February. The hurricane season has been starting earlier and lasting longer. Then there are the persistent droughts and constantly recurring floods and wildfires. The insurance industry knows just how real climate change is: they foot a lot of the bill. But the taxpayers pay the rest.
Yet Oklahoma's senior senator, James Inhofe, has been leading a jihad against climate scientists, claiming that global warming is a hoax. He and other shills of the petroleum industry have been trying to destroy the EPA, the National Weather Service and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). Inhofe, Coburn and other Republicans in Washington have been gutting funding for climate research, including climate-tracking satellites.
Those same satellites are needed to predict and track severe weather like hurricanes and tornadoes. In their lust to deny scientists data that proves the reality of climate change, Republicans are destroying the very agencies that can help to save the lives of the people Inhofe and Coburn represent.
Oklahoma is in the heart of Tornado Alley. It's also the number five oil producer in the country. Inhofe and Coburn want the rest of the country to pay for damage they've suffered. I'm okay with that. But burning all that oil has a lot to do with the uptick in severe weather disasters and drought in Oklahoma and across the country.
Senator Tweedledum and Senator Tweedledee need to acknowledge the part their oil industry plays in climate disasters, and they need to fund the research, the equipment, the policies and the personnel needed to predict and mitigate those disasters in the future.
8 comments:
has increased the intensity and frequency of severe weather like hurricanes, tornadoes and thunderstorms that have been hammering the country
The entire basis for your screed right there. Without proof that this is true the rest of your argument falls apart. With that in mind...
Got any proof or cite for that?
No, he doesn't. I've shot this down more than once from both Nikto and Marky-Mark with links to the National Weather Service, NOAA, etc., but they keep repeating this line of crap. I know Mark's reading comprehension isn't that great, but who knows with a shit-and-run poster like Nikto?
But he does seem to think that if this disaster aid is offset elsewhere from current spending, taxpayers from elsewhere will be "paying" for it, but not if we borrow or print it. Okaaay.
Human-induced climate change caused by excess CO2 in the atmosphere has increased the intensity and frequency of severe weather like hurricanes, tornadoes and thunderstorms
Contrary to the science.
And progressives wonder why they get abused for claiming to be reality based.
disaster aid is offset elsewhere from current spending
Heck, why offset? All that money spent on fixing broken windows and such - and the people paid to re-build it is stimulus and can do nothing but increase the economy. In that case, bring on the severe weather and watch the GDP go up..........
Human-induced climate change caused by excess CO2 in the atmosphere has increased the intensity and frequency of severe weather like hurricanes, tornadoes and thunderstorms
Just for the poor misguided souls that buy into Nikto's line here, I'll again post some graphs from NOAA, the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration showing just how far up his posterior his cranium wedged:
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/images/tornado/clim/EF3-EF5.png
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/torgraph-big.png
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/images/cei/step6.02-01.gif
He'll regurgitate the same crap again next month or next year, too, whether or not the facts back him up or not. Actual numbers don't mean anything to him compared to an excuse to hiss at and hurl abuse at Emmanuele Goldstein, er, I mean any random Republican.
Looks to me like you are ahead of the game, Larry. I think it's important that you try to save us all from the climate change agenda of making us all do...something...something bad.
change agenda of making us all do
There shouldn't really be any agenda to make us all do anything. You really do love that all for the state thing, don't you?
Oh, and here is the truth about Sen. Coburn as opposed to the deceptions cycling thru the left's fever swamp.
So, Mark ... you're all for passing all kinds of laws, making new regulations, and spending money to combat an awful increase in tornadoes and hurricanes that ... isn't happening? It's your rare accidental bits of honesty that are such a hoot, you know.
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