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Climate Change and Hurricane Melissa

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Posted By: Hazymac, 10/31/2025 3:33:32 PM

In the wake of Hurricane Melissa, everyone should be praying for rapid relief to many who suffered injuries or the loss of loved ones (at least 49 died), homes, businesses, and other property, likely to surpass $8 billion. At the same time, we can be thankful that losses were far lower than they might have been, since its path didn’t include areas with far more people and property. Having wrought havoc in Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane, followed by Haiti, eastern Cuba, and parts of the Bahamas (all Cat-3), Melissa was on its way northeast into the open Atlantic, with Bermuda likely to suffer from it as well,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Trump Won 10/31/2025 3:57:17 PM (No. 2024244)
Right. What happened to the above average hurricane season with all the landfalling major hurricanes in the US.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: mc squared 10/31/2025 3:59:00 PM (No. 2024245)
We have had a warmer than usual summer in in FL. Women at a party yesterday were trying to tie it to climate change. I said "If you can have a warmer summer in just 1 year, it's not change - it's weather." Crickets.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Venturer 10/31/2025 4:29:31 PM (No. 2024256)
Melissa was a bad hurricane, but there have been worse, and there were fewer bad hurricanes this year than any year in my memory. Can we blame fewer hurricanes on climate change? It's just a natural climate occurrence, Climate has been changing since the beginning of time, believe we can control it is the most stupid idea ever formed.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: sunset 10/31/2025 5:30:19 PM (No. 2024268)
But, what a boon for the windmill business.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 10/31/2025 6:04:35 PM (No. 2024284)
"Jamaica continues to suffer the severe impacts of a climate crisis we did not instigate" This is what this is all about, assigning blame to successful nations who supposedly got that way by using excess amounts of fossil fuel, and then when countries like Jamaica "suffer" climate problems, they can try to hold up developed nations for $$$. This is why it is essential for the Left to tie everything to carbon use and thereby to sources of prosperity and money. If it were proven that most climate problems are of natural origins, then the people that want to hold us up for $$$ would have no basis for doing so. They desperately need the carbon = climate issues link.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: czechlist 10/31/2025 6:11:13 PM (No. 2024286)
Severe weather is caused by the intersecting of cold and warm air masses. The Global Warming theory claims the Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else. Therefore the cold air should be warmer than in the past and storms less severe. ??
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 10/31/2025 6:31:17 PM (No. 2024305)
"Climate change" is a myth. It doesn't exist in the form that these econazis claim, meaning whatever small changes MIGHT be occurring have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the activities of mankind. The planet has been having big hurricanes and typhoons for hundreds of millions of years. Humans have no input at all to this process. We need to just try to stay out of the way.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: franq 10/31/2025 7:56:53 PM (No. 2024343)
Any Caribbean island taking a direct hit from hurricane is going to be devastated. It has nothing to do with climate change.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Strike3 11/1/2025 6:51:42 AM (No. 2024423)
They have it backwards. Hurricanes cause drastic change in the climate for a short period of time. Then the sun comes out. Try building your homes out of something a bit stronger than corrugated metal and plywood. Hurricanes originate somewhere in the area of South Africa. Who is filling the air with carbon dioxide down there?
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Reply 10 - Posted by: bpl40 11/1/2025 7:10:56 AM (No. 2024434)
Don't try logic and facts on these people. They are not interested.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: privateer 11/1/2025 7:49:30 AM (No. 2024443)
The Climate Change Scam is simply the newest incarnation of Marxist theory: from each according to his gullibility; to each according to his greed. Wealth transfer. And thanks to the lying media, and blowhard idiots like AOC, it works pretty well.
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