Politics Has Forever Changed Hurricane Coverage: “these storms are manmade”

RUSH: folks, I realize how politics has infected everything. And I realize how many people in government or government-related jobs are totally now invested in this whole idea that human beings in the United States are causing climate change and causing these hurricanes. There are ridiculous statistics out. “Well, this is the first time we’ve ever had five Category 4 storm, Category 5 storms” — it’s not!

We’ve had hurricanes like this all the way back to the 30’s. The Labor Day hurricane in Miami back in the 1930s was every bit as bad if not worse. They’re not worse. They’re not more of them that are worse. There’s nothing they are saying about this that is anywhere near true. But for people that don’t have any history knowledge or perspective, they’re gonna fall into the trap of thinking that these things are bigger and worse than they’ve ever been so it must be climate change, and nothing could be further from the truth.

It’s kind of sad they end up hitting impoverished places. What’s happened to Grand Bahama. The amount of that island that’s now flooded and gone because the storm just stayed there and didn’t move while it was a Category 5 is just destructive as it can be. But even Todd Starnes had a tweet, The Weather Channel’s about 2% forecasting and 98% fearmongering. And it is exactly, exactly right.

So here we have this brilliant Emory professor, Tiphanie Yanique, and the question, “In the nonstop coverage of what’s happening with this hurricane, there’s almost no mention of climate change.”

YANIQUE: The truth is that these storms that are hitting the Caribbean with this intense magnitude are historic, unprecedented and these storms are manmade storms. When I was growing up in the Caribbean, we would get really dangerous storms once a decade, and now we’re beginning to see them regularly. The Virgin Islands was hit by two Category 5 storms, only two years ago, while President Trump indeed was our president.

RUSH: This is such a shame. This woman is a university professor, and she’s stupid! She is ignorant and dumb. Hurricanes are not manmade. If they were, we could have shut this down and we could put in jail whoever made it. We could sue whoever made it for all the damage. This is ridiculous! But this woman is a university professor.

And they are not historic! It was Roy Spencer’s point here. If you don’t care about hurricanes, you better, because the lies and the distortions and the sheer ignorance. TV people find experts, put ’em out there to lie to people about things like this. When I was growing up in the Caribbean we would get really dangerous storms once a decade? Tiphanie Yanique.

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