Hurricanes, Floods, Wildfires, and Tornado Season Without FEMA

According to a 2021 study, more than 99.9% of peer-reviewed scientific papers agree that climate change is mainly caused by humans, according to a new survey of 88,125 climate-related studies.

Think about that. Trump seeks so called experts from that 1% to head the agencies in his administration and push his altered reality. It's ignorance, greed, and very disturbing mentality.

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One of the key disseminators of climate misinformation is the fossil fuel industry, who court and pay Trump millions to do their bidding. Then you have guys like Abbott and Cruz doing the same. It's greed and ignorance, with a dose of complete lack of concern on the effects on the environment and people affected by their decisions. It's gross and disgusting selfishness.

Conservative or right-wing outlets “give priority to and amplify denial, scepticism, and conspiracy theories regarding climate change”, and social media bots and trolls promote denialist discourse. In the US, nine out of the 10 top online shows are right-leaning and climate-denying.

IPIE pointed out how governments like Russia and right-wing political parties – from Vox Party and AfD in Europe to the Republican Party in the US – have magnified climate denialism and misinformation. So it comes as no surprise that IPIE named President Donald Trump as a “key influencer” for climate misinformation, as his “logical fallacies, unfounded claims, and cherry-picking of findings were heavily retweeted by other users”. In fact, close to a quarter of the tweets related to his announcement of the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement originated from bot accounts, deepening the links between social media, right-wing politics, and climate misinformation.

The U.S. Under Trump: Alone in Its Climate Denial - The New York Times https://share.google/l36p2eu1rXHNmGqEx

Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe, report says | Climate crisis |

Donald Trump, who has called climate science “a giant hoax” and “bullshit”, is identified as a key influencer, “whose logical fallacies, unfounded claims and cherrypicking of findings were heavily” reposted by other social media users, including many bot accounts. The report says Russian intelligence has used troll farms to disseminate disinformation about climate change.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...n-turning-crisis-into-catastrophe-ipie-report

 

Historic flooding seems to happening more and more.

3 dead after historic flash flooding hits New Mexico town ravaged by wildfires

Two of the victims were identified as the children of a soldier on leave from Fort Bliss, Texas.

The remote village of Ruidoso, about 180 miles south of Albuquerque, said a 4-year-old girl, a 7-year-old boy and a man age 40 to 50 were all “swept downstream by the unprecedented floodwaters."

The boy and girl were identified as the children of a soldier on leave from Fort Bliss, the military post in El Paso, Texas, officials said Wednesday. The family were caught in the flood while they were camping near Ruidoso, the base said in a statement.

"Ruidoso endured devastating wildfires and flooding last summer, and now catastrophic flooding is hitting this resilient community again. This crisis demands immediate action," she said in a statement.

Videos posted on social media and verified by NBC News showed roads submerged in fast-moving floodwaters and a home smashing into trees after it was swept down Rio Ruidoso.

Crawford said that before the rains, the river that swept away the house was so small "you could have jumped across it."

The National Weather Service reported that the river appeared to have crested at a record 20.24 feet Tuesday. The previous record was 15.86 feet, set last year.

The South Fork Fire ignited on June 17, 2024, and burned through more than 17,000 acres. The fire was so hot that it turned the soil hydrophobic, meaning it does not absorb water, Crawford said. There was flooding in the community last year.

The soldier and the soldier's spouse sustained serious injuries and were hospitalized in Texas, according to the statement. Additional details about the man who was killed were not immediately released.

Four people remain missing, officials said Wednesday. They added that three people were hospitalized and are stable and that 20 people remain displaced.

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Bad choice of words. Historic level floods and extreme precipitation events are happening more often now.

Nine of the top 10 years for extreme one-day precipitation events between 1910 and 1923 have occurred since 1995

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I'd like to see how the study and chart below has changed since 2011...

Global Warming and the Increase in Extreme Precipitation from 1948 to 2011

Extreme downpours are now happening 30 percent more often nationwide than in 1948.

Extreme downpours – rainstorms and snowfalls that are among the largest experienced at a particular location* – are now happening 30 percent more often on average across the contiguous United States than in 1948.

New England has experienced the greatest change, with intense rainstorms and snowstorms now happening 85 percent more often than in 1948. The frequency of intense rain or snowstorms nearly doubled in Vermont and Rhode Island, and more than doubled in New Hampshire.

https://environmentamerica.org/center/resources/when-it-rains-it-pours/

 

FEMA needs a personal sign-off by Kristi Noem before any funds over 100,000 can be released. Disaster response costs routinely soar into the billions as the agency contracts with on-the-ground crews.

Four officials inside the agency said in responding to the flooding-- FEMA ran into the bureaucratic obstacles almost instantly. Multiple sources say Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of urban search and rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began.

And a source says Texas requested aerial imagery from FEMA to help search and rescue operations, but the imagery was delayed as Texas awaited Noem’s approval for the necessary contract.

A FEMA official also says callers to a disaster call center faced longer wait times as the agency awaited Noem’s approval for a contract to bring in additional support staff.

Isn't having federal support in taking action, sending support, and saving lives more important than anything else? But, Trump doesn't care about global warming and that we are now seeing more intense storms happening, more historic flooding happening, hurricanes intensifying more rapidly, and more need for top notch forecasting and support in the air and on the ground when disasters strike. He'll always be safe. He can fly away to another one of his resorts to avoid any danger.

He'd rather spend 45 billion for migrant detention facility beds, 46 billion for the U.S.-Mexico border wall, 25 billion annually for a Golden Dome, and a total of $350 billion for border and national security funding. He just won't tell anyone that the majority of those illegals being rounded up weren't even a danger to anyone's lives to begin with.