We are told this because someone driving an SUV caused the extreme weather
(USA Today) Violent and deadly weather events have affected more than 240 million Americans — about 80% of the nation’s population — over the past six years, says a report out today from an environmental advocacy group.
Last year was particularly awful for weather in the USA, with at least 14 weather and climate disasters across the nation that each inflicted more than $1 billion in damage. They included a series of devastating tornado outbreaks in the central and southern USA, the ongoing drought in the southern Plains, massive river flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, and batterings from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee.
Environment America’s report looks broadly at county-level weather-related disaster declarations from FEMA for 2006 through 2011 to find out how many Americans live in counties hit by recent weather disasters. The report focused on weather and climate events, and did not include geological events such as earthquakes or volcanic eruptions.
Question: why didn’t they look back further? Every year most people are affected by big weather events, but, of course, that’s not what they want people to know: they want to push their extreme environmentalist/global warming agenda on Everyone Else. As usual, this is highlighted by their “Take Action” page, which fails to highlight how Warmists can make changes in their own lives.
If climate change is helping to fuel some of these disasters, as Environment America claims in the report, the group argues the onslaught of catastrophes could become the norm in decades to come.
If they truly believed that, they’d all become “carbon neutral,” yet, they never do. Of course, natural climate change is always going to occur, it can’t be stopped.
