If Harvey hits Texas as an actual hurricane, which is looking likely, it will have been the first time in 9 years that Texas was hit by a hurricane. And one of the few actual hurricane strikes on the continental U.S. since 2008. If it makes it to major hurricane status (category 3+), which is a possibility, it would be the first time since Wilma in October of 2005.
So, of course, we get this
https://twitter.com/randywalters/status/900718532790546432
and
Harvey looks bad. It also shows how the Gulf Coast, along with California, may be the place where the GOP finally cracks on climate change. https://t.co/oWwx6AnH5w
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) August 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/andydhorowitz/status/900731132550971392
There’s plenty more on Twitter.
And from Big Joe
https://twitter.com/BigJoeBastardi/status/900557783652859904
More: As you would expect, Twitter has really gone downhill now that Harvey is expected to land as a Cat 3. The first in almost 12 years. And we’re getting stuff like
https://twitter.com/TeaTraitors/status/900820206674509824
https://twitter.com/FoundMyCarKeys/status/900745149759672321
Here's why Hurricane Harvey is so scary and unprecedented. https://t.co/nlcUv3383Z via @NewRepublic
— Climate Desk (@ClimateDesk) August 24, 2017
Unprecedented. Sigh.
The warmer water of the Gulf (due to climate change) could make Hurricane Harvey a potentially catastrophic storm. https://t.co/anL8hmEEYd
— Public Citizen Texas (@PublicCitizenTX) August 24, 2017
What caused the Gulf to be so warm back during the Great Galveston hurricane of 1900?
-Elwood P. Dowd
We were supposed to have increased drought and they were supposed to last longer too. We were supposed to experience more tornadoes as well as more frequent and stronger hurricanes. When absolutely none of these occurred but in fact the numbers decreased along with the severity they are left with jumping on the very first hurricane to make landfall in over what 10 years? Then they just go nuts over it. Do any of these individuals realize just how silly they are making themselves look? But I guess when you are going to have only one chance to toot your global warming excuse me your climate change horn once every 10 years when you were told by all of these knowledge scientists that you could toot it every year maybe we should just cut them some slack and simply ignore them.
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