Global warming

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A single hurricane is hardly proof of AGW, but so many this early is consistent. Hurricane Ian is already a big killer and a cause of economic damage far from complete, let alone from the last calculation. It has raked Cuba,  Florida, and South Carolina so far.  

I saw a video of a man waving the vile flag reading "F--- BIDEN" as the hurricane approached in Florida. I hope that the fool survived, but I can't be so generous about his banner. I am not sharing that video because it offends my sensibilities on two different counts.

Quote:CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Rescuers searched for survivors among the ruins of Florida’s flooded homes from Hurricane Ian while authorities in South Carolina waited for daylight to assess damage from the storm’s second strike as the remnants of one of the strongest and costliest disasters to ever hit the U.S. continued to push north.


The powerful storm terrorized millions of people for most of the week, battering western Cuba before raking across Florida from the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean, where it mustered enough strength for a final assault on South Carolina. It has since weakened to a still-dangerous post-tropical cyclone and was crossing North Carolina toward Virginia overnight, pushing heavy rains toward the Mid-Atlantic states.

At least 30 people were confirmed dead, including 27 people in Florida mostly from drowning but others from the storm’s tragic aftereffects. An elderly couple died after their oxygen machines shut off when they lost power, authorities said. Meanwhile, distraught residents waded through knee-high water on Friday, salvaging what possessions they could from their flooded homes and loading them onto rafts and canoes.

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