As science deniers have complete control of the government, their past lies are stealing our children’s future and levying the largest tax increase in history on us all. We’ve been drowned by Harvey and hammered by Irma, and Jose is still out there and not to be forgotten.
I’ve broken apart an animation from NOAA’s GFS model that was produced earlier today.
Here’s the current image:
Notice that little spot in the lower right corner of the image? That’s the forgotten Jose.
Now lets look at the GFS forecast for 78 hours later.
Notice that Jose has grown in strength a bit and has become more organized.
And now hour 132:
Jose is scaring a lot of the islands out there and has moved a bit west.
Now hour 162:
Jose has become a well organized and scary storm.
And finally, hour 222:
It comes on shore very close to Washington DC ( a bit of karma?).
As we saw with Irma, projections out 9 days are not very accurate and even worse when using only one model so take this forecast with a GIANT grain of salt. But the point is, why the hell are we even thinking about the possibility of yet another hurricane especially after just suffering through 2 historic storms?
How many 500 year storms and storm seasons do we have to suffer through before the denialists are swept away like the possessions of so many of those who’ve had to go through these disasters? When are the denialists held responsible for the damage they’ve done to civilization’s future? When are the voters and non voters who empowered them going to wake up and never support their Oligarch enabled agenda?
500 year weather events are now 50 year events, 100 year flood plains are now 10 year flood plains, and we are all taxed more and more to cover for the lack of sensible land use regulations that denialist governments promote.
I hate to see the suffering that so many people are undergoing, but if we think we can drop $100 billion or more to have people rebuild and repeat the same mistakes every time the increasing Global Warming disasters happen, then we all are mathematically and economically challenged. Immediate aid should be given to help people get through these horrible events, but NO rebuilding support should be given to anyone unless the structure meets strict engineering requirements and scientifically accepted locations that will minimize the costs of the future disasters that the denialists have assured us we all will go through.
Oh, did I mention the west is on fire?
RESIST!