Schumer: 'If We Would Do More on Climate Change, We'd Have Fewer of These Hurricanes'

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(CNSNews.com) - Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.) believes that human beings could reduce the frequency of hurricanes and severe storms if only they would do more to counter climate change.

Speaking on the Senate floor Thursday, Schumer began by extending "our thoughts and hearts" to the people affected by Hurricane Michael.

"This year has seen huge a number of powerful storms and hurricanes buffet the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf," Schumer began:

Harvey, Irma, Maria, Florence, and now Michael have all wrought severe damages. According to NOAA, 2017 was the most expensive year on record for disasters in the U.S. At some point, we have to acknowledge the intensity of these storms that is much greater than in past years and is a symptom of changing climate.

Climate change is real, it is being driven by human activity, it is happening right now. These are facts; they are not in dispute. Our scientists know it, our businesses know it, the world knows it, and the American people know it. But, too many senators on the other side of the aisle just put their head in the sand.

It costs us more, and more, and more. We're not going to leave these people high and dry, but if we would do more on climate change, we'd have fewer of these hurricanes and other types of storms. Everyone knows that, except a few. Why? Why won't they admit the truth? Maybe there are two words that explain it: oil industry.

Schumer pointed to a U.N. report released this week that says the world has just a little over a decade to "get a handle on carbon emissions."

According to that U.N. report, there is "alarming evidence" that humanity has reached "important tipping points, leading to irreversible changes in major ecosystems and the planetary climate system.

"Ecosystems as diverse as the Amazon rainforest and the Arctic tundra may be approaching thresholds of dramatic change through warming and drying. Mountain glaciers are in alarming retreat and the downstream effects of reduced water supply in the driest months will have repercussions that transcend generations."

Schumer said the Trump administration has done nothing but "move the issue backward."

"Amazing -- that we, the leading country, supposed to be the moral force, the economic, political, military leader, we are the ones that pull out of the Paris Climate Accords and the administration has been repealing environmental protection after protection," Schumer said.

"So while we are thinking about the people of Florida and Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina and everyone in Hurricane Michael's path, let's remember that we are running out of time to do something about climate change, and the kind of storms we are seeing now will only increase if this body continues to keep its head in the sand, ostrichlike, and ignore the scientific realities."

Among other things, Schumer opposes the EPA's rollback of the Clean Power Plan, which set strict carbon emissions limiits for power plants; and the Trump administration's decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords.

As for the increasing frequency and intensity of hurricanes:

According to NOAA's National Hurricane Center, the 2017 North Atlantic hurricane season had 17 named storms, 10 hurricanes, and six major hurricanes. This was well above the 1981-2010 average of 12.1 named storms, 6.4 hurricanes, and 2.7 major hurricanes. The number of named storms ranked as the ninth most on record, the number of hurricanes ranked as the eighth most, and the number of major hurricanes ranked as the third most.

The 2017 hurricane season also was remarkable for ending a 12-year major hurricane drought in the continental United States.

(The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration defines a major storm as Category 3 or higher, with winds above 111 miles an hour.)

In late August 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Corpus Christi, Texas as Category 4 storm, breaking a record 4,323-day (142-month, 12-year) span without a major hurricane coming ashore.

Before Harvey, the last major hurricane to make landfall in the continental United States was Wilma, which struck Florida as a Category 3 in October 2005.

Between 2005 and 2017, only nine relatively minor hurricanes (Categories 1 or 2) had made direct landfall in the United States.

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Schumer: 'If We Would Do More on Climate Change, We'd Have Fewer of These Hurricanes'

What a maroon!!!

Are all (D) this stupid? Of course they are, how else would an imbecile like Schumer get into office.

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Originally posted by 4MUL8R:
Read this novel on your next trip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Fear

Excellent research woven into a compelling narrative.

Outstanding novel. Michael Crichton is truly missed in the literary world.



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Originally posted by wcb6092:
Schumer: 'If We Would Do More on Climate Change, We'd Have Fewer of These Hurricanes'

Senator Schumer, you truly are retarded.

The frequency and strength of hurricanes are unchanged since record keeping begins. What has changed is more population, more expensive structures, and replacement costs have gone up with inflation.

Only a Dufus would stand with Schumer.

Schmuck Schumer is representative of EVERYTHING wrong with this country...

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Originally posted by sourdough44:
The frequency and strength of hurricanes are unchanged since record keeping begins. What has changed is more population, more expensive structures, and replacement costs have gone up with inflation.

I think Sourdough44 tagged it... up until about 40 or so years ago a Hurricane hitting most of our coast would have just knocked out a few $10k vacation shacks on stilts. Now if one heads for the coast it takes 3 days just to evacuate all the people from their million dollar homes which fema will help to rebuild...

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Originally posted by wcb6092:



Schumer pointed to a U.N. report released this week that says the world has just a little over a decade to "get a handle on carbon emissions."

According to that U.N. report, there is "alarming evidence" that humanity has reached "important tipping points, leading to irreversible changes in major ecosystems and the planetary climate system.

Being cynical...

The US has done their part. When is eastern Europe, Russia, India and China going to step up to the plate.

CW

Whether or not climate change is a hoax is irrelevant. Who cares if there is a 'tipping point?' It's too late to do anything anyway. It seems like Artic ice, for example, is melting pretty fast but maybe that's just my imagination or I should stop looking at 'the media.' When Bangladesh, the Maldives and Miami Beach are under water people will just have to move.

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Originally posted by Blume9mm:

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Originally posted by sourdough44:
The frequency and strength of hurricanes are unchanged since record keeping begins. What has changed is more population, more expensive structures, and replacement costs have gone up with inflation.

I think Sourdough44 tagged it... up until about 40 or so years ago a Hurricane hitting most of our coast would have just knocked out a few $10k vacation shacks on stilts. Now if one heads for the coast it takes 3 days just to evacuate all the people from their million dollar homes which fema will help to rebuild...

The other change is the advent of 24 hour news networks beginning in 1980 (CNN) and 24 hour weather network in 1982. Now, we’re bombarded with sensationalized news where a tropical storm gets more coverage than pre-1980s hurricanes, and reporters have even been caught faking high winds and flooding.

Even though "State of Fear" is a novel, it is heavily footnoted and a lot of the statements/premises in the book are well documented. The book makes the case that it is government grants that pay for climate "research" and so the climate "scientists" need to find a continually worsening problem to keep the grant money flowing so they have a job. Follow the money!

Keeping in mind that the UNFCCC is the 'United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change':

"This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting
ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to
change the economic development model that has been reigning for at
least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen
overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate
change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 - you choose the number. It just does not
occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the
transformation.",
-Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC

Oh! And there's this one:

"Climate policy is redistributing the world's wealth andit's a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization. The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War."
-Prof. Ottmar Edenhofer, IPCC Co-chair of Working Group III on Mitigation of Climate Change.

Seems as though there's more afoot than saving that poor Polar Bear floating on the little iceberg, eh?

Green is the new Red. It's that simple. The environmental movement is a cover for marxism.

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Originally posted by sourdough44:
The frequency and strength of hurricanes are unchanged since record keeping begins. What has changed is more population, more expensive structures, and replacement costs have gone up with inflation.

Only a Dufus would stand with Schumer.

Not just dufuses, opportunistic fascists also stand with him, and direct him.



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Originally posted by jasonthechief:
Green is the new Red. It's that simple. The environmental movement is a cover for marxism.

Rush Limbaugh connected the environmental movement to marxism in his first book "The Way Things Ought to Be" way back in 1992. I scoffed at the notion back then, but he was absolutely right.



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This is one of the best things I've ever read on this subject. It was written by a University of Pennsylvania Law student Jason Scott Johnston. May of 2010. Global Warming Advocacy Science. A Cross Examination. Worth the time.

https://scholarship.law.upenn....lty_scholarship/315/

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Originally posted by cyberiad:
Whether or not climate change is a hoax is irrelevant. Who cares if there is a 'tipping point?' It's too late to do anything anyway. It seems like Artic ice, for example, is melting pretty fast but maybe that's just my imagination or I should stop looking at 'the media.' When Bangladesh, the Maldives and Miami Beach are under water people will just have to move.

It isn't a hoax, the planet changes. (the hype is a hoax, which is what I think you are referring to)
That's why there is GRASS under the permafrost in the arctic. It used to be a swamp.

Humans think that it should stay frozen because "it's always been that way". As if humans have always been here to know.
Paraphrasing George Carlin, if the planet wanted to, it could shake us off like a minor "surface nuisance".

Perhaps Chuck could take over from this guy, and the sea would actually stop when he commanded it. Or not.