{"id":347655,"date":"2024-10-19T17:30:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T15:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=347655"},"modified":"2024-10-19T17:30:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T15:30:33","slug":"hurricane-milton-cars-save-the-day-as-harris-goes-veep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=347655","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Milton: Cars save the day as Harris goes \u201cVeep\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Craig Rucker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hurricanes Helene and Milton dealt Florida a potent one-two punch of high winds and storm surge.  Helene\u2019s dramatic rains flooded large areas of the American South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last thing people working to rebuild needed was unscientific posturing from the climate-Left and politicians playing for advantage, but of course that\u2019s just what they got.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ever-further-left Greenpeace asked, \u201cas hurricanes from Beryl to Milton leave huge destruction in their wake, who do you think should pay to rebuild and recover?\u201d  You know their answer \u2014 businesses and taxpayers in the free world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vice President Kamala Harris used the hurricanes to go full-on \u201cSelina Myers<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NY Post reports that<\/a> Vice President Harris, after not engaging in hurricane emergency prep during previous storms, sought to generate video of her working hurricane Milton.  Harris was miffed when Governor DeSantis was too busy doing real hurricane prep to take her call.  President Biden was no help when he told the press that DeSantis need not bother with Harris as he \u201cwas talking to him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a video briefing<\/a> that appeared to serve no other purpose than to insert Harris into the hurricane, she \u201ccould be seen covering her mouth, appearing to relay a message to someone else through a microphone and earpiece.  The V.P. mumbled, \u2018it\u2019s a live broadcast\u2019 behind her hands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are few things team climate loves to demonize as much as cars with internal combustion engines and the energy companies that fuel them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you had to flee over 500 miles, as so many Floridians did to escape the hurricanes, would you rather trust your family to a long-range, fast fill up gas-fueled car, or a short-range, long charge, electric vehicle?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was automobiles that enabled millions of Floridians to relocate to the safe havens of their choice over just two days.  It is cars that now see them rolling safely home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electric vehicles could not have evacuated Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How about those who want to eliminate all of our cars and replace them with trains?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you imagine millions of Floridians trying to escape the hurricane\u2019s wrath by queuing up for trains?  Of course not, it would have been impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CFACT\u2019s Chris Martz<\/a> has a unique talent for countering climate exaggerations with hard scientific data.  When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that the hurricanes were caused by human-induced climate change, Chris whipped out a chart showing actual Gulf of Mexico temperatures and hurricanes over the years with nothing like AOC\u2019s claimed climate impact.  Take a look:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As Marc Morano said on the Joe Piscopo show<\/a>, \u201cevery crisis is an opportunity to exploit the climate agenda.\u201d They don\u2019t want you to know, for instance, that hurricanes striking the United States are not only occurring at normal rates historically, but that we recently enjoyed long stretches of historically low hurricane activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hurricanes are natural and frequently tragic.  Our thoughts and prayers go out to those in Florida, North Carolina and other places recently hit by them. Shame on Kamala, AOC and others on the Green-Left for using such tragic events to score political points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hurricanes Helene and Milton dealt Florida a potent one-two punch of high winds and storm surge.\u00a0 Helene\u2019s dramatic rains flooded large areas of the American South.<\/p>\n

The last thing people working to rebuild needed was unscientific posturing from the climate-Left and politicians playing for advantage, but of course that\u2019s just what they got.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":347666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818542,691830745,691830869,691829890],"class_list":["post-347655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-florida","tag-hurricane-helene","tag-hurricane-milton","tag-vice-president-kamala-harris","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/0Screenshot-2024-10-19-172933.png?fit=1343%2C730&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1srl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":351480,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=351480","url_meta":{"origin":347655,"position":0},"title":"No, Hurricanes Helene and Milton Were Not \u201cSupercharged\u201d by Climate\u00a0Change","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"11\/17\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"We may live in the 21st century, but when it comes to the weather, the human mind has not evolved past Dark Age superstition.","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0difference-between-a-hurricane-and-tornado-Hurricane-Damage-scaled-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0difference-between-a-hurricane-and-tornado-Hurricane-Damage-scaled-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0difference-between-a-hurricane-and-tornado-Hurricane-Damage-scaled-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0difference-between-a-hurricane-and-tornado-Hurricane-Damage-scaled-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/0difference-between-a-hurricane-and-tornado-Hurricane-Damage-scaled-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":348333,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=348333","url_meta":{"origin":347655,"position":1},"title":"Gov. 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