For nearly two decades politicians have dummied down the response to severe storms, hurricanes, and tornado outbreaks. The message from the 1960s has always been the same, this is serious and everyone needs to take it seriously. The politics of the petroleum industry has prolonged the emissions even increasing them and placing the entire planet Earth in peril.
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The expression "500-year storm" is losing its meaning: Houston has suffered five of them in a five-year span. California's wildfires — ignited by 1,200 lightning strikes in a 72-hour span — produced the second- and third-worst blazes in state history, even without the aid of the fall's strong Santa Ana winds. The Atlantic coast has seen 10 named storms so far this season, a mark typically hit in October, and upcoming storms are projected to be twice as intense as usual, because of extremely warm ocean waters. Hurricanes have done $335 billion in damage over the past three years, compared with $38.2 billion across the entire 1980s, adjusted for inflation. Climate disasters of all types inflicted $807 billion in damage during the 2010s, the hottest decade on record....
