{"id":1663114,"date":"2022-09-28T18:02:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T22:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1663114"},"modified":"2022-09-28T18:04:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T22:04:30","slug":"never-let-a-devastating-natural-disaster-go-to-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/never-let-a-devastating-natural-disaster-go-to-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Let A Devastating Natural Disaster Go To Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnever-let-a-devastating-natural-disaster-go-to-waste%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1663114&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Be\u00a0prepared for Democrats to exploit the devastation\u00a0of Hurricane Ian to peddle de-modernization. And because there is no conclusive way for anyone to prove that global warming isn\u2019t triggering every natural disaster \u2014 and because nature offers a continuous flow of these terrifying events and always will \u2014 the exploitation will never stop.<\/p>\n<p>The effort began in earnest after 2005\u2019s Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3 hurricane that devastated an unprepared New Orleans. Just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lzx24hw_K5I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">watch<\/a> Al Gore, with his grade-school \u201cscience\u201d charts, cartoonish satellite images (water, the color of fire!), and didactic tone, emotionally manipulating audiences with images of destruction and suffering. The problem was that \u201cAn Inconvenient Truth\u201d suggested \u2014 among numerous other dire predictions that would never come to pass \u2014 that climate change had not only caused Katrina, despite negligible warming, but that it portended the dawn of an age of shocking and intense hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>After 2005, Florida didn\u2019t get hit with another hurricane until 2016 and Louisiana didn\u2019t see a major one until 2020 (<em>also<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/global-warming-causes-fewer-tropical-cyclones\/#:~:text=Global%20warming%20is%20making%20the,Monday%20in%20Nature%20Climate%20Change.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the fault<\/a> of climate change.) It is debatable that storms that do make landfall do so with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartland.org\/news-opinion\/news\/is-climate-change-worsening-hurricanes-the-evidence-says-no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more intensity<\/a> or that Category 3-plus hurricanes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bjornlomborg\/status\/1329040774844059648?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">are increasing<\/a>. Overall, the frequency of hurricanes has slightly declined since 1900. From 1851-1860, 19 hurricanes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/621238\/number-of-hurricanes-that-made-landfall-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">made landfall<\/a> in the United States. From 2011-2020, 19 hurricanes made landfall in the United States. The average per decade between 1860-2011 is about 18. In the decade of 1941-1950, 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/pastdec.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">major<\/a> hurricanes hit the United States.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHurricane Ian gets nasty quickly, turbocharged by warm water,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricanes-science-florida-storms-tampa-c872d318c12e44b7836171470cd6140d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explains<\/a> the Associated Press, which has been true since the first hurricane formed. More \u201cclimate havoc,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/27\/climate\/climate-imf-world-bank.html?smid=tw-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a> The New York Times, as Ian threatens to hit the same exact places that storms have always hit. Today\u2019s media simply can\u2019t report on any flood or tornado or hurricane or <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/22\/beware-of-brain-eating-amoebas-and-lazy-journalists-but-mostly-lazy-journalists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">brain-eating amoeba<\/a> without making it about their favorite policy hobby horse. It just <em>feels <\/em>like things\u00a0are worse, you know?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat effect does climate change have on this phenomenon?\u201d CNN\u2019s Don Lemon <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1575062381763461124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asks<\/a> Jamie Rhome, the acting director of NOAA\u2019s National Hurricane Center about Hurricane Ian. \u201cBecause it seems these storms are intensifying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think you can link climate change to any one event. On the whole, on the cumulative, climate change may be making storms worse. But to link it to any one event, I would caution against it,\u201d answers Rhome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOk, listen, I grew up there. And these storms are intensifying,\u201d responds Lemon.<\/p>\n<p><em>He grew up there.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Joy Behar, cohost of \u201cThe View,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/the-view-host-joy-behar-slams-desantis-climate-change-comments-as-hurricane-ian-closes-florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a> Wednesday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he is \u201cnot in the pews of the church of the Global Warming Leftists.\u201d \u201cThis is what he thinks about climate change. And now, his state is getting hit with one of the worst hurricanes that we will ever see!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>This a quite common attack, but it\u2019s a non sequitur. Even if we accepted every alarmist forecast about anthropogenic global warming, and embraced the Democrats\u2019 net-zero plan and banned gas-powered engines and fossil fuels by 2050 or 2030 or even 2024, the temperature wouldn\u2019t be any different today. Forget India and China, not a single major economy that signed onto the Paris Accord <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/09\/15\/world\/climate-pledges-insufficient-cat-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has met its goals<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, the underlying claim is also untrue. Since Behar\u2019s birth in 1942, Florida has seen 48 hurricanes <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_United_States_hurricanes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">make landfall<\/a>. Three of them have been Category 5 (so worse), nine of them have been Category 4 (including Ian), and 11 of them Category 3. Granted, Behar was not around for 1900\u2019s Great Galveston hurricane, which hit eight years before Model Ts began emitting carbon into the air; it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/11\/30\/566950355\/the-tempest-at-galveston-we-knew-there-was-a-storm-coming-but-we-had-no-idea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">likely<\/a> killed somewhere around 10,000 people in Texas. The 1926 Great Miami hurricane killed 372, causing an estimated, inflation-adjusted $164 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/mfl\/miami_hurricane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in damage.<\/a> Only around 150,000 people lived in all of Dade County back in those days. The Great Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurricanescience.org\/history\/storms\/1930s\/LaborDay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was tied<\/a> with 2019\u2019s Hurricane Dorian for strongest maximum sustained landfall winds (185 mph). Those were pretty bad storms, as were many others.<\/p>\n<p>Critics will, no doubt, point out the rising cost of insurance payments due to hurricanes and other natural disasters. This is largely due to the concentration of people and wealth\u00a0in coastal regions, a consequence of both rising population and wealth, and\u00a0federal insurance programs that incentivize people to take on this risk. Critics will also point out that hurricanes are far less deadly now than they have been in the past because we\u2019ve instituted warning systems and improved infrastructure and preparedness. And that\u2019s right. Acclimatizing to the realities of climate is far cheaper and more effective than any state-compelled dismantling of modernity. No amount of scaremongering can change that reality.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist. Harsanyi is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of five books\u2014the most recent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eurotrash-America-Reject-Failed-Continent\/dp\/0063066017\/\">Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent<\/a>. His work has appeared in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reason, New York Post, and numerous other publications. Follow him on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/\">@davidharsanyi<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be\u00a0prepared for Democrats to exploit the devastation\u00a0of Hurricane Ian to peddle de-modernization. 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