Red States and Climate Change

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BBC keeps updating the story. 24 children dead and 25 missing. What a tragedy. These children, who were at summer camp, could have been evacuated if there as a flood warning system in place.

There was a flood warning system in place. The GOP dismantled it. The MAGA voters voted for it.

We're taking a look,
We're taking a look at it.
There was a flood,
A flood involving water.

There was a lot of extra water,
So we're taking a look at it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are people back to blaming the Republican President for bad weather?
Hurricane Katrina, then Trump for COVID, not this.

This isn't hard. Trump cut staff significantly at NOAA and the National Weather Service. For people in Texas to now blame the understaffed NWS is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Climate change aside, the FORECAST was wrong and didn’t say there was going to be that much rain.

Guess who just “thinned the pack” at NOAA?

Even if you don’t believe in climate change, we need accurate weather reports. Trump changed that.

Not true, the forecast the day before absolutely said there was going to be rain AND flash flood warnings.

The warnings were low level until last minute (or after the fact).

Maybe want to revise this assertion based on actual facts?

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/05/nx-s1-5457759/texas-floods-timeline


Seems like the undermanned, understaffed NWS did it's job. Where were the Texas and county staff and their communications teams?

[Anonymous]

Blame the Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation for promoting low-tax dysfunctional state and local governments. Flash flood emergency alert systems and evacuation plans and resources are woke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Blame the Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation for promoting low-tax dysfunctional state and local governments. Flash flood emergency alert systems and evacuation plans and resources are woke.

MAGA takes dedicated, conscientious, hard working federal scientists and engineers and modelers, and not understanding or caring about their work, proceeds to demonize, smear and slander them, call them lazy, corrupt, woke, “DEI hires” and then defund them, drive them out, lay them off.

[Anonymous]

It's too late to reverse climate change, the Heritage Foundation and Republicans have seen to that.

Red states and everyone else are going to have to soldier on with extreme weather and no FEMA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's too late to reverse climate change, the Heritage Foundation and Republicans have seen to that.

Red states and everyone else are going to have to soldier on with extreme weather and no FEMA.

Then people should stop trying to pass laws if it is too late. Enough with the '10 years to save the planet.'
Adaptation should be the priority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's too late to reverse climate change, the Heritage Foundation and Republicans have seen to that.

Red states and everyone else are going to have to soldier on with extreme weather and no FEMA.

Then people should stop trying to pass laws if it is too late. Enough with the '10 years to save the planet.'
Adaptation should be the priority.

Significant climate change is baked in, but that doesn't mean we can't make it worse!

We need to adapt AND we have to stop adding to harm.

[Anonymous]

Do you think the Warning Coordination Meteorologist position at the Austin/San Antonio office was important?

He left in April, part of DOGE cuts,which offered early retirement to reduce the workforce. It’s now vacant, part of the strategy of reducing staff through attrition.

[Anonymous]

Going after weather forecasting was in Project 2025, on page 674. Break up NOAA and the NWS, because together they form a “colossal industry” that drives the “climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future U.S. prosperity”. Translation: Tracking and reporting extreme weather events is bad for oil & gas profits.

The Dickey Amendment did the same thing for the NRA in 1996, suppressing research into gun violence. Same thing is happening at the CDC. Research into infectious diseases is being slowed or censored, they’re not allowed to submit to outside journals, and there are new restrictions on what they’re allowed to communicate to the public.

They want us all in the dark, unable to ask questions, unable to accurately assess threats, with no objective scientific data to help make sound public health decisions.

Project 2025: kill the messenger, and anyone or anything that stands in the way of power and profit for oligarchs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Blame the Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation for promoting low-tax dysfunctional state and local governments. Flash flood emergency alert systems and evacuation plans and resources are woke.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Going after weather forecasting was in Project 2025, on page 674. Break up NOAA and the NWS, because together they form a “colossal industry” that drives the “climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future U.S. prosperity”. Translation: Tracking and reporting extreme weather events is bad for oil & gas profits.

The Dickey Amendment did the same thing for the NRA in 1996, suppressing research into gun violence. Same thing is happening at the CDC. Research into infectious diseases is being slowed or censored, they’re not allowed to submit to outside journals, and there are new restrictions on what they’re allowed to communicate to the public.

They want us all in the dark, unable to ask questions, unable to accurately assess threats, with no objective scientific data to help make sound public health decisions.

Project 2025: kill the messenger, and anyone or anything that stands in the way of power and profit for oligarchs.

Can you please run for office? Very well said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unlike you I care about those missing girls. Neither you nor your fellow progressive deplorables have even expressed any concern for them at all in this thread. Maybe it’s because they’re (presumably) Texans.

Just look at what you’ve become.

Let’s all hope those girls are found safely. Until then, you can keep spinning this for political gains.

Trump golfed and ate ice cream instead of visiting Texas and hasn’t expressed one word of sympathy to the families. I’m sure you’re disgusted with him too, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's too late to reverse climate change, the Heritage Foundation and Republicans have seen to that.

Red states and everyone else are going to have to soldier on with extreme weather and no FEMA.

Yes, the sky is falling, we are all doomed, just like in the 1970s when the Ice Age was coming to put us all in deep freeze.

And just like Harold Camping sagely declaring the end of the world, so too are The Climate Prophets of Doom declaring the end of the world.

There will be a climate disaster one day:

And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood — Revelation 8:8

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's too late to reverse climate change, the Heritage Foundation and Republicans have seen to that.

Red states and everyone else are going to have to soldier on with extreme weather and no FEMA.

Then people should stop trying to pass laws if it is too late. Enough with the '10 years to save the planet.'
Adaptation should be the priority.

Significant climate change is baked in, but that doesn't mean we can't make it worse!

We need to adapt AND we have to stop adding to harm.

DP.

I agree—we should do those things.

Reality, however, is that we will not. Zero percent likelihood of collective action. That’s been clearly demonstrated.

We need to recognize this and shift focus to mitigation and adaptation. Hectoring people about climate change has proved to be totally ineffective and arguably counterproductive.