Man Sets Himself on Fire to Protest Climate Change as Media Says People are Responsible for Hurricanes

The media is just going to lie to you.

They will say that you’re doing evil and it’s causing the weather to change.

This is no different than the Aztec priests telling people that if they don’t do human sacrifices, the sun will go black.

Reuters:

After a quiet start to the season, Hurricane Fiona slammed into Puerto Rico and then battered the Dominican Republic, leaving more than 1 million people without running water or power.

By Saturday the storm had hit Canada’s east coast, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses.

While scientists haven’t yet determined whether climate change influenced Fiona’s strength or behavior, there’s strong evidence that these devastating storms are getting worse.

Here’s why.

IS CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECTING HURRICANES?

Yes, climate change is making hurricanes wetter, windier and altogether more intense. There is also evidence that it is causing storms to travel more slowly, meaning they can dump more water in one place.

If it weren’t for the oceans, the planet would be much hotter due to climate change. But in the last 40 years, the ocean has absorbed about 90% of the warming caused by heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions. Much of this ocean heat is contained near the water’s surface. This additional heat can fuel a storm’s intensity and power stronger winds.

Climate change can also boost the amount of rainfall delivered by a storm. Because a warmer atmosphere can also hold more moisture, water vapor builds up until clouds break, sending down heavy rain.

During the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season — one of the most active on record — climate change boosted hourly rainfall rates in hurricane-force storms by 8%-11%, according to an April 2022 study in the journal Nature Communications.

The world has already warmed 1.1 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial average. Scientists at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) expect that, at 2C of warming, hurricane wind speeds could increase by up to 10%.

NOAA also projects the proportion of hurricanes that reach the most intense levels — Category 4 or 5 — could rise by about 10% this century. To date, less than a fifth of storms have reached this intensity since 1851.

HOW ELSE IS CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECTING STORMS?

The typical “season” for hurricanes is shifting, as climate warming creates conditions conducive to storms in more months of the year. And hurricanes are also making landfall in regions far outside the historic norm.

It’s unclear, however, if climate change is affecting the number of hurricanes that form each year. One team of scientists recently reported detecting a rise in frequency for North Atlantic hurricanes over the last 150 years, according to their study published in December in Nature Communications. But research is still ongoing.

Saying people are changing the climate by driving cars and flying on planes is like blaming ice cream for sunburns.

“Oh, but how do you explain that every time we have ice cream, we just so happen to end up with a sunburn!?”

Saving the planet from a Climate Change Apocalypse is such a very real necessity that Greta Thunberg is willing to allocate one full day a week for it. Do you know of any other thing so important that a teenager would sacrifice her Fridays for it?