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Miami’s mayor on Hurricane Irma: ‘If this isn’t climate change, I don’t know what is’
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Posted on 09/09/2017 10:10:00 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Miami’s mayor on Hurricane Irma: ‘If this isn’t climate change, I don’t know what is’

By David Smiley

September 08, 2017 4:21 PM

Miami’s Republican mayor called on President Donald Trump and the head of the Environmental Protection Agency Friday to acknowledge that climate change is playing a role in the extreme weather that has slammed his city and the continental U.S. this summer.

Speaking from Miami’s Emergency Operations Center in downtown, where the city’s senior public safety and political authorities will ride out Category 4 Hurricane Irma this weekend, Mayor Tomás Regalado told the Miami Herald that he believes warming and rising seas are threatening South Florida’s immediate and long-term future.

“This is the time to talk about climate change. This is the time that the president and the EPA and whoever makes decisions needs to talk about climate change,” said Regalado, who flew back to Miami from Argentina Friday morning to be in the city during the storm. “If this isn’t climate change, I don’t know what is. This is a truly, truly poster child for what is to come.”

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To: Sub-Driver
Throwing a damper on the "it's going to be the worst of all time" crowds climate sacrament, Irma has been downgraded to Cat 3.
21 posted on 09/09/2017 10:16:45 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: Sub-Driver

“If this isn’t an example of the need for term limits...I don’t know what is”.


22 posted on 09/09/2017 10:16:48 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Sub-Driver

He’s right. He doesn’t know. Much of anything apparently.


23 posted on 09/09/2017 10:17:15 AM PDT by KyCats
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To: Sub-Driver

I think the mayor is correct in terms of the second part of his statement.


24 posted on 09/09/2017 10:17:29 AM PDT by CheneyClone
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To: Sub-Driver

This is a weather change, from clement to inclement. It will son be clement again.


25 posted on 09/09/2017 10:17:46 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (Those are my principles, and if you do not like them...well I have others. - Groucho Marx)
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To: Sub-Driver

It’s all that wicked CO2 bringing us nemesis.

No. It’s a hurricane that actually struck land. Irma didn’t smell the CO2 and say hey, I’m going to barrel down on it. Irma is sun and water vapor powered, same as other hurricanes.

On earth, it isn’t even possible to get enough CO2 in the air to swamp out the effect of the water vapor. All our puny little fires combined can’t do it.


26 posted on 09/09/2017 10:17:50 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Well the climate did just change in Miami. Yesterday it was to be utterly destroyed by a hurricane, now it looks like some wind and rain.


27 posted on 09/09/2017 10:18:25 AM PDT by keat
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To: Sub-Driver

It could be climate change.

It is NOT MAN made climate change.

Last Ice age was NOT man made climate change.

The Global warming which followed and melted 4 mile thick ice glaciers on top of Chicagoland was NOT man made either.

Conclusion: Climate change began 5,000,000,000 years ago.
Man could become extinct in a few million years. Climate change will go on for 5 Billion years after man becomes extinct.


28 posted on 09/09/2017 10:18:51 AM PDT by entropy12 (Why Republicans woo & pursue people who will never vote for them (liberals & media) ?)
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To: skimbell

Praise the Lord for small favors, I guess. Irma might actually underwhelm.


29 posted on 09/09/2017 10:19:23 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I’ve been hearing people at work say that same stupid thing.


30 posted on 09/09/2017 10:19:59 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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‘If this isn’t climate change, I don’t know what is’

Apparently he doesn't know what is.

31 posted on 09/09/2017 10:20:01 AM PDT by tbpiper
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To: Sub-Driver

Let the earth be the earth, and let God run the show. It’s all good, it’s all God. Any man trying to control the climate (or even the weather) is trying to act as a god....and that never works out.


32 posted on 09/09/2017 10:20:26 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: keat

Praise the Lord for BIG favors.

I guess He saw the chastisement would be lost on some fools, so He didn’t want to put the rest of us through the burden yet.


33 posted on 09/09/2017 10:20:28 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Sub-Driver
1935: “To our mind the catastrophe (hurricane) must be characterized as an act of God and was by its very nature beyond the power of man or instruments at his disposal"

2017: "Climate change! Man-made"

34 posted on 09/09/2017 10:20:43 AM PDT by HonkyTonkMan
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Time for the mayor to contribute. Turn off all electricity in Miami. Mandate that all transportation in his city is by bicycle. Ban all motors, electric, diesel, gasoline. Mandate that only sailboats can be used on his coast. Shut down Miami airport. Last but not least, put a cork in his azz.


35 posted on 09/09/2017 10:21:16 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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"Miami’s mayor on Hurricane Irma: ‘If this isn’t climate change, I don’t know what is’"

Tell that to all those Spanish galleons (& others) at the bottom of the ocean in that area...you know, the one's with all those SUV's in their cargo holds!

They sank because the weather was static and the sea's were like plates of glass back then.

36 posted on 09/09/2017 10:21:59 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Sub-Driver

List of hurricanes from the past are available if the Mayor wants to look for them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Florida_hurricanes

Same for Texas.
https://www.weather.gov/media/lch/events/txhurricanehistory.pdf


37 posted on 09/09/2017 10:22:01 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Sub-Driver

....and, very often affect Florida?


38 posted on 09/09/2017 10:22:28 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Sub-Driver

The headline should be Miami Mayor Admits He Doesn’t Know.


39 posted on 09/09/2017 10:22:35 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

The mayor was elected. Those who elected this idiot must be idiots.


40 posted on 09/09/2017 10:23:14 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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