Trump Unleashes Whirlwind of Lies About Hurricanes

By Mort Kondracke
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This election’s “October surprise” arrived in September in the form of Hurricane Helene, followed this week by Hurricane Milton.

Helene killed 213 people, making it the second-deadliest storm in the last 50 years. And it could cost up to $250 billion in property damage and economic losses. Milton was expected to be even more “Biblical,” but turned out not to be. Its still-substantial human and economic tolls are yet to be calculated.

The political message of these storms should be, “It’s Climate Change, Stupid,” and should inure to the benefit of Democrats, who believe that global warming is real, “man-made” by fossil fuels’ pumping tons of carbon dioxide into the earth’s atmosphere, and that action must be taken to shift to cleaner forms of energy.

This is opposed to most of the Republican Party, whose leader, Donald Trump, has labeled climate change a “hoax” and whose energy policy is “drill, baby, drill” for oil and natural gas.

https://www.postalley.org/2024/10/12/trump-unleashes-whirlwind-of-lies-about-hurricanes/