Does the University of St. Thomas thermal sciences professor John Abraham actually believe Florida Panhandle residents deserved to get hit by a catastrophic hurricane for electing “climate deniers?”
“Victims of Hurricane Michael voted for climate deniers,” reads the headline an article by Abraham, published in The Guardian Thursday. “Elections have consequences. Denying science has consequences. And we are reaping what we sow,” the subhead reads.
Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle Wednesday at just below Category 5 strength.
The storm rapidly intensified as it approached the Florida coast, sparking evacuations and emergency declarations. Michael is one of the strongest hurricanes to make U.S. landfall, according to experts.
Despite the lack of science to support for his case, Abraham blames Michael’s intensity on man-made global warming, leading to his subsequent claim that southern voters brought this upon themselves by voting Republicans into office.
“It is a wonder that a state like Florida, which will get pummeled by Michael, could vote for someone that denies climate change,” Abraham wrote, pointing to Florida GOP politicians like Gov. Rick Scott and Sen. Marco Rubio.
Abraham’s argument is that unless Republican “climate deniers” are voted out of office, more hurricanes will bring more death and destruction to the southeastern U.S., which tends to vote GOP lawmakers into office.
“Climate deniers will try to say this article is gleeful about a hurricane. It is not,” the Minnesota professor claimed. “First of all, this hurricane and all hurricanes that hit land can cause death and destruction. I pray that people heed warnings and get out of the way. I hope people stay safe, regardless of their understanding of climate change and its effect on storms.”
However, Abraham goes on to write that “elections have consequences and if we as a society want to create a better world and reduce climate change, we have to vote for people who understand science, who believe in facts.”
“Climate deniers are making these storms worse by stopping action on climate change. What the hell do we expect to happen when the deniers are writing the laws?” Abraham wrote.
The main problem with Abraham’s argument, however, is there’s little to no evidence global warming is making hurricanes more intense or frequent.
The United Nation’s latest climate report, released Sunday, found there’s little to no evidence global warming is making hurricanes more extreme or intense.
“Numerous studies towards and beyond AR5 have reported a decreasing trend in the global number of tropical cyclones and/or the globally accumulated cyclonic energy,” the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report found.
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If Clinton had been installed in the White House, the amount of ‘hot air’ coming from Washington DC would have created a high pressure barrier that covered the entire continental US – no storm could cross the coast.
We need to remember the source of the claim that anthropological climate change is making extreme weather events more intense and frequent. When it became obvious that the world wasn’t warming as the UN models predicted, they changed the name of the phony problem from global warming to climate change. With no data the claim was made that climate change was causing extreme weather events to become worse. Even the IPCC disagrees with this. However, once they have something that supports their cause, the liberals will not let go of it.
Now consider the impact that Florida voters would have even if climate change was increasing extreme weather events. The United States has reduced its carbon dioxide emission more than most nations in Europe. So how would the US not following the climate change agenda impact weather any more than Germany or Poland?
Oh look a real life Nutty Professor although Julius Kelp look far more intelligent
Vote liberal. Wish upon a star. Buy a lottery ticket.
Are there more Professors these days?
We get drumbeat of CAGW on BBC TV & Radio consistently and then found out that BBC’s pension schemes are/were linked to pension fund is a member of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, wondering if that is still the case?
Additionally BBC & the OU seem very much in bed together on this issue, probably money in there also!
He sounds as stupid as other crack-pots like James Lovelock,E.O. Wilson,Peter Singer,Al Gore,Leonardo DiCaprio,Laurie David,David Suzuki and Bill Nye
I feel sorry for any person having to listen to this dip shit professor .
Yes students just turn over mommy and daddy’s wealth and we will set the earths thermostat and even stop hurricanes . Universities have turned into very expensive brain washing holding tanks .
Kid you want to get a head walk right out that door . These jack asses will ruin you .
Is this idiot being allowed to teach his mindless crap to the students?!
The idiocy of this so-called professor is astounding. So is he saying that had the US elected Clinton this hurricane wouldn’t have even happened or would have been weaker? Exactly why would that be the case? Would she have been able to stop the creation of hurricanes the same way that Obama claimed to be able to stop the rise of the seas? (I don’t remember that the sea levels stopped rising while he was president but that’s a story for another day.)
Professor Abraham from what tree did this nut fall from? he is totaly out of his mind he sounds as rediculous as James Lovelock who came up with this Gaia poppycock and Bill Nye here we have another nutcase who belongs in a padded cell along with the guy who thinks he is Napoion