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Dismissing the threat of climate change yesterday, Sen. Jeff Sessions declared that no devastating hurricanes have hit the U.S. since Hurricane Katrina, thank the Lord.
The Alabama Republican appears to have forgotten events such as Superstorm Sandy, the 2012 hurricane that resulted in 285 deaths, and Hurricane Ike, which left 195 people dead, including at least 112 Americans, in 2008. After Katrina, Sandy and Ike were the second and third costliest storms, respectively, in U.S. history.
Sessions made his remarks on Washington Watch, the program hosted by Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. Discussing the upcoming climate change summit in Paris, Sessions insisted that theres been almost no warming in the last 25 years and contested claims that climate change will increase the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events.
Neither have we had more hurricanes, he said. We remember Katrina, I know you do and I do too being from Mobile, but we havent had a major hurricane hit the United States in a decade. Unbelievable. Thank the Lord. The predictions were wed have more hurricanes and more devastating.
Maybe Sessions doesnt consider Sandy a major hurricane: After all, he voted against disaster relief aid to the people in affected areas, even though he has a record of requesting aid for his home state of Alabama.
- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jeff-sessions-no-major-hurricanes-ten-years-thank-lord#sthash.U16mNwCy.dpuf
underpants
(182,273 posts)Takket
(21,424 posts)"Early on October 23, Hurricane Hunters revealed the storm to have acquired record maximum sustained winds of 200 mph (325 km/h); a subsequent recon mission found a record low pressure of 879 mbar (hPa; 25.96 inHg)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Patricia
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)niyad
(112,434 posts)niyad
(112,434 posts)niyad
(112,434 posts)jeff, you clueless, fucking idiot, do us a favour and shut your ignorant yap.
ananda
(28,782 posts)There have been many major storms in the last ten years.
Orrex
(63,084 posts)Thanks for confirming, Jeff!
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)niyad
(112,434 posts)Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)Must have.
Mendocino
(7,430 posts)in a slightly different version:
Don't teach creationism in my school and I won't preach evolution in your church.
niyad
(112,434 posts)Mendocino
(7,430 posts)a bigger button.
niyad
(112,434 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)Glitterati
(3,182 posts)My friend in England ribs me about that jerk all the time.
treestar
(82,383 posts)If you're going to speak on national TV, inform yourself. Too much to ask of Republicans.
RKP5637
(67,031 posts)spanone
(135,633 posts)dear folks.....not. so.
Here in Iowa we have Senator Chuck "Lawn Mower" Grassley. That's from a few years ago when he put on an ad about how he was such a genius about mowing the lawn.
Then of course we also have Senator Joni Breadbags McCutyernutzoff Ernst. The reason I wish to the Good Lord Jesus Christ Senator Harkin had put off retirement a few years.
Botany
(70,291 posts)B2G
(9,766 posts)Botany
(70,291 posts)From wiki:
Hurricane Sandy (unofficially known as "Superstorm Sandy" was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, and the second-costliest hurricane in United States history. Classified as the eighteenth named storm, tenth hurricane and second major hurricane of the year, Sandy was a Category 3 storm at its peak intensity when it made landfall in Cuba.[1] While it was a Category 2 storm off the coast of the Northeastern United States, the storm became the largest Atlantic hurricane on record (as measured by diameter, with winds spanning 1,100 miles (1,800 km)).[3][4] Estimates as of 2015 assessed damage to have been about $75 billion (2012 USD), a total surpassed only by Hurricane Katrina.[5] At least 233 people were killed along the path of the storm in eight countries
B2G
(9,766 posts)I'm a bit of a hurricane tracking nut.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)jmowreader
(50,451 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)mass murderer. The conundrum of monotheism is that you have One "Loving" God who has the power to cause/allow/prevent everything from Susie getting an A on her math test to a particular sports team winning to Bob getting a cancer diagnosis to thousands of babies dying of famine to catastrophic natural disasters. That is one fucked-up belief system that puts all its eggs into the basket of one evil/loving bipolar deity who smacks humans around depending on its whims and the "prayers" of the species of hairless apes who currently dominate the planet.
Maybe that's why the dinosaurs went extinct -- they didn't pray enough.
tanyev
(42,358 posts)of incompetence of the Bush administration's response.