Comments by "" (@snowcat9308) on "WFLA News Channel 8" channel.

As a wise man once said, the Sun is a deadly laser.
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Yeah I know it's super weird. It's almost like the climate is changing or something. We should really find a name for that.
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FEMA is a federal disaster response agency. I have no idea why you think migrants are taking money away from FEMA when Trump literally said that he was going to cut funding to federal agencies across the board. If FEMA has money problems now, do you think less funding will fix that?
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Yes, actually! Rich fossil fuel billionaires refuse to let their industries die because they are more interested in collecting money than they are preserving the climate. In a roundabout way, the billionaire class IS making these hurricanes. Please, if you are going to be conspiracy-minded, direct your pattern-seeking behavior where it's needed. Conspiracies are real, and there really is an ultra-wealthy ruling class conspiring against YOU for THEIR OWN INTERESTS.
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Also, access to aid is less of a money issue, and more of a logistics issue. Many of the communities affected by Helene (and certainly the upcoming storm) are rural areas. Some of these areas might be low-lying swampland, densely wooded areas, or rural land up in the mountains.
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@sawtooth4615 It's weird that you're whining about FEMA not having enough money while simultaneously towing the line of the party that wants to defund federal agencies. How does that stack up in your head? Or are you just okay with being inconsistent if it means getting your favorite ultra-wealthy billionaire in office.
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@sawtooth4615 This whole concern comes from the fact that FEMA has about $20 billion of funding, whereas the projected damage caused by Helene is upwards of $35 billion (last I checked). That doesn't mean that Helene survivors are cooked (no, that's thanks to Milton), but just that Helene is a particularly devastating storm. For God's sake we are the most powerful country in the world. One or two bad hurricanes are nowhere near close enough to bankrupt our government.
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We didn't send all of our money to Ukraine. This country has a 6 trillion dollar GDP with more than 2 trillion of that going to the government for spending.... EVERY YEAR. Oh no!! We only have 97% of our budget left to deal with literally everything else in the country! What will we do! Oh wait! Here comes our brave hero Donald Trump, here to drain the swamp! Wait... he's saying he wants to defund all federal agencies across the board? But... FEMA is a federal agency? Now wait a second...
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No they're not. That lie was probably started by rich fossil fuel tycoons who want poor people like you to suffer while they get rich. And when we damage our climate beyond repair, who do you think will be the first aboard Elon's rockets? Not you, that's for sure. Take the people you get your information from, and follow their sources. When their sources run out or become circular, follow the money. You'll find yourself staring at the Koch brothers more often than you'd like.
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@gabrielclark1425 TL;DR - Ocean warming is a slow, long-term effect, not just something that popped up this month! The reason our oceans are getting warmer and warmer is because of the "greenhouse effect" that "greenhouse gasses" (like Methane and Carbon Dioxide) make. Kinda like how the glass windows on your car let sunlight in to heat up the inside, but then trap that heat and make it REALLY hot in the summer. Or.. y'know.. the glass windows on a greenhouse, the namesake of the effect. The warming of our atmosphere is, in turn, warming our oceans. As years get hotter and hotter, our oceans have more and more heat energy to donate to forming storms. Oceans are big, though, so these effects are the result of long-term changes to weather currents and ocean temperature. If we somehow "turned off" Climate Change right now, we'd still be dealing with these negative effects for a few years before things started to calm down. I am oversimplifying (because meteorology is incredibly complex and I'm certainly not an expert) and probably getting some things wrong, so I encourage you to do some research on your own!
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