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Climate Change is a Hoax...Wait, a Hurricane in L.A.?!?! [1]

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Date: 2023-08-17  

Having grown up and lived the majority of my adult life in southern California, the threat of earthquakes was always an accepted part of life here, from big ones like the Northridge quake of 1994 to the many minor ones that many of us just slept through (yes, weirdly, you do actually get used to them). Nowhere in my wildest dreams did I think that hurricanes were something to worry about. Yet today my workplace notified me not to come into work next week since Los Angeles and the rest of southern California might get hit by Hurricane Hilary. Where the hell did this come from?

Apparently, just last night Hilary was a tropical storm off the coast of Baja California and got upgraded to a hurricane. Fortunately, it appears that the worst of the storm will happen offshore and the residents of California and Mexico will be spared the brunt of it, but it’s still expected to cause significant problems. You can read more on it here.

As a kid who grew up in the 80s amidst the Cold War with Russia, the threat of NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION was a bigger fear than hurricanes—heck, hurricanes weren’t even on my radar. Yet here we are. And there is no doubt in my mind that there are plenty of morons who will continue to stick their head in the sand, or parrot the Orange Jackass in thinking that this is a Chinese hoax, or come up with even more creative ways to show their cognitive dissonance.

It’s up to all of us to keep spreading the word, friends. Sometimes it’s like smashing your head against a wall, but we’ve got no alternative but to keep pushing for change. Personally, I’ve got three little kids and want to leave them a somewhat habitable planet.

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