Prominent conservatives are becoming hurricane truthers

[TomCADem]

Remember last year when right wingers denounced hurricane warnings as part of a liberal conspiracy?

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/07/496996886/matt-drudge-suggests-government-may-be-lying-about-hurricane-matthew

Well, they are at it again denouncing hurricane preparation efforts as sensationalism.

https://thinkprogress.org/prominent-conservatives-voices-say-irma-is-being-hyped-up-to-promote-climate-change-lie-40940fc92ae9/

Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh would like you to know that, despite the fact he that he is not a meteorologist, he is right about Hurricane Irma and how it is not going to hit South Florida and the meteorologists and lamestream media are wrong. Not only are they wrong, but Limbaugh is pretty sure they’re hyping up the storm to prove that climate change is, in fact, real.

“I am not the National Hurricane Center. I am not a climatologist or meteorologist,” Limbaugh said on his show Tuesday. “All I do is analyze the data that they publish. Just as I am the go-to tech guy in my family and here on the staff, when it comes to a hurricane bearing down on South Florida, I’m the go-to guy.”

The thing is, Limbaugh said, in official meteorology circles, “you have an abundance of people who believe that man-made climate change is real.” According to the Limbaugh, even though real meteorologists are wrong about climate change, they’ll do anything they can to make people believe they’re right.

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“So there is a desire to advance this climate change agenda, and hurricanes are one of the fastest and best ways to do it. You can accomplish a lot just by creating fear and panic. You don’t need a hurricane to hit anywhere,” Limbaugh said. “All you need is to create the fear and panic accompanied by talk that climate change is causing hurricanes to become more frequent and bigger and more dangerous, and you create the panic, and it’s mission accomplished, agenda advanced.”

[shenmue]

1. This is going to hit my area tonight

Fuck these assholes.

[TomCADem]

2. Last Year: Matt Drudge Suggests Hurricane Matthew Might Be a Liberal Conspiracy

I guess true conservatives don't believe in hurricanes. Perhaps this is like test of faith like trying to get out of the boat and walk on water. If you are a real conservative, and don't believe in climate change, you laugh at the evacuation orders as just another deep state, left-wing conspiracy as Limbaugh and Alex Jones suggest.

Perhaps we will even get crazy Sandy Hook/Pizza-Gate style truthers who will come into Florida after the fact armed and ready to prove that all of the reports are bull.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/drudge-hurricane-matthew-might-be-a-liberal-conspiracy.html

Hurricane Matthew just killed more than 100 people in Haiti. When the Category 4 storm reaches the Florida coast, it will be the largest hurricane to hit the Sunshine State in a decade. Authorities are desperately trying to convince 2.5 million Americans in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina to leave their homes for safer ground.

But Matt Drudge is concerned that this “impending hurricane” narrative is a bit too convenient: One minute, Obama says climate change is real and could increase the frequency of extreme weather events; several years and hurricanes later, another extreme weather event appears just as Hillary Clinton is campaigning to succeed him.

It’s difficult to convince human beings to abandon their homes, even when their lives may depend on them doing so. By suggesting that true conservatives don’t believe in hurricanes, Drudge is making that task even more difficult.

It shouldn’t be hard to reconcile climate-change denial and acceptance of meteorology. Even Florida’s terrible governor can do it.
“If you need to evacuate and you haven’t — evacuate!” Rick Scott said Thursday. “This storm will kill you.”

[shenmue]

3. Idiots

[marybourg]

4. They apparently have nothing to lose

- their cultish followers never remember that they were lied to- and everything in the way of fame and income to gain. We even talk about them here on DU.

[janx]

5. "All I do is analyze the data that they publish."

That imbecile couldn't analyze NOAA data--or any kind of weather data-- if his life depended on it.

[tanyev]

6. Rush had a chance to prove he was right, by staying home and defiantly facing Irma.

He scuppered off with his tail between his legs.