I posted on Facebook about hurricane Helene hitting Asheville North Carolina and how climate change resulted in one of the most severe storms and disasters we have ever seen in American history. This public school teacher in Florida proceeded to message me privately to tell me that climate change is fake, and how I need to get real because climate change supposedly had nothing to do with Western North Carolina looking like the setting for the next season of Fallout TV series. There’s no other way to put it, honestly. I have seen so many pictures and videos of the damage, it is simply astonishing. I have never seen something so gruesome and horrific in my whole life…
It’s honestly crazy that there are teachers, who are responsible for educating other people, and this is the kind of stuff that they are telling people.
Have you fact-checked the numbers? These people regularly lie and just make up numbers. Idk. I mean we also have plenty other evidence for climate change. For example humanity owns thermometers. And climate is a bit more than just category 5 hurricanes within the USA. So even if the numbers are correct… Which they probably aren’t… The glaciers are melting anyways and the more frequent droughts and floodings still happen.
Edit: I believe here are the correct numbers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_hurricanes#Climatological_statistics
One glance at the statistics with the damages should be enough. The other statistics are a bit harder to read. But since that teacher doesn’t even know the difference between the words ‘weather’ and ‘climate’… I’m not sure if they’re able to learn more about the facts, anyways.