Come Helene With High Water

Serial liar Trump recommits to climate denial amid fossil-fueled rubble

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I haven’t been paying attention to the news, but last week was Climate Week, so lemme check what happened . . . oh.

Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is channeling donations and volunteers to local organizations throughout the region devastated by Helene.

2.1 million electric customers remain without power, from #Florida up to #Ohio , due to #HurricaneHelene . With 763k out in #SouthCarolina 573k out in #Georgia 458k out in #NorthCarolina . [2024-09-30 10:05 AM]

In the other big news of Climate Week, the British government finally took strong action to put climate criminals behind bars. Well, they sentenced two climate activists who threw soup on glass-paneled paintings to two years in prison. Take that, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland!

So maybe not precisely the fossil-fuel-industry criminals profiting from climate destruction, but if you think about it backwards, it’s progress!

Felon and serial liar Donald Trump recommitted to climate denial today while touring the devastated town of Valdosta, Ga. He also said “nobody thought” Helene could happen “so late in the season for hurricanes.”1  

While Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are mobilizing the massive state and federal relief effort, both the White House and Harris for President communications teams are bizarrely silent on the climate pollution responsible for this disaster. The Harris campaign really needs to let its climate engagement team—which has a national climate organizing event with Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Gov. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) tonight— take the wheel.

Let’s see how the rest of the world has been celebrating Climate Week: there are catastrophic, deadly floods in Nepal and Typhoon Krathon is striking the Philippines. Millions are stranded and thousands dead from extreme flooding in Nigeria, Mali, Senegal and Chad. Floods and mudslides have killed more than 200 in Myanmar. Record floods in Thailand have displaced over 150,000 families. Typhoon Yagi also hit Vietnam, Laos, and the Philippines, affecting millions. In central Europe, Storm Boris dumped a month’s worth of rain in one day, pounding Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary with deadly floods.

Finally, a truly bipartisan issue.

Hamilton Nolan has some thoughts on bad climate socialism.

There’s a giant chemical fire in Conyers, Ga. Toxic smoke is spewing out of the burning Biolab facility and spreading haze over suburban Atlanta.

Andrew Yamakawa Elrod holds a wake for Bidenomics.

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1  It is the middle of the hurricane season.

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