Hurricane Beryl Makes a Mockery of Texas Climate Deniers

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1. [[No paywall]](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-07-09/hurricane-beryl-makes-a-mockery-of-texas-climate-deniers) from climate columnist Mark Gongloff:

   No other state has suffered more climate-related damage over the past several decades than Texas — not even Florida, California or Louisiana. Home-insurance costs [rose more in Texas](https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/us-homeowners-insurance-rates-jump-by-double-digits-in-2023-80057804) than in any other state last year and over the past five years, according to S&P Global. And though Governor Ron DeSantis has outlawed the mention of climate change in Florida, Texas’ aggressive pro-global-warming policies have real teeth and will continue to do real harm. Especially to Texas.

   Climate change may not have caused Hurricane Beryl, but it certainly made it more powerful and destructive. It was the [earliest Atlantic hurricane](https://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/category-5-hurricane-beryl-makes-explosive-start-2024-atlantic-season) to reach Category 5 in history and intensified rapidly three times, drawing strength from freakishly warm ocean water and favorable atmospheric conditions created by a growing La Nina phenomenon in the Pacific.

   Texas certainly prides itself on being business-friendly. But any outsider looking to build a factory or buy a house in the state should be forewarned that it takes more than lax regulation and anti-woke politics to make a welcoming environment. The literal environment has a say, too.

2. Not a very high bar for mockery in a state that loves to talk about its independent spirit, but will almost certainly suckle at the teat of Federal disaster funds.

3. Texans are learning about Karma. Shame.

4. Wow, comments are pretty cancerous*

   *Comments on the article

5. I wonder if any remaining climate change deniers are changing their minds in the face of current disasters and heat waves. Silently of course. Can’t admit you’re wrong.

6. The other part of the irony is that Texas has had, historically, outsized contributions to climate change through its oil pumps and refineries. A handful of people in Texas made a lot of money off of that industry and can now afford to let everyone else drown or die in the heat

7. This is all too funny. Many companies moved to the South a few years ago for cheaper labor and taxes. Soon they will pack up and move back North.

   If I were any State in the North I’d be advertising to companies that the climate is more stable thus keep them more profitable. Take all of them back from the Red necks

8. Yesterday I was telling people that category one hurricane packed a lot of punch. a lot of people got a reality Check yesterday.

9. Beryl obliterated my fence. If my HOA allowed it I would just wait until til hurricane season is over to replace it. I just have a feeling that this won’t be the last strike this season.

10. Time for y’all to secede from the Union?

    I’m sure your crack governor can handle it!

11. The hard part is that they don’t care that they have been made a mockery. They think everyone *else* is stupid.

    “So what? It’s not like we haven’t had hurricanes before. We get them EVERY YEAR. This isn’t any different. You stupid liberals can get all worried about normal weather, but we’re used to it, and we know this is fine.”

    And they’ll keep up with that line of stupidity until they are all homeless or dead.

12. I keep seeing redhats say the goverment is changing the weather with HAARP and chemtrails and 5g… Then in the next sentence say that humans can’t impact the climate

13. Nah, it’s god punishing them for not rising up to defeat the global woke conspiracy in time, obviously.

    /s