Tornadoes Are Not the Sign of a Climate-Change Apocalypse

Over the weekend, deadly tornadoes devastated towns and communities in Kentucky and elsewhere. As of this writing, there have been 100 confirmed deaths, and more are likely to come. Thousands are without power and water. The images show a staggering tragedy.

What they don’t show is an especially unique tragedy. Whatever your position is on climate change, pretending that natural disasters can be stopped if only we adopted the Green New Deal policies is both risible and cynical. And yet, this didn’t stop President Joe Biden from exploiting the deaths to push his climate agenda. “This is going to be our new normal,” FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell added, in what has become the perfunctory politicization of every natural disaster. But, of course, “the new normal” means historically low deaths from natural disasters and extreme weather. Despite the Democrats’ cataclysmic rhetoric, Americans are safer than ever from extreme climate.

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David Harsanyi

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Over the weekend, deadly tornadoes devastated towns and communities in Kentucky and elsewhere. As of this writing, there have been 100 confirmed deaths, and more are likely to come. Thousands are without power and water. The images show a staggering tragedy.

What they don’t show is an especially unique tragedy. Whatever your position is on climate change, pretending that natural disasters can be stopped if only we adopted the Green New Deal policies is both risible and cynical. And yet, this didn’t stop President Joe Biden from exploiting the deaths to push his climate agenda. “This is going to be our new normal,” FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell added, in what has become the perfunctory politicization of every natural disaster. But, of course, “the new normal” means historically low deaths from natural disasters and extreme weather. Despite the Democrats’ cataclysmic rhetoric, Americans are safer than ever from extreme climate.