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Hurricane Harvey and the climate change alarm bells

By Washington Examiner

Published September 1, 2017 4:01am ET

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Hurricane Harvey and the climate change alarm bells — No serious person believes that climate policy could bring us into a brave new world of fewer hurricanes. And if the number of large hurricanes we get is determined by policy, Trump ought to do whatever George W. Bush did in 2006 that put the brakes on powerful hurricanes for a decade. (Kim Brent/The Beaumont Enterprise via AP) | Kim Brent

Chris Cuomo, the amateur climatologist and brother of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, discussed Hurricane Harvey on his CNN show this week. Cuomo suggested that human emissions of carbon dioxide may be “why these storms happen.”

We know cable news suffers from a short attention span, so we’d like to suggest Cuomo take time over the long weekend to read up on hurricanes that occurred even before the Industrial Revolution.

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