If Harvey hits Texas as an actual hurricane, which is looking likely, it will have been the first time in 9 years that Texas was hit by a hurricane. And one of the few actual hurricane strikes on the continental U.S. since 2008. If it makes it to major hurricane status (category 3+), which is a possibility, it would be the first time since Wilma in October of 2005.
So, of course, we get this
I feel sorry for those in Texas & LA who will suffer when #Harvey strikes.
Even the idiot #Trump fans who will still deny climate change.
— Randy Walters (@randywalters) August 24, 2017
and
Harvey looks bad. It also shows how the Gulf Coast, along with California, may be the place where the GOP finally cracks on climate change. https://t.co/oWwx6AnH5w
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) August 24, 2017
Might Trump take climate more seriously if someone shows him that #Harvey is threatening Houston's "Spirit of the Confederacy" monument? https://t.co/fEyczr5g56
— Andy Horowitz (@andydhorowitz) August 24, 2017
There’s plenty more on Twitter.
And from Big Joe
My forecast from last week on Climate hysteriCS with Harvey already verifying,https://t.co/rS5TfhpgQB
FLOOD DAMAGE IS DOWN OVERALL— Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) August 24, 2017
More: As you would expect, Twitter has really gone downhill now that Harvey is expected to land as a Cat 3. The first in almost 12 years. And we’re getting stuff like
Dear Trump supporters #Harvey isn't real like Climate Change. Ignore warnings & go to beach. Don't evacuate or stock food & water.
— CryBaby-Trump (@TeaTraitors) August 24, 2017
"There's no evidence for climate change," says Ted Cruz as he evacuates home because of hurricane. #Harvey
— Mara Laine (@FoundMyCarKeys) August 24, 2017
Here's why Hurricane Harvey is so scary and unprecedented. https://t.co/nlcUv3383Z via @NewRepublic
— Climate Desk (@ClimateDesk) August 24, 2017
Unprecedented. Sigh.
The warmer water of the Gulf (due to climate change) could make Hurricane Harvey a potentially catastrophic storm. https://t.co/anL8hmEEYd
— Public Citizen Texas (@PublicCitizenTX) August 24, 2017
What caused the Gulf to be so warm back during the Great Galveston hurricane of 1900?

-Elwood P. Dowd

We were supposed to have increased drought and they were supposed to last longer too. We were supposed to experience more tornadoes as well as more frequent and stronger hurricanes. When absolutely none of these occurred but in fact the numbers decreased along with the severity they are left with jumping on the very first hurricane to make landfall in over what 10 years? Then they just go nuts over it. Do any of these individuals realize just how silly they are making themselves look? But I guess when you are going to have only one chance to toot your global warming excuse me your climate change horn once every 10 years when you were told by all of these knowledge scientists that you could toot it every year maybe we should just cut them some slack and simply ignore them.
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