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I have a few comments. First, by area, GOP support is far larger than Democratic support. Sparsely populated rural regions tend to support the GOP, while densely populated urban areas are democratic. So if you randomly push a destructive storm through a bunch of states, you’re almost certainly going to predominantly hammer GOP-leaning areas. Second, of course we can’t control the weather. Hurricanes are natural phenomena of enormous power that far exceed any possible human influence. There’s no mechanism to control a hurricane and no evidence that anyone was trying to modify it. This is just a crazy conspiracy theory. Statements like this are tragic. This is a real human disaster and Americans are suffering. Crazy conspiracy theories don’t help people recover. And they don’t help people prepare for a hotter future with more destructive hurricanes. MTG is in a position where she could actually make a difference, so it’s disappointing to see her spending time pushing sc

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I have a few comments. First, by *area*, GOP support is far larger than Democratic support. Sparsely populated rural regions tend to support the GOP, while densely populated urban areas are democratic. So if you randomly push a destructive storm through a bunch of states, you’re almost certainly going to predominantly hammer GOP-leaning areas. Second, of course we can’t control the weather. Hurricanes are natural phenomena of enormous power that far exceed any possible human influence. There’s no mechanism to control a hurricane and no evidence that anyone was trying to modify it. This is just a crazy conspiracy theory. Statements like this are tragic. This is a real human disaster and Americans are suffering. Crazy conspiracy theories don’t help people recover. And they don’t help people prepare for a hotter future with more destructive hurricanes. MTG is in a position where she could actually make a difference, so it’s disappointing to see her spending time pushing sc
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Andrew Dessler (andrewdessler@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 07:22:15 JST Andrew Dessler

I was asked by a reporter to comment on Marjorie Taylor Greene's statement that humans control the weather. Here is what I said.

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