The United States is getting slammed by a stretch of weather extremes, from flooding rain to record heat and late-season snow.

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    Its not climate its just weather, bro. The climate has always been changing, bro. Solar? The sun doesn’t even shine at night, bro. Your insurance company is just ripping you off, bro. Not every species deserves to make it, bro. How about this April snowball, bro?

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        But if you press him, he probably thinks it’s because it’s controlled by, you know, the globalists! The George Soros people 🤦‍♂️

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        Yet he’s likely also opposed to getting rid of health insurance companies, because they aren’t ripping you off. Not like tax-funded health care would.

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    Messing with the jet stream is terrifying.

    means you get a lot of extremes next to each other,” Maue said. Storm fronts coming from the Pacific hit that high pressure heat dome in the Southwest and are pushed north to climb that mountainous jet stream peak, “grab access to that cold air reservoir up there” and bring it back down south down the other side of the hill, he said.

    Numerous studies have connected unusual jet stream and polar vortex activity to shrinking Arctic sea ice and human-caused climate change.

    The article doesn’t talk about impact on this year’s crops, but I can’t imagine this is good for agriculture.

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      Ask any old farmer about “hardiness zones”, they’ve been creeping northwards for decades.

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      Last year most of the fields around me turned to slop as it was too wet for many weeks, and most fields couldn’t get equipment through the mud

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      “The article doesn’t talk about impact on this year’s crops, but I can’t imagine this is good for agriculture.”

      Good, fuck the farmers, they deserve this most on top of their bankruptcies.

      They have voted for this for generations.

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    Good. Everything is deserved. This is what we get for letting uneducated people vote and lead countries who in turn underfund education and perpetuate the problem. We absolutely live in Idiocracy.

    As Tool once said:

    ‘Cause mom’s gonna fix it all soon. Mom’s comin’ 'round to put it back the way it ought to be.

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        And the giant multibillion dollar corporations that feed them fake bullshit.

        Remember when trump said there were legal post birth abortions? The media shrugged it off despite the millions of hours of coverage of joe biden being old.

        Remember when the first tranche of epstein files were released and it was alleged trump was on a boat where an infant was killed?

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    It’s going to be alright. They plan to fix this. See they are going to dismantle NOAA and every other organization capable of forecasting the weather…

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      Knowing things is “woke” and now considered doubleplusungood.

      Just wait until PEDOnald and his crime wave unleash Gen Alpha / Gen Z against any professors from departments considered politically incorrect according to the Drumpfghanistan regime.

      They’ll get to wear a dunce cap and have a struggle session to explain how they wronged America, etc…the conservatives practically ache to reenact some of the very worst aspects of Communist regimes, including Lysenkoism, and the struggle sessions and/or disappearing of inconvenient experts would be something they would delight in.

      Would not be surprised if this shitty government were to make anti-evolution xtian theme parks like Ark Encounter into National monuments in order to prop up Young Earth Creationist bullshit, too…

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    It’s wild. I complained to a friend the other day. I said “This winter has been weird. Maybe that whole thing about global warming was right”

    The dude was incredulous.

    “I don’t know about that” he said. And then dropped an entire ten minutes of absolute nonsense defending why climate change is fake.

    Like, mother fucker this has been established for decades at this point and you have seen what’s been happening! To say it’s widely accepted is an absolute understatement!

    The blind eye folks are are willing to turn is insane at this point. My comment was just a lead in to gauge what the current response is.

    I think we are absolutely fucked.

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    You see, the jet stream used to be a mostly horizontal line.

    But now, the jet stream is more… “Jeremy Bearimy”.

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    Does this mean winter is gonna show up or what?!?!

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    I mean, the US is geographically huge, even just the continental US. You’re bound to get all these and more on a spring day across the whole country.

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      Agreed! These Once In A Lifetime Weather events are NORMAL and TOTALLY out of Our Control! The US is BIG!

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      You do but usually not this many at once and especially not after breaking so many record high temps in the last year.

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      Which is why all of these events are “once in a hundred year” occurrences all happening at the same time and for not the first time this year, let alone the past 5.