Hurricane Harvey could be strongest storm to hit U.S. in over a decade, and a first for Trump's FEMA

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Eric Holthaus

For those of you who remember the long post I wrote about climate change last year, this is why I was talking about “global warming is a risk multiplier for political hazards”.

The #Veep is out: Hillary Clinton chooses Tim Kaine as Vice President

[quote=“starrygordon, post:206, topic:82006, full:true”] Is everyone actually going to die if we don’t make the environment our number one priority right now? Because if they aren’t, that statement and the numerous ones like it that have become staples of political discourse for certain parties will be assigned to the Crying Wolf category by a lot of other people, and actually make it harder to do anything about the situation.[/quote] Yes. I am not a climate scientist, but I am a scientist. I…