Weathering the Storm: Heated Debates & Cold Facts (3/19/25)

*The is the FREE archive, which includes advertisements. If you want an ad-free experience, you can subscribe below underneath the show description.A recent AP survey found that 80% of Americans report having experienced “extreme weather” over the last five years, though no definition of the term was provided, therefore leaving the question open to highly subjective answers. The report, as a result, found proof of this in the fact that responses were separated by political party lines: 90% of Democrats see this weather as caused by Climate Change while only 43% of Republicans said the same. Also reported was that 6/10 want government financial support finally in preparing for weather events, as if emergency alerts, storm shelters, etc., are unrelated to government. Nearly all respondents, however, were worried about the rising costs of these “weather events,” a key debate that always ignores location, building habits, economic trends, inflation, and the cost of goods and living habits. What this report fails to consider, besides the definition of already subjective “severe weather,” is that weather might be altered but can never ultimately be controlled by man, be it through human activity (climate change) or geo-engineering, i.e., the alternative to the former. Both views submit that nothing is natural; it’s all manmade and government can deal with it. Despite both of these views, weather related deaths have plummeted since the 1920s at a peek of 500,000 to less than 5-10,000 per year today. This is largely due to natural advances in technology and observation. That’s not to say geo-engineering is a myth, because it is NOT. But recent weather, from dust storms and fires to blizzards and tornados, have the previous ideologies in heated debate, while both neglect to acknowledge the complexity of weather, like with human health, and the power of Mother Nature. Likewise, much of these debates tend to be US-Centric, with CBS reporting that recent strong winds only extend from the Canadian border to the Mexican border. Snowfall in Chiba Prefecture Japan in mid-March is abnormal but not unheard of, and is thus seen as just the changing of the seasons. In the US, it is proof of something afoot. All of the recent “extreme weather” is also blamed for every type of weather imaginable: the same storm systems caused fires, dust storms, rain, tornadoes, snow, blizzards, and thunderstorms, not to mention heat and cold. CBS reported: “a massive storm system moving across the country unleashed winds that triggered deadly dust storms and fanned more than 100 wildfires. Forecasters assigned an unusual ‘high risk’ designation to the system, which was also blamed for icy winter weather in northern parts of the country and severe thunderstorms, including on the West Coast, on Sunday…. Winds gusting up to 80 mph were predicted from the Canadian border to Texas.”It should lastly be noted that most fires in the United States are started by cooking methods, or other causes like arson, with less than 5% in most states coming from anything natural or climate rated. -FREE ARCHIVE (w. ads)SUBSCRIPTION ARCHIVEX / TWITTER