The Aftermath and Myths of Hurricane Helene - The Climate Realism Show #129

Hurricane Helene will go down as one of the most-significant natural disasters (so far) in US History, and certainly of the 21st century. While the Florida panhandle was walloped when it made landfall, the storm did most of its shocking damage far from shore in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina. Entire towns were wiped clean off the surface of the earth and close to 200 lost their lives. The storm was bad, but the media has been spreading myths about both the flooding’s historic nature, and the causes of that flooding. Human-caused “climate change” had nothing to do with it, as The Climate Realism Show crew and special guest Joe Bastardi will explain. Bastardi, chief forecaster for WeatherBELL Analytics, is one of America’s leading hurricane experts and historians, and we are thrilled to welcome him back to the show.

The Heartland Institute’s H. Sterling Burnett, Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely will also cover some of the Crazy Climate News of the Week, including how badly EVs and hurricanes mix, who is funding the pernicious climate alarm narrative globally, whether humans can “steer” hurricanes, and more.

Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET so you can leave your questions and comments for the show in the chat.

[Beefyfarmer]

Does any of the panel think it possible that the Hunga Tonga volcano adding approx 15% of water vapour to the atmosphere has had any effect on these weather events?

[diannalaubenberg]

The Gulf is ALWAYS warm during hurricane season.

[annmariemichaels]

Remember when YouTube showed the thumbs down count

[debravictoria]

There is a first hand account on Peak Prosperity channel, from North Carolina. There are places that were not ready for Helene because they are in places that are not known to be affected by hurricanes.

[purplechum]

Electric golf carts are great! Show there is hope.

[asimplehorseman]

Helene was 100% without a doubt engineered!! The evidence is clear on that. Now go back to sleep!!

[mh]

Love the show. I had a thought the other day while on a long drive about the climate alarmists that want less people in the world. If you encounter one ask them why do they want it? So we have fewer people and then they can pollute all they want and eat all the food they want without any concern for the world? That sounds pretty anti-Earth to me.

[debravictoria]

That's a lot of trees in Pennsylvania. Wasn't Bgates talking about burying trees to cut carbon? Would that be a new job market, or will robots do that one too?🤖

[oshitt]

If you had a few 3 trillion watt Ionic beams. could they affect the weather? Honest question?

[rayshepherd]

I like my Tesla. In fact I'm on my second one. However, I'm totally against forcing them on us. By the way the reason I purchased them was because of their performance not that it was going to save the planet or it was going to save me money. When I sold the first one it's total cost per mile was much higher than most of the cars I have owned.

[henrimoens]

car batteries are the lead-acid type since time immemorial

[Huube]

You guys are making the same wrong assumption about billionaires that I hear over and over again and it makes you sound like conspiracy theorists. Stop assuming that Billionaires are motivated by money. They ALREADY HAVE money. More is just a byproduct of their work.

They are motivated by the savior complex. They want to help. It makes them feel good about themselves and it improves their relationship with the public who would otherwise be jealous and hate them.

Do they often make money from these deals? Yes. But that’s not the primary motivation. And you all should inherently understand this since you’re doing the same thing. For anything to be sustainable it needs to be able to make money on its own. This podcast has to be sustainable as are their climate schemes. They’re business people and understand this better than anyone. Charity can only go so far. They could donate their entire fortunes and only run the government for a few minutes. Make the cause sustainable and it can run forever.

[jimmyandersson]

It's all very simple, if you want to know the truth, follow the money!

[mlkewilson]

Stop the geoengineering and the weather will normalize don't you agree

[WantnSup]

You guys do a lot of backslapping, anecdotes and slagging of the climate change zealots. Your format would easily fit into a CNN low information talkshow. I am not sure that real science needs more of that.