“But muh, hurricanes are becoming stronger.” No, they actually aren’t. Given I am a meteorologist, I think I would know a thing or two about this. The real-world data show that: 1️⃣ Major hurricane (MH)—those that reach category three on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale—counts have not increased since 1990, a period with consistent observational data thanks to the Advanced Microwave Sounding Units (AMSU) on satellites. Data from the 1980s and prior have some quality issues. If hurricanes were actually becoming stronger, we would be seeing more of them reaching major hurricanes status. Some organizations, such as the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), argue that a greater proportion of hurricanes now reach major hurricane status, but that framing is misleading because it suggests major hurricanes are increasing in occurrence, when absolute numbers show that to be false. The reality is that the proportional rise is due to a faster decrease in Cat. 1-5 fixes due to fewer weaker hurricanes forming, but the number of Cat. 3-5 hurricanes have not decreased at the same rate because they are rarer overall (Jewson & Lewis, 2020). 🔗 mdpi.com/2673-1924/1/4/21 2️⃣ The Accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) has 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 globally since 1990, mostly due to a downturn in North Pacific activity over the last decade. ACE is a decent measure of tropical cyclone intensity and duration since it is the sum of the square of each storm’s maximum sustained wind speed over every six-hour period. If storms were becoming stronger, ACE would be increasing rather noticeably. 3️⃣ Globally, there has been no increase in the frequency of tropical cyclone (TC) “rapid intensification” (RI)—defined as a ≥30-knot / ≥35-mph increase in maximum sustained wind speed within ≤24 hours—since 1990, as per data updated from Figure S1 in the Supporting Information document in to Klotzbach et al. (2022). There has been an increase in extreme RI events—defined as a ≥50-knot / ≥58-mph increase in maximum sustained wind speed within ≤24 hours—but that is only a small subset of the total RI events, so it is largely irrelevant. Looking at total RI matters far more than cherry-picking the ≥50-knot / ≥58-mph events. 🔗 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.… 4️⃣ And, lastly, regarding tropical cyclone rainfall, NOAA’s top two hurricane specialists, Drs. Chris Landsea and Tom Knutson, say that, 🗨 “[𝐴] 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑒-𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑦𝑒𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔-𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙.” 🔗 climate.gov/news-features/bl… Real-world data presents challenge for climate activists to sell their snake oil sales pitch, which is why they try to divert your attention away from hard data and focus it on modeling studies that ponder about hypothetical future scenarios that have a small chance of happening.

You want to know why @SenSchumer wants to bail out health insurance companies with OUR tax dollars? Insurance Industry Donations to Democrats (2023–2024 Cycle) h/t @DravenDon

Unpopular Fact: Everyone paying their “fair share” would mean raising taxes on lower income groups.

Democrats wrote Obamacare. Democrats created COVID subsidies to hide their high costs and designed them to expire… on their own. Democrats failed to extend Biden-era COVID subsidies when they had full control of government. Dems: "Why did Republicans do this?”

Where Do Our Health Insurance Premiums Go? open.substack.com/pub/health… From 2014 to 2024, the top seven health insurance companies had profits exceeding $500,000,000,000. They spent $146,000,000,000 on stock buybacks. This was done to increase the stock price and the CEO's salary. They spent $168,000,000 on lobbying. The premium dollars we spend are used to lobby against us! Politicians love to blame the insurance companies, but it is the politicians who designed the system and accept the lobbyists' dollars and favors. It is time to admit the ACA has been a failure, and we need a new system! We need a system that does the following: • Promotes patient control of their healthcare dollars •Demands price transparency • Eliminates every barrier to a competitive and physician led healthcare system • Allows patients to purchase catastrophic policies • Allows physician ownership of hospitals • Site-neutral care • Ends Stark laws • Eliminates politicians accepting healthcare lobbyists dollars and favors. @DutchRojas @DrDiGiorgio @real_dr_mudgil @drdanchoi @noahkaufmanmd

When you renew your vehicle tabs this year and see they’re as expensive as ever, remember to thank Gov. Walz and Democrats. Another real-world reminder that their $10 billion in tax hikes, passed when they had full control of St. Paul, are making life less affordable for Minnesotans.

In Nancy Pelosi’s honor, let’s PASS my PELOSI Act and BAN stock trading for members of Congress foxnews.com/media/nancy-pelo…

"There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism -- by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide." Ayn Rand

"You're paying an outrageous amount of money for a school system that isn’t producing any results, they are losing student population and are too top-heavy in administration. This is ridiculous.” - Joe Soucheray

Zohran's fight against billionaire oligarchs is off to a fantastic start.

You can tell God is dealing with his heart ♥️ Keep the faith Tyrus 🙏

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) Any fans?

“Mom, I fell off my bike and skinned my knee.” “Well, let me unleash hell on earth then.”

🚨Breaking Update🚨: This young man summarizes what is really going on regarding this Shutdown. Do you agree with him?

42 million people are on SNAP. 70% of SNAP recipients are overweight or obese. Only 4.2 million—or 10%—are disabled, and 44% of those disabilities are due to obesity or obesity-related illnesses. 3.9 million SNAP recipients are the children of illegal aliens. 1.5 million are refugees or asylees from other countries. This is not ok. This is not sustainable.

Today, Bill Gates admitted that pushing climate doomerism was a mistake. @LLBiggers: “That shift to common sense is welcome, but it comes after decades of fearmongering that harmed young people, stalled development, and punished dissenting scientists.”

This is why the radical left is going batshit crazy over ICE arrests 👇

43 million Americans are on food stamps (SNAP). This is just the tip of the iceberg. 80% of SNAP participants are on Medicaid. 61% of SNAP participants receive benefits from 2 or more additional safety net programs. And 53.5% of immigrants are on at least one welfare program.

"Carnivore will spike your cholesterol to dangerous levels." The issue: Total cholesterol increases. LDL-C increases. Doctors panic. What actually happens: HDL increases, triglycerides drop 50-70%, LDL particle size shifts to large fluffy, inflammation markers plummet. These are the real risk predictors. They all improve. LDL-C alone is meaningless. Half of heart attack patients have normal LDL. The lipid panic is outdated science maintained by pharmaceutical companies selling statins.