Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Hurricanes are humanity’s reminder of the uncontrollable, chaotic power of Earth’s weather. A damaged 100-year-old home is seen after an Oak tree landed on it after Hurricane Helene moved through the area Sept. 27 in Valdosta, Ga.
Milton’s powerful push toward Florida just days after Helene devastated large parts of the Southeast likely has some in the region wondering if they are being targeted. In some corners of the Internet, Helene has already sparked conspiracy theories and disinformation suggesting the government somehow aimed the hurricane at Republican voters. Besides discounting common sense, such theories disregard weather history that shows the hurricanes are hitting many of the same areas they have for centuries.
They also presume an ability for humans to quickly reshape the weather far beyond relatively puny efforts such as cloud seeding. By JOHN RABY and GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA - Associated Press “If meteorologists could stop hurricanes, we would stop hurricanes,” Kristen Corbosiero, a professor of atmospheric and environmental sciences at the University at Albany. “If we could control the weather, we would not want the kind of death and destruction that’s happened.
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