Don Lemon faces accusations of editing content to falsely link Hurricane Ian to climate change without evidence, prompting a National Weather Service guest to clarify that while warming may worsen storms cumulatively, attributing single events is scientifically cautioned. The host counters by politicizing the disaster as a Democratic strategy to secure votes before a potential "red wave," dismissing scientific nuance as an unfixable act of God and refusing to accept that politicians can solve atmospheric issues like superheroes. Ultimately, the exchange highlights the dangerous conflation of meteorological data with partisan agendas during election cycles. [Automatically generated summary]
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Rapid Intensification in Florida00:03:56
Yeah, got a new show for y'all.
Don Lemon edited again.
Don Lemon.
Pushing this climate change.
Check it out.
Trying to scare everybody.
Can you tell us what this is and what effect climate change has on this phenomenon?
Well, we can come back and talk about climate change at a later time.
I want to focus on the here and now.
Rapid intensification is probably almost done.
There could be a little bit more intensification as it's still over the warm waters of the eastern Gulf of Mexico, but I don't think we're going to get any more rapid intensification.
Listen, I'm just trying to get that.
You said you want to talk about climate change, but what effect does climate change have on this phenomenon that is happening now?
Because it seems these storms are intensifying.
That's the question.
I don't think you can link climate change to any one event.
On the whole, on the cumulative, climate change may be making storms worse.
But to link it to any one event, I would caution against that.
Okay.
Listen, I grew up there and these storms are intensifying.
Something is causing them to intensify.
Oh, you grew up there, so you know better.
Hey, you're talking to the damn director of hurricanes at the National Weather Service.
Hey, hey, Don, let me break in on something.
Storms supposed to intensify.
It's a hurricane.
That's what makes them hurricanes.
If it don't intensify, it's not a hurricane.
Hey, hurricanes supposed to intensify.
What the hell are you talking about?
Hey, you know, every, if this is the hurricane season, they got a, it's like winter.
It gets cold, hurricane season, you get hurricanes.
This is nothing new.
Hurricanes every year, a hurricane is stirring right at Florida.
Yeah, this is nothing new.
Category four is fives, they always hit Florida.
Hurricanes have always hit Florida.
Let me repeat it.
Hurricanes have always hit Florida.
I could see if this was Hurricane N and it was hitting New York City.
Yeah, or Oregon or fucking Kansas.
Yeah, maybe if there was like five hurricanes off the coast of Florida and all of them was category five, I mean, I could understand if this was a category.
This is the one man.
Breaking news.
Hurricane intensifies.
This is the first ever category eight storm.
It's packing 500 mile per hour sustained winds.
You got to get out of the state of Florida.
If you don't, you're going to die.
Climate change is real.
Climate change is real.
We got a category 12 off the coast of Africa.
It's going to take out the whole United States.
Now, I would say it was climate change if a damn hurricane hit Russia.
You know what I'm saying?
If a hurricane the size of Russia hits Russia.
Yeah, there's something weird about that.
But this is nothing out of the ordinary.
It's a hurricane hitting Florida.
I mean, this happens all the time.
All right, quit beating that dead horse.
Climate change.
No shit to climate change.
This place used to be, what, covered in ice?
Climate change.
Yeah, man.
I seen this old clip.
I'm going to add it right here.
This is a clip of, what's his name?
He was talking about a hurricane hitting Florida.
Watch this clip.
See this?
Melbourne, Daytona Beach, all the way up to Jacksonville.
This moves 20 miles to the west, and you and everyone you know are dead.
All of you.
Because you can't survive it.
It's not possible unless you're very, very lucky.
And your kids die too.
I can see if there's a category 10 or something like this, and y'all report the hurricane's going to hit, it's going to kill everybody.
But that's not what's going on here.
Climate Change vs Red Wave00:01:03
Yeah.
You're pushing an agenda, a narrative.
Yeah, that Democrats want to support.
Democrats use climate change to grab votes, to gain power.
That's the only reason why.
You don't even give a shit about the hurricane, do you?
You don't.
You don't care about the hurricane.
All you care about is the narrative you can push.
You can care less.
They want to politicize a hurricane so they can get more people to go out and vote.
Because I'm telling you, these Democrats, they are scared.
These upcoming elections?
They're desperate.
Yeah, they see the writing on the wall.
They think it's a red wave coming.
So let's scare the shit out of everybody with Hurricane Ian.
Let's say it's climate change, and we the only people that can stop it.
Even if there was climate change, even if what you saying existed and is real, how the fuck you gonna stop it?
You can't stop that shit.
That's an act of God.
The Democrats, y'all think y'all the X-Men or something?
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