Fueled by Climate Change, Hurricane Dorian Devastates the Bahamas in “Unprecedented Disaster”
Democracy Now! 
Hurricane Dorian is continuing to wreak havoc in the Bahamas, where massive storms and flooding have killed five people and left many stranded on the Grand Bahama and Abaco Islands over the weekend. The Category 3 storm pummeled the islands throughout Monday with up to 180-mile-per-hour winds and continued to be stalled in the region Tuesday. Hurricane Dorian is one of the strongest recorded storms to ever strike the Atlantic, and is expected to continue a destructive path toward Florida and then onward to the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina. It made landfall as a Category 5 storm in the Bahamas Sunday. We speak to two guests: Christian Campbell, a Bahamian poet, scholar and essayist, and Tiphanie Yanique, an award-winning poet and novelist from the U.S. Virgin Island of St. Thomas.
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Geoengineering is the only thing that will save us at this point, we've fucked around too long for conventional methods to reverse things in time
Fueled by Climate Change? You guys have no depth you won't sink to for a click, huh?
Maybe Trump's small hands make it hard for him to count to five?
Explaining not knowing what a Cat 5 hurricane is?
If there were reparations, all would be better off. The reparations for should be for all harmed by US. We need to put people in a better condition than they've been left in.
I'm 32 yr old American MEXICAN! From southern California! MAGA!! 2020!! you guys keep blaming this storm on trump 🤣 get over it and vote then ! God bless all the world
THE EARTH CHANGES ….. THAT CLIMATE WILL CHANGE …. UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPT OF CHANGE DOESN'T SIT WELL WITH ANYONE
Take some of the money you allow rich white people who live there ,let them handle it
If a "lie" is told to you & never corrected its not a "lie" its BRAINWASHING 5 TIMES DRAFT DODGER
!con art·ist
nouninformal noun: con artist; plural noun: con artists a person who cheats or tricks others by persuading them to believe something that is not true. baca brainwashed the county jail even some fbi agents he helped trump brainwash people
as the climatologists said, the storms are fewer but far mroe intense.
How does anyone trust a so called "leader" who doesn't know what a category 5 hurricane is? A real lack of intelligence and a cabinet full of buffoons who don't have a clue either. One would think that the people would require a minimal of intelligence from their chosen leaders. It is quizzical how such a sociopath becomes society's beacon for tomorrows future. I vote no confidence, step down.
Soooo….
No more crisis from the fires in the Amazon? Not a peep in 4 days.
Which one of those 700 islands is Jeffery hiding on?
Just saw the aerial footage of the Bahamas. Complete destruction, unfathomable damage. This category 5 storm stalled for 30+ hours over the Bahamas. With the destruction of the jet stream and other climate systems, this is still just the beginning. We desperately need leadership who will stand up to the fossil fuel industry. Please make sure you're ready to vote in the primary and general elections.
love love love
We Native Americans have been telling you since your arrival that your ways are not sustainable but it fell on deaf ears. Just how much longer do you wish to live so disconnected from mother earth in your large, mass polluted cities and keep burning oil? All the way to our death? It's not going to get any better until we change our ways. Climate change is very real and mankind is for sure responsible. The rich billionaires in charge, wont have a mother earth for their children either. So blinded by their greed. We should all be ashamed.
Both nations well explained, no politics, no rhetorics, no propaganda all of which the world is very tired and weary of.
They BLAME TRUMP for rain, hurricanes, and all disasters that have
happened or will happen. You might blame him for stopping Gods return to earth..
When Jordan Peterson talks about that people with an IQ less than 83 are not allowed to join the army, I tell the ones Who are involved: "Dont worry folks. At least you can beat the president any time… in most thinking tests"
My prayers goes out to everyone!
Man made they killing the black family omg HAALA Google it
Tell'in the Truth Young Lady…..
That's how storms are made amy two climates collide.
Seems like the USA itself will get away with only a scratch. So sorry for the people in the bahamas. But I really hope the USA will be hit badly by these storms. It's the ONLY way they will learn I believe. It's our only chance to get a global movement to really do something against climate change. Hoping for devastation in the US by hurricanes…
It does not make any sense to keep living in these places, if you live in these Islands or coastal areas you need to relocate. All people that live on coastal land areas need to move 100 miles are more inland, likewise if you live in the forest or wooded areas you need to move doesn't make any sense too keep staying there ether and get burnt up ( get that silly idea out your mind crying this my home, my country etc. )
Im from The Bahamas and i would say a lot of my people aren't informed of whats going on and they have no intentions on building adaptable homes. My people will rebuild the same houses on the same foundation and the same thing will occur.
I didn't hear you mention geoengineering or weather modification either … so there's that
This is mother Earth fighting back against the disease called the Human Race. We are all guilty of it, left or right wing of politics climate change and collapse is gonna fuck us all equally.
You all are F^%%ing MORONS!
Blessings and Prayers
Thank you climate change. 20,000 years ago there was a 2km thick glacier where I live. CO2 is responsible for much of the greening of the earth. Thank you climate change.
Rebuild? Time to leave Bahama. This is only going to get worse with rising warming oceans.
Absolutely No Cat 5 Hurricane has had the perfect round eye like this one… It's fake news?!
Trump don't like science
Tiphanie Yanique… Man made storms caused by Trump to take out poor people of color? And nobody was warned.
Operation depopulation by color, race, and religion priority! The storms are madman-made storms, the ones that God has made giant burning redwood trees for their AnUs ready.
Peace to the families and people affected.
No proof in the headline. Let’s have a story about some governments having the ability to manipulate weather? No? Why not?
I love how much hate Trump gets. Hes literally turning everything around for USA. Does his bedside manner leave something to be desired? Is he a great speaker? You can find things wrong with EVERY president in our nation's history. That being said he has turned things around and is making America great again! Love the gen z that dont even know why they are protesting. Id you ask them why he should be impeached they look around confused and say Russia yet dont know a thing about Russia. They say hes racist. Wheres the proof hes racist? Hes gonna win in a landslide in 2020 thank God because the Democrat party is truly sad. Anyway prayers for the affected people everywhere who were affected in mother natures fury. Prayers for first responders and prayers for healing, both physically/mentally and rebuilding. Godspeed✝️
Damn…
Typical attention to detail in your write up. Category 3 storm moves across the islands wreaking havoc. Couple of sentences later its a cat 5 storm….great reporting! That large glaciar that has been growing in Greenland is never mentioned by you guys and why is that?
He meant that he had never heard of one being measured as a cat 5 dumbass! It was an expressive term or phrase, that is how he talks, in fact that is how New Yorkers talk. A hurricane during hurricane season doesn't mean the world is going to end. Lets say it does mean the world is going to end though and if that is the case why bother offering Universal healthcare if we're all going to die as it appears we won't actually need it.
Until there are 10 million year studies showing a steadily warming planet, I'll think of it as climate fluctuation. And I'll enjoy the pretzel logic that follows debating it.
DEMOCRACY NOW CAN'T EVEN REPORT ON THE HURRICAN WITHOUT BASHING THE PRESIDENT. IT'S CALL "Trump derangement syndrome".
Your life only matters when your death can serve the agenda.
Isn’t Kamala Harris family/dads side from the Bahamas?
I came here looking for an explanation on how climate change caused this storm but all you want to talk about is Trumps tweets…
Wow, maybe go outside and watch the planes laying down weather. You're so fucking stupid it's made you blind. Grow up Amy and tell the truth for once.
this is NOT CLIMATE CHANGE! IT'S @WEAPONIZEDWEATHER! Presstitutes only encourage and continue the LIES.
This is not climate change, this the judgement of the Great Mighty God ,everyone Repent.
This comment may seem frivolous at this time but the issue I have transcends the tragedy of this storm and the growing intensity of storms. In addition there are other causative factors to consider; the relationship to warming ocean temperatures, the possibility of both earth changes (due to the instability of the poles …see the 26000 year “procession of the equinoxes” as understood by early Egyptian cosmology as well as other early civilizations generally ignored by western science ), and such solar events as coronal mass ejections. In conjunction with solar activity (said to be low currently) there are reports that the earth’s magnetic field is also…in flux. Explanations for the tsunami that was experienced in the basin of the Indian Ocean were mostly focused on plate tectonics. Not discussed in the public arena was the possibility that an asteroid strike (not seen but felt) may have been in play.
Across the street from the major Yucatan tourist attraction (the three level reconstructed pyramid east of Merida) there is a less viewed astronomical observatory dubbed “the Caracol” (“the snail”…due to its shape). There are only apertures facing the cardinal points and also referencing the equinoxes and solstices. Whether the Maya had any apparatus to view the skies from the Caracol is, to my knowledge, unknown. The existence of the crystal skulls does give indication of design and manufacturing skills of crystal that might/could have been employed for magnification (required in the development of early telescopes long since transcended by the kind of radio telescopes found in western Puerto Rico. Arecibo was and may still be the worlds largest but news of the Chinese building an even larger radio telescope.|
But back to the frivolous; I have an issue with Juans dry-mouth reporting. As a musician I may be more sensitive to the clicking and smacking sounds that I used to think was a microphone placement issue. But surely the studio uses the same quality mics and I never hear this in Amys reporting… Listening the interviews this week with former Marine general and Secretary of Defense, Mattis also raised the same issue for me. His age and possible use of dentures could explain what I call the “mush-mouth” effect that has also afflicted Trump. In any case it could eleviate the irritation and distraction factors for those with higher sound sensitivity.
AFN (all for now)
JEB