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Fossil-Fueled Hurricane Milton Hammers Florida With Violent Winds, Massive Flooding

"If politicians had listened to scientists decades ago, and worked to gradually rein in fossil fuel pollution, the ocean wouldn't be so boiling hot—and Hurricane Milton wouldn't have had the fuel to balloon into such a monster storm."

Hurricane Milton made landfall south of Tampa, Florida late Wednesday as a Category 3 storm after rapidly intensifying in the Gulf of Mexico, bringing devastating flooding and powerful winds that destroyed homes and knocked out power for millions.

Several tornadoes triggered by the monstrous storm—which was made stronger by ocean temperatures pushed higher by fossil fuel-driven climate change—killed an unspecified number of residents on Florida's Atlantic Coast, according to local authorities.

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Make No Mistake, Project 2025 Will Also Be Project 2029 and Project 2033

Not only should this document be tied directly to Trump—because only a fool would believe the liar who denies it—but it must been seen for what it is: the conservative project of the entire Republican Party past, present, and long into the future.

Although the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has recently distanced himself from it (despite the fact that six of the former president’s cabinet secretaries and at least 140 people who worked in his administration were involved in writing it—whatevs), Project 2025 remains the blueprint for conservative policymaking for any future conservative president.

If it’s not Project 2025, it will be Project 2029, Project 2033, and so on. It’s boilerplate conservative thought, boiled down, in a nod to the efficiency they so love, to a mere 880 pages. As the saying goes, when 110 conservative organizations tell you who they are, believe them.

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'Clear and Present Danger': US Faces Record Heat as Climate Crisis Intensifies

"As a result of the burning of fossil fuels, heatwaves are becoming more common, and intense heatwaves are more frequent," said one researcher. "We can break the cycle, we can make oil companies stop burning fossil fuels."

More than 120 million Americans from coast to coast were under heat advisories this weekend as large swaths of the United States faced scorching—and in some cases record-shattering—temperatures, extreme conditions that are likely to keep getting worse as long as fossil fuel production and use continues apace.

The National Weather Service (NWS) warned Sunday morning that heat in the West was "extremely dangerous" and humidity was persistent in the East. The current weather pattern is expected to "sustain a heatwave for much of the West Coast states while oppressive heat and humidity will continue along the Eastern Seaboard, down into the Southeast and Deep South."

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Fossil-Fueled Hurricane Milton Hammers Florida With Violent Winds, Massive Flooding

"If politicians had listened to scientists decades ago, and worked to gradually rein in fossil fuel pollution, the ocean wouldn't be so boiling hot—and Hurricane Milton wouldn't have had the fuel to balloon into such a monster storm."

Make No Mistake, Project 2025 Will Also Be Project 2029 and Project 2033

Not only should this document be tied directly to Trump—because only a fool would believe the liar who denies it—but it must been seen for what it is: the conservative project of the entire Republican Party past, present, and long into the future.

'Clear and Present Danger': US Faces Record Heat as Climate Crisis Intensifies

"As a result of the burning of fossil fuels, heatwaves are becoming more common, and intense heatwaves are more frequent," said one researcher. "We can break the cycle, we can make oil companies stop burning fossil fuels."

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