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16. Reading a website doesn't make you an expert
Tue May 26, 2026, 01:36 PM
2 hrs ago

You think that because you read a website that you know more than experts with decades of experience. It's clear that you don't. FYI, meteorologists have extensive weather training. My engineer/pilot father had extensive weather training as weather knowledge is critical for pilot survival. You obviously have no such weather training. My engineer father well understood that our warming planet is causing the jet steam to change and behave in very different ways than it did in the past. This is contributing to hurricanes behaving in very different ways and becoming much more damaging. You don't seem to understand that. You've also never actually flown hurricane reconnaissance like my engineer/pilot father so you have no idea. Since my engineer father knew exactly how every aviation and automotive fuel and oils were formulated, he was well aware of the greenhouse gases that are created when fossil fuel is burned and the fact that these greenhouse gases are poisoning our planet, significantly changing the weather patterns and threatening the survival of humanity.
One of many things that's wrong with our country is the disrespect for expertise by people with no such expertise. Again, you think that because you read a website, you're an expert. That's not how it works. Your disrespect for expertise you'll never have is offensive.

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