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Bill Adair
Bill Adair is the founder of PolitiFact and a professor of journalism and public policy at Duke University. He is the author of Beyond the Big Lie, from which this essay was adapted.
Climate change set up the Gulf of Mexico to birth a storm this strong, this fast.