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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It feels like this huge disaster is getting ignored. Entire communities have been destroyed. Some won't have water for a week. I see that WaPo.and NY Times are reporting on it but it's below the Middle East and the election and the focus on the deaths which present it as isolated issues. [/quote]

It doesn’t get clicks. Better to spin everyone up on anti-semitism and Gaza than actually report.

It is a huge disaster. [b]And we likely won’t understand the full scope for another week or two. [/quote][/b]

There is no electricity, cell or sewer service in the hardest-hit areas. Want to think through how the logistics of reporting from there should work?[/quote]
The above is reason number 1 why there’s not fuller reporting; it’s going to be a minute before we know the extent.

The other reasons are completely unsexy: this is the result of decades of disinvestment in infrastructure and decades of ignoring global warming. This is exactly what people have been warning about and I think many people across multiple states have felt secure from the worst ravages of global warming’s effects, but this is how it’s going to be: comparatively random events and devastating. Biden has put in the infrastructure work, but that’s just the beginning.

[i]All[/i] of the reporting on this should feature the compounding effect of global warming on the strength of this hurricane. [/quote]

Why is every disaster these days automatically attributed to "climate change". FWIW, a similar flood occured in the same areas in 1916. Was that caused by "climate change" too?[/quote]

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4904495-climcate-change-hurricanes-intensifying-how/

[quote]The proportion of hurricanes that fall into these more intense categories 4 and 5 are expected to increase as the planet heats up, according to the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a well-respected climate science authority from the United Nations. Peak hurricane wind speeds are also expected to rise.

“These hurricanes are getting bigger and stronger and that is due to simple energy transfer,” said Claudia Benitez-Nelson, a climate scientist at the University of South Carolina.

Benitez-Nelson explained that a hotter planet means more energy can transfer from the ocean to the atmosphere.

“And what are hurricanes? They’re big balls of energy and so that energy is now feeding into these tropical storms,” she said. [/quote][/quote]

I'm sure the "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" doesn't have any sort of agenda regarding this phenomenon. [/quote]

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