Anonymous wrote:Actually, Asheville is avery blue area in a red state. So ignoring them doesn't fit.
It looks like to me that only major TV news channels are ignoring the disaster, including the weather channel.
I've heard news after the aftermath on Washington Post, NPR, and local news channels.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Another guess.
Because we get less and less of our news from MSM and if it is not being covered on social media sites there are a lot of people not seeing it. If cell service is down and a lack of power there are fewer non traditional reporters that are reporting on it?
OP here. My issue is actually that social media seems much more informative about the scope of what is happening. It feels like WaPo and NY Times aren't fully conveying how catastrophic this is.
CNN, NBC, and USA Today, plus tons of local news outlets are all over my Apple News Feed about this. Why are you just obsessing about NYT and WP (who have also covered it but not to your satisfaction?) There is only so much new news to report. Catastrophic flooding, many people stranded, roads washed out, first responders can’t reach them, power out. It’s all been reported already - what do you want them to report?????
Ugh I've described my concerns. I don't watch TV news. Agree to disagree. Not going to keep repeating what I've already described.
Ugh okay. You are the one that brought it up. Maybe stick to social media for stories about people’s personal family stories.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
It doesn’t get clicks. Better to spin everyone up on anti-semitism and Gaza than actually report.
It is a huge disaster. And we likely won’t understand the full scope for another week or two.
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?
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.
All of the reporting on this should feature the compounding effect of global warming on the strength of this hurricane.
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?
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4904495-climcate-change-hurricanes-intensifying-how/
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.
I'm sure the "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" doesn't have any sort of agenda regarding this phenomenon.
Anonymous wrote:Because it impacted red states.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
It doesn’t get clicks. Better to spin everyone up on anti-semitism and Gaza than actually report.
It is a huge disaster. And we likely won’t understand the full scope for another week or two.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
It doesn’t get clicks. Better to spin everyone up on anti-semitism and Gaza than actually report.
It is a huge disaster. And we likely won’t understand the full scope for another week or two.
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?
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.
All of the reporting on this should feature the compounding effect of global warming on the strength of this hurricane.
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?
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4904495-climcate-change-hurricanes-intensifying-how/
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.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Because it rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat for those hurricane prone areas. The government will spend billions to rebuild and then in five years another storm will come through and do blow it away again.
Anonymous wrote: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.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Another guess.
Because we get less and less of our news from MSM and if it is not being covered on social media sites there are a lot of people not seeing it. If cell service is down and a lack of power there are fewer non traditional reporters that are reporting on it?
OP here. My issue is actually that social media seems much more informative about the scope of what is happening. It feels like WaPo and NY Times aren't fully conveying how catastrophic this is.
CNN, NBC, and USA Today, plus tons of local news outlets are all over my Apple News Feed about this. Why are you just obsessing about NYT and WP (who have also covered it but not to your satisfaction?) There is only so much new news to report. Catastrophic flooding, many people stranded, roads washed out, first responders can’t reach them, power out. It’s all been reported already - what do you want them to report?????
Ugh I've described my concerns. I don't watch TV news. Agree to disagree. Not going to keep repeating what I've already described.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
It doesn’t get clicks. Better to spin everyone up on anti-semitism and Gaza than actually report.
It is a huge disaster. And we likely won’t understand the full scope for another week or two.
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?
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.
All of the reporting on this should feature the compounding effect of global warming on the strength of this hurricane.
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?
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.