Climate change is making severe storms both more common and more intense.
First the river rose in Texas. Then, the rains fell hard over North Carolina, New Mexico and Illinois.
In less than a week, there were at least four 1-in-1,000-year rainfall events across the United States — intense deluges that are thought to have roughly a 0.1% chance of happening in any given year.
“Any one of these intense rainfall events has a low chance of occurring in a given year,” said Kristina Dahl, vice president for science at the nonprofit organization Climate Central, “so to see events that are historic and record-breaking in multiple parts of the country over the course of one week is even more alarming.”
It’s the kind of statistic, several experts said, that is both eye-opening and likely to become more common because of climate change.
Ignorance is bad. Willful ignorance is deadly.
https://www.northernamericannordicsociety.com/post/orlog-hamingja-and-why-we-live-honorably
Aka the easy choice of continuing multigenerational trauma, including projection, or doing the hard, tedious work of the personal responsibility of healing society by healing ourselves.
Fun fact, the reason we all call it “climate change” and not “global warming” was because the George W Bush administration directed NASA to do so, as they deemed it less “scary” to the public:
In interviews, Republican politicians and their aides said they agreed with the strategist, Frank Luntz, that it was important to pay attention to what his memorandum, written before the November elections, called ‘‘the environmental communications battle.’’
In his memorandum, Mr. Luntz urges that the term ‘‘climate change’’ be used instead of ‘‘global warming,’’ because ‘‘while global warming has catastrophic communications attached to it, climate change sounds a more controllable and less emotional challenge.’’
Also, he wrote, ‘‘conservationist’’ conveys a ‘‘moderate, reasoned, common sense position’’ while ‘‘environmentalist’’ has the ‘‘connotation of extremism.’’
President Bush’s speeches on the environment show that the terms ‘‘global warming’’ and ‘‘environmentalist’’ had largely disappeared by late last summer. The terms appeared in a number of President Bush’s speeches in 2001, but now the White House fairly consistently uses ‘‘climate change’’ and ‘‘conservationist.’’
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/us/a-call-for-softer-greener-language.html
What drives me insane is how everyone on the left just… went along with it. Now we retroactively rewrite history and claim that they were always separate terms with entirely different distinct meanings. And knowing that so many highly educated, inquisitive, independent thinking people didn’t think to question that or look into that, it frightens me.
While the Bush administration certainly had (very obviou$) reasons for trying to downplay it, I also remember at least some scientists at the time arguing that climate change was a better term because people are particularly stupid about the term global warming when it paradoxically results in some places having a greater number of and more extreme cold events.
Ex: every time some dumbfuck Republican brought a snowball into Congress to talk about how global warming is fake because look here’s snow!!
God, I wish it only happened once.
I also remember at least some scientists at the time arguing that climate change was a better term because people are particularly stupid about the term global warming when it paradoxically results in some places having a greater number of and more extreme cold events.
That’s how I recall the term climate change coming into favor, too.
That snowball guy finally died last year, thank God. Too bad it wasn’t from a flood or hurricane.
Good to know! They should have been a little more creative and called it something familiar and snappy like Sport Utility Environment or Gas Guzzler.
The left went along with it because they were tired of all the “then why is it so cold in winter?” comments from the stupid half of the family tree.
We still get that now. As if cold things can’t exist when it’s hotter.
deleted by creator
deleted by creator
Why would Joe Biden do this?
Honestly it was Obama. Biden died long ago and the wh just used a clone of him. See he used biden as a puppet so he could still have access to the white houses adrinochrome stash. They keep it stock piled in the basement.
Source: my friends older brother that smokes weed all day
Must be true, why would he choose to stay in the basement and smoke weed all day if it wasn’t true?
Make large reservoirs to catch all the water! This will cause it to never rain again. Just like setting up flood alarms. If it does ever rain you’ll catch water.
That water belongs to Nestlé.
Oh sure, we could have sponsorship challenges! Gamify water harvesting!
deleted by creator
Believe it or not, there’s actual science and statistics that go into what is considered a “100 year storm” or “1000 year storm”, and yes they will be adjusted. That’s how it’s meant to work.
No, see, all this happened to maga coded places not famously queer places, do it’s not the wrath of god.
deleted by creator
This is gonna create some real bad problems for building codes. Lots of stuff is designed with statistical probabilities in mind, where they account for varying levels of rare extreme weather events. If the 1 in 100 years storm becomes a 1 in 10 years storm, then lots of stuff will be in trouble.
lots of stuff will be in trouble.
Like, civilization?
Depends on where you live and how smart the people there were about planning for climate change. Residential houses are probably not the biggest issues. Its the more extreme constructs like skyscrapers and bridges that might be in trouble sooner than that.
Or you know, the global supply chain and food systems. Breadbaskets will need to function throughout all this.
Yeah ofcourse, there are going to be problems in every aspect of our lives. I was just specifically thinking about this statistical thing that is used for building safety considerations during construction.
Uh yeah, actuaries have already determined the world GDP will be catastrophically damaged, forever, if we don’t limit warming to 2C.
We already blew past 1.5C, if you didn’t know… and also, the trend in the last decade is continuously that the climate is breaking harder and faster than the scientific consensus broadly projects… so its probably gonna be actually worse than this.
…
US insurance companies have already figured out that roughly the bottom 1/3 of the US will be uninsurable in 10 years… which is why they’re either massively upping insurance rates, or largely pulling out of the home insurance business in CA, FL, other southern US states and regions, which is causing all these states to bankrupt themselves as they try to offer a public/government version of home insurance, but refuse to tax people appropriately or fairly to be able to actuslly fund such an endeavor.
Generally, you can’t get a home mortgage without insurance, you can’t own and rent a place out if you don’t have property insurance.
…
tl;dr: You have no idea how fucked we all are.
I remember when 1.5C was the threshold instead of 2. We’re already living in yesterday’s doomsday scenario.
florida is pretty much a given, building in flood prone areas is just asking for it.
Generally, you can’t get a home mortgage without insurance, you can’t own and rent a place out if you don’t have property insurance.
So, Canada, then?
I am unironically moving to Minnesota ASAP.
Cheapest to live in decently blue state, all the climate risk assesments I’ve seen seem to show that, as long as you’re not living right on the Mississippi, pretty low comparative climate risks… oh, and their housing market (thus economy generally) is fairly stable, compared to about half of the rest of the country, whose housing market is currently crashing harder than the 06-08 GFC.
Canada isn’t a bad option at all, but its actually fairly difficult to legally migrate there.
Its gonna be really, really funny when the Canadians start deporting waves of poor Americans fleeing northward, in about 5 to 10 years.
deleted by creator
it’s okay the trump fascists will dismantle NOAA and then we won’t know any of this anymore :3
Sure glad republicans are in charge of everything
The weather this year is scaring me more than normal in south Texas. Not because the abnormal amount of rain but because the absolute lack of heat. Usually this time of year it’s 100+ for weeks on end.
deleted by creator
Ok
Some are unironically already saying it’s evil liberal cloud seeding.
Some are already doing violence about it.
We tried to warn them.
That and HAARP directed energy weapon
Reply that it’s God punishing the nation for electing a pedophile president.
They’re not “1 in a thousand years” anymore!
They’re once a week!
4 times a week now!
And none blasted that vile Maralago place… Fingers still crossed