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I wish we would stop calling it "flash floods". Flash floods happen after unusually heavy rain. This had nothing to do with heavy rain. Would we call it flash floods if a deluge wiped out a settlement after a dam burst?

I’m a dog on the street and I know it’s climate change.

Only to a moron

I agree about the mass shootings of school children. But these "land/glacier slides" don't involve guns. So I can hope that those who worship their God of Guns, might also care.

i was afraid of this 😔

The @apnews.com Climate and Environment news team would likely agree, www.linkedin.com/pulse/planet...

it's in some sense a logical retreat. If all branches of government are in the hands of sworn enemies (u.s.), then you can raise your voice but is there anyone around to hear? Maybe midterms help.

And, for bonus reading, the story of how the carbon component was extracted from the ecological footprint concept and popularized by fossil fuel companies:

Breathtaking...

To be fair it was seen as an academic possibility - partially because no one expected the massive increase in fossil fuel usage. By 1980 the fact of increased temperature was emerging from the noise of weather.

i remember my 9th grade science teacher talking about climate change (called it global warming back then) in 1989! and he told us there would be MORE snow bc more moisture in the atmosphere from melted ice caps. drives me nuts when people think "it's snowing, so global warming can't be real!"

At the very least, you expect to see the groundwork laid by the generation before you. Here I am at 44, and not only is the problem not fixed, the same people who stopped it from being fixed when I was a child are still stopping it from being fixed today, because they're still in power.

It isn't necessary to be able to predict exactly what and exactly when because "soon enough to impact you and your family" and "whatever happens is guaranteed to be bad" is all that matters. (See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambigui...)

Thanks for the response. There’s too much news for any one of us to process, and sometimes I just give up and ask other experts, so I don’t dive down a dead-end rabbit hole.

It's like seeing a person getting beaten unconcious by several others and analyzing which specific punch to the face knocked them out. We know they were knocked out due to physical violence even if we dont know specifically which person/punch did it

But understanding the proximal cause may be more effective at preventing similar disasters than efforts to stop climate change, at least within our lifetimes.

I'll look at your other work - people are noticing that things are changing (better late than never I guess...). It's a critical time to focus on good communication and practical, engaging ideas. It's not "We shouldn't say climate change." It's breaking it down into consumable, relatable bites. IMO!

So important. "What can I do?" is one of the biggest things the public needs education on. People care, but it's overwhelming.

This sort of incident had been predicted as a strong possibility for several years

Are we sure this isn't the result of trans people playing sports?

One of the places that view was held has been the US military, the largest logistics organization in the world. That recognition of reality has been shattered, along with it our nation's security.

It’s journalistic malpractice at this point 😤

GREED RULES‼️

…also like during the height of the ongoing pandemic when so many were dying “with covid” instead of “of covid” that freezer trucks had to be parked outside of emergency rooms to handle the excess bodies….

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Every disaster has multiple factors. Vulnerability, exposure, and the hazard itself all interact to create a disaster – that is well known. In fact, I teach an entire graduate class based on this diagram! Climate change is loading the dice against us, increasing both the risks and the danger.

Has the role of animal agriculture in warming the planet been massively underestimated through the consistent use of gwp100, sector fragmentation, not counting the opportunity cost of lost forest, not counting biogenic respiration etc etc ? iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Yeah, the headline here is: this only happened because of climate change. Exactly how isn’t known and may not be known for some time. But don’t lose the forest for the trees. These types of events are our future and understanding the details of why it happened isn’t really going to stop that.

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i give students the example of the "biggest" dinosaur: when i was a kid, it was brontosaurus. and then that got renamed apatosaurus. and then the biggest was ultrasaurus. and then 10 years ago it was the titanosaur. bc we found new fossils! science changes, but it's not opinion. social science too.

Don't know why this is even a question....

Similarily, they say they have to study years before deciding if Israel is committing genocide, too. But we can all see what is happening, in various things.

"it's just weather" is my favorite, when the knuckledraggers on FB yell it at our local meteorologist who has a freaking PhD