Happy to be back after a long hospitalization
Happy to be back after a long hospitalization
William P Hall, Editor – 13/10/2024
Inundated New Orleans in aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (Image credit: Mark Moran/NOAA) from NOAA’s Watersheds, flooding, and pollution – Look around you, right now — you are in a watershed
I am sorry about the long gap in my tracking of the still acceleration gamut of extreme weather worldwide. Every week, if not every day, brings yet more grim news of death and destruction from billion-dollar climate catastrophes. (From Watersheds, flooding, and pollution – Look around you, right now — you are in a watershed
New catastrophes are beginning to follow on previous catastrophes a lot faster than previous damage can be repaired, leading to progressive deterioration in the social and economic fabric of the affected areas. Cases in point include the Northern Rivers region of NSW, Australia; SE America (especially the third most populous state, Florida) over the last two weeks; and the state of Guerrero in Mexico, and especially the resort city of Acapulco comprehensively demolished by two rapidly intensifying Pacific hurricanes. Media focussed on the newest sensation tend to ignore this ‘íntensification’ of longer-term trends, but these lead to the beginnings of social collapse as the stock of community and private infrastructure, to say nothing of capital wealth are progressively destroyed by the growing climate catastrophe.
The climate scientist, Bill McKibben in his Substack blog post, “Water” describes the physical changes global warming makes to our atmosphere’s water carrying capacity, and the inevitably leathal contribution this water and its energy content makes to extreme weather. I have discussed these same issues in several contributions to Climate Sentinel News: Lethal Humidity for Derna – a 9/11 event in the climate crisis – 2023-10-29; Global Climate Change Now – 2024-02-29.
A final note, it might be awhile before this actually gets published on VC1. I’m still working on a cludge attached to a new laptop and still cannot lirk direct to our WordPress publising site when I can begin more publishing, yet.