I think the problem is that we haven’t even run into that problem yet.

Every time you see an article on the latest storm/fire/flood, they’ll always find a quote from Prof Jack Johnson of Hofstra University who says something like “It’s impossible to attribute the cause of this event to climate change.” Sometimes they’ll say “any single event,” and sometimes they’ll follow up with “but models predict we should see more of X of climate change doesn’t turn around.”

People read that nuance, and their brains shut down. People are used to being told what to worry about. Hell, people are used to being lied to about what to worry about, and having a different thing to worry about next week.

Look - I know what it’s like. I’m a scientist, and I talk like that all the time. I always want to be very clear and direct, and I want to be transparent about what we know, what we think, and what we have a good idea about.

But not on this topic. Not any more.

Call it climate collapse and the news will eat it up

I prefer climate crisis.

The hurricanes are cooking with gas.

It used to be called "global warming". But the intense lobbying and propaganda successfully changed the term to the more mild "climate change"

We're doing nothing because it's not affecting the rich.

I can almost guarantee that if category 5 hurricanes were hitting New York or DC every few months, we'd be taking action overnight.

It's wild. I initially thought the news was artificially hyping up the storm because of the somewhat quiet year for landfall storms and because I had checked the storm the night before and it was practically nothing....

But no. Just drank up all that very warm shallow beach water and did something impossible but now possible. Horrifying. Really does feel like a horror movie that keeps going.