People in Florida starting to get it that they are in big trouble with climate impacts, as insurers flee the state.
In the Heartland, this summer’s extremes might be opening a portal to what the future may hold – first with devastating flooding in New England, a place that many people assumed was secure from climate impacts.
This week, Mayfield Kentucky absorbed massive flooding, which comes while the community is still rebuilding from devastating tornadoes that destroyed a thousand homes, just before Christmas 2021.
Below, weather tracker’s live reporting as the 2021 Tornado hits Mayfield, Kentucky.
“Speechless. I’ve never seen anything like that in my life.”
Of course, in Eastern Kentucky, just a year ago, historically intense rain was massively destructive to many Appalachian communities with few resources.
My well of compassion for these folks has run dry. In this red state, they’ve been voting for this, not only for themselves, but for all the rest of us, for decades.
Long-lost Greenland ice core suggests potential for disastrous sea level rise
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/world/greenland-ice-sheet-melt-sea-level-rise-climate/index.html
Ah, “long-lost” as in stored away in some research catacombs in 1966 from before they had sufficient technology to analyze it. Of course, if they had analyzed it in 1966, the oil and gas companies would have had plenty of time to hide the implications from the general public.
With the banks of radar screens put up during the Ryan Hall Y’all coverage, they highlight the “hook echo” images of a moving storm to forecast what’s about to hit the next community in line, but to me the large blue plume of debris from the last town says it all.