Re:Ask HN: Are You Hopeful About the Environment?
by slg on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @08:35PM
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Yes, I was referring to hurricane Maria that impacted Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
>We just seem to be bad at responding to trends but better at responding to single events.
That is the problem since climate change is only visible when looking at trends. 100 year floods were very much a thing before climate change so you can't point to a single 100 year flood as a sign of a problem. You instead have to point to X number of 100 year floods in Y number of years.
>We just seem to be bad at responding to trends but better at responding to single events.
That is the problem since climate change is only visible when looking at trends. 100 year floods were very much a thing before climate change so you can't point to a single 100 year flood as a sign of a problem. You instead have to point to X number of 100 year floods in Y number of years.