Amid the coverage of Hurricane Ida as it hit Louisiana yesterday, I was struck by a phrase used by Al Roker to describe the counterintuitive status quo as the storm stayed a category 4 even several hours after making landfall. Roker said the saturated soil and wet marshy areas acted like a "brown ocean", supplying the storm with moisture. I guess we'll have to get used to a new nomenclature as climate change becomes more entrenched.
Hurricanes which strengthen from a Cat 1 to a monster 4 overnight. Western states where wildfires burn areas the size of Connecticut in a week and third world countries facing drought induced famine. Meanwhile, we argue about whether to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan. What is wrong with this picture?
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