The darkly fascinating thing about climate change is that it starts as a slow stochastic disaster. It didn't _cause_ the California fires; it just made them much more likely to happen. Same with the East Coast hurricanes, droughts in Australia and Africa, flooding in India, etc.
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People seem obsessed with rising water levels, probably because that's where there's a direct causal link. I wouldn't invest in Florida beachfront property either. But its stochastic effects are hitting us now, and it seems hard for people who don't get math to understand that.
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The focus on water levels is a resurrection of the near-universal flood myth. It's climatology as eschatology. Climate change is empirically real, but most people parse it at the mythic level, as you can see from the language often deployed.
1:21 PM - 9 Nov 2018
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