I haven't been following it closely, but I know that the Buffalo area got something like 88 inches of snow over just a few days at the end of last week. And now the weather is turning a lot warmer, so they're expecting to add the problem of significant flooding to the problems of dangerously stranded people and collapsing roofs and assorted other calamities.
But as I read thru some of the articles posted online and as I browse thru the video reports being run on Big Media, I keep wondering how it is that nobody's asking, "When was the last time something like this happened?"
I've been in Buffalo during a Lake Effect snow storm, and I wanna tell ya, it's impressive watching 15 or 20 inches of snow pile up overnight, but here's the thing:
Seven Fucking Feet in about 2 ½ days
And yet nobody's the least bit curious that it might have anything to do with a little thing quaintly referred to as "Climate Change"?
It was said years ago that people had already been born who would die as a result of catastrophic disruptions due to shifting global climate patterns. Well, there're at least a dozen dead because of this storm, which means Climate Change is (and actually has been) killing Americans. And here we sit doing nothing but watching coin-operated politicians and corporate managers and lobbyists and press poodles playing grab-ass in the mud for another 2 years?
We are so very fucked.
But as I read thru some of the articles posted online and as I browse thru the video reports being run on Big Media, I keep wondering how it is that nobody's asking, "When was the last time something like this happened?"
I've been in Buffalo during a Lake Effect snow storm, and I wanna tell ya, it's impressive watching 15 or 20 inches of snow pile up overnight, but here's the thing:
Seven Fucking Feet in about 2 ½ days
And yet nobody's the least bit curious that it might have anything to do with a little thing quaintly referred to as "Climate Change"?
It was said years ago that people had already been born who would die as a result of catastrophic disruptions due to shifting global climate patterns. Well, there're at least a dozen dead because of this storm, which means Climate Change is (and actually has been) killing Americans. And here we sit doing nothing but watching coin-operated politicians and corporate managers and lobbyists and press poodles playing grab-ass in the mud for another 2 years?
We are so very fucked.
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