Harvey Wont Be The Last Thousand-Year Storm

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

Yet it’s sobering to remember that almost exactly a year ago, that we were talking about the last “thousand year flood” that hit Louisiana that August, and the “thousand year flood” that left West Virginia and Texas underwater just a few months before.
This is the reality of climate chaos looks like now: a series of unprecedented catastrophes, each one more severe than the last.

To read more:

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/09/01/harvey-wont-be-last-thousand-year-storm

The US corporate media specializes in the decontextualized method of reporting and analysis, wherein every incident is treated as totally unrelated to every other similar incident. This holds true for gun violence, and economic news, and tax policy, and most other issues.
In the case of weather and climate, if there are constant "thousand year" weather events, the corporate media will avoid any linking of such events to climate change because the corporate media relies on corporate advertising.

[guillaumeb]

1. And, in a moment of unintended irony:

Just ten days before Harvey hit land in Texas, Donald Trump signed an executive order that eliminated the federal flood risk management standard that asked agencies to account for climate change projections when they approved projects, effectively killing a rule that was designed to protect cities from flood risks.

from the same article.