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Americans, and Floridians in particular, are about to face one of the first truly monumental and undeniable manifestations of climate change as hurricane Milton makes landfall. A manifestation so powerful that no amount of thoughts, prayers, and burying one’s head in the sand can shield oneself from its effects. The only hope is to evacuate, flee as far away as possible from its path, and become a climate refugee, even for a few days or weeks. When the proverbial dust settles, and people eventually return to their homes, they’ll struggle to identify which slab of concrete was once theirs, among a barren moonscape from which all wildlife will have been violently erased. Most residents will rebuild, insurance premiums will go up, and life will pretend to return to some normalcy until the next Cat 5 turns up, probably much sooner than legacy probabilistic models would have anticipated.

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Cynical polymarket: Deniers will say this is weather, not climate. Anyway hoping for everyone’s safety. Strong belief people will gather in support.

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It’s ok, the cynics will soon understand from the increasing frequency and intensity of such events that the climate is nothing more than the long-term trend in weather. And, therefore, that consistent changes in seasonal weather map onto to a long signal of climate change. Hurricane Helene was barely two weeks ago. The tornado alley is moving east to new territories in the US. Europe is going to start receiving hurricanes from the Atlantic. All of this is becoming more obvious and undeniable. I think the biggest cognitive challenge will come from people normalizing this climatic “new normal” and claiming that it was always this volatile, either due to short-term memory (young people not knowing anything different) or a new form of denialism (i.e., climate revisionism).

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You’re describing political climate, rather than political weather.

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