You can’t make this up. Or if you did, it wouldn’t seem credible. And yet, here it is.
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Climate change has been taken off the political table – at least in America. Didn’t even come up during the presidential debates: the issue that dare not speak its name. The denial industry, as documented in last week’s Frontline, has been so effective, it has declared victory.
So who could have come up with a storyline for something like a Frankenstorm and then schedule it for election week? Too implausible. No sense of subtlety. Even laughable.
But depending on how and when it hits, no one will be joking – certainly not Bill McKibben:
Watching Sandy on her careening path toward the Eastern Seaboard scares me more than it would have 15 months ago. That’s because my home state took the brunt of Irene, last year’s “sprawling,” “surly,” “record-breaking” Atlantic storm. I know now exactly how much power a warm sea can contain and how far that pain can spread.
And in the process, feeling that fear, I begin to sense what the future may be like, as more and more of the world finds itself facing ever-more-frequent assaults from the amped-up forces of the not-so-natural world. …
Our relationship to the world around us is shifting as fast as that world is shifting. “Frankenstorm” is the right name for Sandy, and indeed for many other storms and droughts and heat waves now. They’re stitched together from some spooky combination of the natural and the unnatural. Some state will doubtless bear the brunt of this particular monster, but it also will do its damage to everyone’s state of mind.
Weather Network “Alert” Icon flashing. What could it be? Apparently the alert is BC weather is heading east to join in. Hurricane, cold front, and ‘rain tapering to showers’ courtesy of BC.
Verbatim…
“Low pressure on Canada’s west coast may influence Hurricane Sandy’s track
Sandy is expected to make an unprecedented hook into the northeastern U.S. coast — but the location of that hook will have a lot to do with a disturbance on the coast of British Columbia.
A low pressure system that’s causing rain on the west coast is digging down and tracking towards the U.S.
It will eventually intersect with Sandy — and that will determine when and where the storm makes its left-hand turn.
Presidents make no mention of climate Change, then hurricane and Arctic Storm Smashes into Washington. Karma? On one hand, we hope that this storm is too large to handle, delaying the election and causing billions in damage, (to teach the US a lesson); but on the other hand, we hope that no one gets hurt (because we’re so kind aren’t we?).
If this be a large felonious storm, let it be a lesson to the US that we must stop the path we are on. 🙂