Socioeconomics — Climate Change
Why Climate Disasters Are Buried By The Media
The socio-economic trend of reporting on climate disasters
Have you ever been through a natural disaster? I have.
I’ve lived through countless tornados while growing up in North Dakota, the Nisqually earthquake in Seattle, and Hurricane Sandy in NY. They all sucked in different ways. The event may come in a different form and at a different speed, but the aftermath looks exactly the same for each. However, natural disasters has changed a bit in recent years. There are two wide spread phenomenon that are only just beginning to be reported. Disasters are headlines for a brief moment and then mainstream media ignores them just as fast.
The two weather phenomenon that are becoming mainstays are flash flooding and ‘heat domes’ (high pressure systems that cause high temperatures to become stagnant and remain for long periods). Yet, while heat domes are pretty well reported, flash flooding is so widespread, it’s under-reported. It’s almost impossible to keep up with.
Flash flooding occurs like an atmosphere quake. The sky rips open at a moments notice, and what used to be a normal storm, becomes an atmospheric bomb of rain. Such storms have become almost commonplace around the…
