2020-09-22 | The United States Has Become a Disaster Area - The Atlantic
'Climate change raises sea levels, triggering coastal flooding as estuaries back up with water. '
'Researchers who study this tangled web of crises call them “cascading disasters”—disasters that trigger other disasters like falling dominoes. '
'My heart sank as I imagined that wind feeding oxygen to the wildfires that still rage in my area. '
'The interwoven causality and relentless pace of disasters in 2020 is changing the way many of us think about them. '
'Many risk analysts, though, still treat each disaster as a discrete event, according to Amir AghaKouchak at UC Irvine and Farshid Vahedifard at Mississippi State University. '
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'Climate change raises sea levels, triggering coastal flooding as estuaries back up with water. '
'Researchers who study this tangled web of crises call them “cascading disasters”—disasters that trigger other disasters like falling dominoes. '
'My heart sank as I imagined that wind feeding oxygen to the wildfires that still rage in my area. '
'The interwoven causality and relentless pace of disasters in 2020 is changing the way many of us think about them. '
'Many risk analysts, though, still treat each disaster as a discrete event, according to Amir AghaKouchak at UC Irvine and Farshid Vahedifard at Mississippi State University. '
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