{"id":65715,"date":"2023-08-31T06:17:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T11:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65715"},"modified":"2023-08-31T06:17:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T11:17:16","slug":"climate-change-is-redrawing-the-disaster-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65715","title":{"rendered":"Climate change is redrawing the disaster map"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Climate change is redrawing the disaster map<\/a><\/h3>\n

From tropical storms to wildfires, climate disasters aren\u2019t confined to the places we\u2019re used to seeing them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Vehicles and housing structures are partially submerged after Tropical Storm Hilary flooded a community of unhoused people on August 21st, 2023, in Cathedral City, California.\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption>
\u00a0Photo by Mario Tama \/ Getty Images<\/cite><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Disasters have no borders, and a summer of unexpected catastrophe across the US shows it. California is notorious for drought and fire, not tropical storms like Hilary that barreled over Los Angeles this week. The East Coast expects hurricanes, not the pollution nightmare triggered by smoke that drifted in from blazes hundreds of miles away. Hawaii\u2019s native greenery isn\u2019t supposed to burn, and yet fires engulfed Maui.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Climate change is sending new calamities to new places \u2014 a phenomenon that can be observed not just in the US but all over the world. It\u2019s piling disaster upon disaster on communities figuring out how to adapt to these new realities. Often, they\u2019re faced with some new crisis while still recovering from a previous one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Climate change is redrawing the disaster map From tropical storms to wildfires, climate disasters aren\u2019t confined to the places we\u2019re used to seeing them. Vehicles and housing structures are partially submerged after Tropical Storm Hilary flooded a community of unhoused people on August 21st, 2023, in Cathedral City, California.\u00a0\u00a0Photo by Mario Tama \/ Getty Images […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[140,141,33921,22509],"class_list":["post-65715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-justine-calma","tag-the-verge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65716,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65715\/revisions\/65716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}