David Wallace-Wells
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And there were mudslides, lethal mudslides in Santa Barbara, where a number of people were killed.
Now, exactly where this stuff falls geographically is a bit chancy.
Like, we don't know whether...
Los Angeles is going to have a more intense experience of El Nino than San Diego, for instance.
That's, you know, a lot of this is climate, but a lot of this is weather, and a lot of that is left up to chance.
But as always with climate disasters, it's the most vulnerable who bear the brunt of the impact and the relatively privileged who are able to protect themselves from it.
That's not an absolute rule, but in general.
the people who are exposed to climate disaster or the people who are exposed to all of the ravages of the modern world, which is to say, you know, poor, browner, less educated.
And in that sense, I think we can expect El Nino to arrive as a, you know, grotesque, as a sort of nightmare of our social pathologies.
Yeah, well, the easiest way to measure it is to say that it set all of these global temperature records.
And...
produced a ton of heat waves, and this one is on track to be larger.
It's on track to be larger than every El Niño on record, going back to the ones in the 1880s and 1870s.
So exactly how that will have particular effects on crops and heat waves and droughts in particular parts of the world, a lot of this is rolling the dice.
But we are looking at a more intense El Niño
on top of a considerably higher global average temperature baseline in a world that is remarkably exposed still all of these decades after we started worrying about warming, remarkably exposed still to the ravages of climate impacts.
And on that point, I mean, you know, I don't want to dwell too much on the experience or the example of the L.A.
fires from last year, but I do think it's really illustrative.
And I think it just reminds us that, you know, yes, climate has differential impacts.
Yes, it does punish the poor and poorly resourced more than those who can do something to protect themselves.
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