Post-tropical storm Hermine is the story of the emergence of weather chimeras.
Simple. The forecasting precedents have changed. We cannot look to the past to anticipate the future any longer. We’re playing by different rules. And we don’t know what their implications are, because the experiment has never been run before. We’re running it. And we have no idea what will happen.
But we’re continuing it nonetheless. This hasn’t been anticipated. This hasn’t be war-gamed.
See also Eric Holthaus’ opinion, and another view he has, about risk.
Welcome to the Hyper Anthropocene.
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