Maddow Asks: Will Accelerating Climate Change Finally Change Us?
If you've tuned into MSNBC the past few days, you may have noticed they've ramped up their coverage of the climate-related disasters. Not only are they covering the disasters, they're tying it into the larger existential threat -- as Rachel Maddow did last night.
"Torrential flooding has just drenched the Northeast in the last 24 hours. There has been catastrophic flooding in parts of Vermont. Dozens of people have had to be evacuated or rescued from their homes so far. This is the town of Ludlow, Vermont, which the National Weather Service says got about a month's worth of rain in less than 24 hours yesterday. They got a six-inch rain dump in one day yesterday," she said.
That was less than what parts of New York got yesterday, she noted.
"The same storm dumped nine inches of rain in one day, in much of New York's Hudson Valley. At least one person in New York State has died. A 43-year-old woman officials say was trying to escape rising flood waters when she was swept away and killed. These images that we're showing of water just overtaking big parts of Vermont and New York, this may not be the worst of it.
"Rivers across the Northeast are expected to reach their highest peaks either late tonight or early tomorrow morning. There are still flood watches in effect in parts of Vermont and New York. Western New England just getting pounded. So that's what's going on in that part of the Northeast today.
In the Southwest, she said, it is the killing heat.