Tsunami hits the media like a big wave
This Tsunami story seems to be getting a lot of media play.
Not that it isn't a big story, but (it seems to me at least) historically people aren't that interested in international disasters. Another sign that media and people's relationship to the news has really changed.
Does it seems unusual that the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings was such a huge event, and yet total deaths were roughly just over 1/2 of the amount of people who died in Paris, France a couple of summers ago? All due to an unprecedented heat wave in Paris.
Did the US government start a campaign against global warming? Elect a department of homeland climatology?
No, in fact the US government had stepped outside of the Kyoto protocol. The fragile international cooperation, based on great data provided by the IPCC(International Panel of Climate Change), could have used some US leadership.
But no.
Does anybody remember the cyclone that killed over 30,000 in Bangladesh a little over a decade ago?
No? Kinda? Well that's because it was in 1991, and over 100,000 people got kilt.
I searched and according to Wiki that Bangladesh cyclone killed over 100,000 people in 1991. Another sign that media has really changed. Perhaps our focus as a culture has seemed to have improved. Either that or people must must be anxious to turn from the bad news coming from Iraq.
With the death toll from this last tsunami at over 80,000 and climbing you'd think you would have felt a great disturbance in the force.
Apparently, the animals did feel a disturbance and went looking for the modern Noah.
Does anybody remember the the great Tokyo earthquake?. More accurately known as the great Kanto earthquake.
Over 100,000 people died in 1923. Many died from firestorms that were created.
All this of course makes me think of the fact that sea levels have been rising in India for some time. We are going to see a lot more of this as the earth heats up, as science expects it to.
I remember hearing that global warming might spur on earthquakes as the oceans, and earth's crust heat up. This Russian news agency appears to agree with that possibility. Taking these sorts of patterns into consideration, I don't believe anyone can still question this. Those that do are starting to look increasingly ridiculous. I do not attribute this to apophenia.
We have been already seeing a lot of these: (check links)
Tsunamis, hurricanes, and typhoons.
Okay typhoons and hurricanes are pretty much the same. But I include the Japanese word typhoon, because they have had a record year here. With the maximum number of typhoons reaching landfall. Between Japan and Florida, we should be starting to get the picture.
Update
Well, I took down this post, thinking it was a little too convoluted, but put it back up after someone complained. It does, however, appear that this is a really incredible disaster as the death toll hits 155,000+ . I don't want this to seem like I'm downplaying the tragedy, so go to Oxfam and make a donation.
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