Mainstream weather reports seem to be making more and more natural references to climate. I notice this from Montenegro where I am at the moment. The floods in Italy are routinely connected to climate change. Agency however is not mentioned. And the tendency is strong to say “Worst flood in fifty years”, and its many variations. This language has the unfortunate underlying assumption that such major floods as we experience now are cyclical, (this language is used in other contexts such as “This is hte best book about human nature in many years.” One wonders what that book was. I wonder if chatbots make this error)
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