The cascade of climate extremes thus far this summer calls out for a new type of disaster reporting. Over the past month, reporters on the weather “disaster” beat could barely catch their breath in the face of the heat, floods, fires, the disturbances in ocean currents and numerous other climate-related catastrophes.
Many a fine wordsmith has mastered the skills of on-the-scene description of such individual disasters. But traditional disaster reporting no longer seems adequate when such events are happening all at once.
