The 'storm of ingorance' - George Monbiot

It’s as if it had come to remind us of what’s at stake. While the climate negotiations in Paris trudge their dreary road, Storm Desmond takes a great boot to our backsides. Yet still we fail to make the connection. The news records the spectacle and ignores the implications.

"Storm Desmond" creates
chaos in Cumbria.

Rainfall on this scale used to be described as a one-in-100 year, or 200-year, or 1000-year event. But in Cumbria, where some 30cm (nearly certain that figure should be 300cm – Robert McLean) of rain fell in 24 hours, this is the third such catastrophe since 2005. Exceptional events are, perhaps, no longer exceptional.

Read George Monbiot’s - “A Storm of Ignorance.”