I attended a presentation about the effects of increasing extreme weather events on infrastructure and the potential to amplify weather related disasters by a meteorologist from the Department of Homeland Security . Before the presentation I was asking myself why DHS has a meteorologist and by 5 minutes in I was in shock at the depth of the information presented and the number of national security risks presented by more frequent outlier storms and droughts. This presentation was based on existing events and did not speculate about causes of climate change . It was one of the best presentations I've ever seen and it saddens and scares me that such a vastly intelligent person and her coworkers are getting shit canned because of a narrow and poorly thought out ideology . We are magnificently fucked.
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Before the presentation I was asking myself why DHS has a meteorologist
When you think about it, aside from 9/11, natural disasters have done far more physical damage to the US than any foreign power in recent history lol
Even stuff outside disasters , like she pointed out that protracted heat waves can stress the power supplies and cooling systems of data centers and potentially break the internet. It was a terrifying presentation, and it was the keynote. She finished and the room was silent for a while.