Friday, September 15, 2017

How to make friends and influence people after big hurricanes

Hard to forget EPA petroleum industry captive-in-chief Scott Pruitt's toweringly stupid remark after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma's record-setting rains:
 “To have any kind of focus on the cause and effect of the storm versus helping people, or actually facing the effect of the storm, is...very, very insensitive..."
But since NASA has this to say about climate change and its effects - - 
Projections of future climate over the U.S. suggest that the recent trend towards increased heavy precipitation events will continue. 
- - here's a way that officials in states like Wisconsin where there has been repetitive major storm damage, 

and surely in hurricane-prone Florida where the phrase "climate change" is verboten can communicate productively with storm victims without being "very insensitive."

Officials should not mention climate change when meeting with or hugging storm victims. 


Officials should instead say "p
rojections of future climate over the U.S. suggest that the recent trend towards increased heavy precipitation events will continue" when meeting with or hugging storm victims.


That'll be helpful and effective.

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