Global Flash Flood Warnings: Earth’s Inconvenient RSVP to the Climate Party
Flash Flood Warning: The Planet’s Latest Party Trick By our soaked correspondent, still wringing out the passport GENEVA—Somewhere between the 37th climate summit and the 847th “once-in-a-century” downpour of the decade, the World Meteorological Organization quietly upgraded its vocabulary. “Cloudburst” was deemed too quaint, “inundation” too bureaucratic. The new lingua franca is the blunt, all-caps…
