Reaching people who believe extreme weather events are 'natural'

What do you do when people aren’t taking the climate crisis seriously? You make them part of the problem. That’s the narrative-altering tack taken by Act of Man, a new nonpartisan climate coalition and social activation that’s shifting the vocabulary around so-called “natural” disasters to center the increasingly essential role of human climate change in extreme weather — weather that should more accurately be called “unnatural.” SEE ALSO: Online experts you can trust for Hurricane Milton info Getting real on the state of the climateThe scope and frequency of “unnatural disasters” is convincing enough for the linguistic shift. In 2022, Americans endured the most active year for extreme weather events ever recorded in the U.S. Among drought, wildfire, and winter storm crises, the country fielded nine severe weather events, two tornado outbreaks, three tropical cyclones (hurricanes), and one mass flooding event — these 18 events totaled $165 billion dollars in damage.This year, as two life-threatening hurricanes touched down on the southeastern United States in the span of just one month, the country has already broken that record. An August report from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information details 20 confirmed weather and climate disaster events. Those are just the disasters happening at large scale, each totaling more than $1 billion in damages. More important than the numbers: Communities from coast to coast are still dealing with the repercussions. Conspiracy theorists would have you believe that this hurricane season — which has already led to the deaths of more than 200 people and displaced…Reaching people who believe extreme weather events are 'natural'