Albatross, masked boobies, black noddies
and other seabirds called East Island home.
Extreme weather it is what roars back at us from the ever-worsening fringe of climate events. This is among the scariest features of rapid climate change: not that it changes the everyday experience of the world, though it does that, and dramatically; but that it makes once-unthinkable outlier events much more common, and ushers whole new categories of disaster into the realm of the possible. The result is a radically accelerated experience of extreme weather — what was once centuries’ worth of natural disaster compressed into just a decade or two. In the case of Hawaii’s East Island, which disappeared underwater during a single hurricane, into a day or two.
