The above is how, in 1988, comedian Mort Sahl said the New York Times would headline the end of the world. That came to mind when I saw this headline from the Los Angeles Times. The headline is, of course, related to global warming. As the article says, The study , which was published Monday [Halloween, naturally] in the journal Nature Sustainability, does not predict when the next 100-year flood will occur. However, the paper is among the first to examine how whiplashing weather extremes due to climate change may impact the Los Angeles Basin — a region whose development was guided by deep social and racial divisions that favored white residents. In the Los Angeles Basin, researchers found that Black, Latino, and Asian residents were — respectively— 79%, 17%, and 11% more likely than white residents to be exposed to waist-high flooding. The projected storm simply does not and will not exist. There is no such thing as a storm that produces a uniform amount of rain ove...