Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Water and Heat
If you go to a library with old newspapers-- something I love to do-- it's hard not to realize that crazy weather, even dangerous weather, is nothing new. There have always been a blizzard here, a hurricane there, drought in one place and floods in another.
What's new, according to scientists, is the pace of these events as they happen more often. Right now we have crazy heat in the southwest and crazy floods in Vermont (pictured above, without a flood).
The costs of dealing with these weather events, driven by climate change, are going to soon become even more significant. Will that be the turning point away from some of our most destructive habits?
