Changing Climate Change Stories

THE WESTERN THIRD of the United States was engulfed in a massive heat wave recently, the temperature in Death Valley reached one hundred and thirty degrees, a record unequaled since 1913.Farther east, a massive storm featuring straight line winds exceeding one hundred miles per hour devastated thousands of acres of farmland, destroyed buildings, and killed people. It was called a "rare" event, but may be decreasingly rare henceforth, as added atmospheric carbon traps and absorbs ever increasing amounts of heat, increasing evaporation and atmospheric moisture, energy, and motion. Farther east still, the hurricane season began with more numerous and more severe Atlantic storms, and the U.S. East coast,like the upper midwest, endured massive flooding. Just as scientists have long predicted, climate change is making the weather more extreme, more violent, everywhere. Climate change deniers, largely made up of the same right wing pseudo christian crowd which elected Trump, are on teh defensive. Their traditional refrain that climate change isn't happening has been supplanted by necessity to an acknowledgment that it is indeed changing, but naturally, they say, as it always has changed naturally, and that human activity has nothing to do with it. They can probably cling to that pathetic bromide ever after, but will eventually be forced by circumstances to choose between acceptance of disastrous consequences, or acknowledgment that humanity, even if not the cause, can and must do something about climate change. Would an admission that human action can ameliorate climate change to some degree be tantamount to admitting that homo sapiens can and did contribute to it? Logic says yes, the religious right, being the religious right, will likely say no. Consider the following scenario: through intense pressure applied by progressives, the scientific and corporate communities develop a plan to reverse climate change, and successfully implement it, saving the environment and the human species from extinction. The conservative Christian community chimes in with: we told you so. There was never a problem in the first place. Climate change was a liberal  hoax. At least we could live with that.