Getting Hotter, Fast

JULY 2021 was the hottest month ever, globally, by a wide margin, nearly two degrees. The four previous hottest months all occured within the past five years. that means that climate chang is real, and repidly accelerating, far more rapidly than any scientist would have thought possible. "Nor is it "natural". Not only has science conclusively proven that it is "human made", but science has advanced to the point where individual weather events can be attributed to climate change, and the degree to whcih they are caused by it. At sixty six, but in good health, I am now beginning to thinkd that I may live long enough to experience the truly catastrophic impact of global warming, which is almost certianly to arrive in the near future, unless drastic action is taken now, which, so it seems, it will not be. Until recently I had assumed that i would be dead before the nightmare, which has already begun, truly begins. I'm retired, and financially secure, but am considering a new career, one final career, as a solar energy sales person. That would keep me off the streets, and allow me to contribute to the transition to sustainable energy. Why not? If nothing else, I can say that I went down fighting. We should all have solar energy on our roof tops. I plant trees. I bought a lot, built a house, and planted saplings all around. They are now grown, and well worth the effort. The trees cool the house and keep the electric bill so low that it wouldn't be efficient enough for me to install solor, ironically. I've published dozens of essays on this website over the past ten years on climate change, and each one begins with the same remark: we just experienced the hottest month in history. It is necessary to repeat that fact, and it bears repeating. There isn't much new to say about climate change, other than the fact that unless humnanty changes its behavior now, the Earth will within a few hundred years resemble Venus, a planet on which the average temperature isa above eight hundred degrees, and the atmosphere is almost pure CO2. Noam Chomsky said that there isn't a word evil enough to convey the evil of people who, though already wealthy, keep trying to queeze more and more profit from fossil fuels, fully aware of the impact on the Earth, on people, and on the future of each. A more true comment was never made. I despise people who refuse to acknowledge the reality of human made climate change, even more than I despise people who support Donald Trump, even after he tried to overthrow the government and stay in power after his election defeat. It is virtuous to despise that which is despicable.