Ending Normal Days

 TWO TOO EXTREME weather events occurred side by side in the great American west just recently which defy logic and meteorological tradition, and make one's hair rise in dread and horror. On the west coast, an extreme heat wave, more intense than any before seen, sent temperatures soaring in big cities into the one hundred and twenties, for days at a time, helping to touch off the apocalyptic wild fires so much in the news of late. Simultaneously, a huge super frigid cold and wet front came plummeting down from the Arctic, and into the Colorado Rocky Mountain zone, which resulted in Denver's temperature plunging from a hot dry one hundred degrees to a snow filled twenty degrees in less than twenty four hours. Talk about a sudden change in wardrobe. The clashing weather systems made for meteorological mayhem out west.The extremity of all this is, as always, exactly in keeping with predictions scientists having been making, and we have been ignoring, for decades. For our conservative friends, there is one silver lining: the air quality in Portland, Oregon, along with the rest of the Northwest, became so choked with soot that it became the worst air on Earth, worse than even huge coal burning cities in India and China. This meant that the Black Lives Matter protests on Portland, which had gone on uninterrupted for four months, were severely hampered, as the participants, covered in soot and choking, were scarcely able to see each other or read their protest signs, let along make an y impression on the rest of the world. This has not been reported in the media, there's too much else to talk about, but the streets of Portland are now wide open, available for conquest by Trump's storm troopers and all many of right wing militia groups and their confederate flags, swastikas,  bibles, and assault rifles. Climate change is here, and here to stay, as are massive wild fires, which are already spreading all over the world, including soon into the Eastern United States. Laughably, tragically, much of the conservative evangelical community will and already has begun to proclaim that all this devastation, all this human misery, is God's wrath and judgment for something utterly unrelated, like, say, the existence of gay people. That, of course, is sheer deranged lunacy, of the usual sort. Meanwhile, a majority of the Republican party still clings to its deranged belief that climate change is either a liberal or Chinese hoax, they are't' sure which, and president Trump goes toddling right along, appointed people who see no problem with the environment to environmental jobs . Many of Trump's evangelical followers still insist that climate change is a moot issue, because, whether or not the climate is actually changing will never matter, because the lord, with fiery chariot and terrible swift sword, is soon to return, and rapture all the believers into heaven, leaving behind the poor misguided liberals and climate scientists who should have kept their mouths and computers shut in the first place, voted for Trump the savior, and waited, along with the elect, for the smell of a fiery chariot lighting up the sky as it plunged towards Earth, and the end of normal days.