Drenching

IT HAPPENS MORE AND MORE OFTEN. In some innocent town, city, or locale, the folks are minding their own business, on an ordinary day, when, suddenty, it starts raining, and refuses to stop. Inch after inch of driving rain pelts down, until a foot or more has fallen, and everything to the horizon is a solid lake, everything underwater. The results are always catastrophic: billions of dollars of damage, lost property, dozens of lives lost, if not more. Just within the past couple of weeks this has happened to St. Louis, western Kentucky, Dallas, and even Death Valley, California, among the hottest driest places on Earth, usually. Its also happening all over the world, this pattern of sudden, excesssive rainfall in extreme amounts, then, flooding, destructon,and death. it happened in Seoul, South Korea. And it all makes perfect sense, is easily explainable, and scientist of all sorts, from climate scientists to meteorologists, have been predicting and warning us for decades: that this would inevitably happen. The more heat there is in the atmosphere, the more mosture the atmosphere holds, and the more often the occurrence of these intense rain events. In a word, climate change, Its that simple, and its happening right in front of our faces. The new normal is extreme droughts over wide spread areas, with the wildifres and all that, and, the more violent storms, more intense, heavier rainfall events. The droughts and wildfires are also happening all over the world; throughout much of Europe, including Spain, Portugal, France, and Italy, as well as Australia, China, and Africa. Its bad now; not a day goes by during which we don't hear about one climate change disaster or another. Not only that, but climate science is now able to determine precisely which extreme weather events are caused by climate change, and to what extent. Almost all of them are. Very recently Congress passed a large spending bill with a lot of money included to fight climate change, mainly by installing solar and wind energygenerating facilities and halping the electric car industry. Every Republican in Congress voted against it, just as generally every Republican votes against any bill intended to fight climate change. That seems insane, and in fact is, and the question is: why? Conservatism embraces tradition, and resists change, is why. Time is rnning out to save the atmosphere, and may have already run out. Over the next few years, starting now, the weather and climate both are only going to become worse, more extreme, more inhospitable. Electing Republicans, from here on, can only be described as a climate disaster.