Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Climate change activists don’t discuss plane travel much for a reason - it’s going to be hard as hell to do anything about it, short of just not flying.

A Big Climate Problem With Few Easy Solutions: Planes

 

“Experts say commercial air travel accounts for about 3 to 4 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.”

How about we work on reducing the other 96 to 97 percent first?

 

Study blames climate change for 37% of global heat deaths

 

Careful Alma, you’re starting to sound like this guy



Or is that the point?

 

The West is already burning.

 

Saw it was 94 in Flagstaff yesterday, which is brutal heat for that city. It's at 7,000 feet, rarely breaks 85 and most homes--at least--don't have AC because it's generally not necessary in a place where it usually sits in the low 80s in the summer with less than 10 percent humidity. I think it hit 90 once in the eight years I lived there. Crazy.

 

More trouble for the Western power grid.

West Risks Blackouts as Drought Reduces Hydroelectric Power — The Wall Street Journal

 

I lived through a month of over 100 degree days in Houston. I don't think of Denver as being that kind of hot - although I'm certain that the humidity makes Houston worse.

 

In 2012 (I think) here in flyover country, we missed by a day or two a full month of at least 100 degree temps every day. It was the only summer of my life here where there was almost no humidity to go along with the heat. It was like being in Palm Springs.

 

Here comes the heat.

The West Coast Is About to Be Scary Hot