Nearly 50 million Americans are set to face triple-digit temperature this week amid a sprawling dome of heat that will engulf most of the southern United States. Heat advisories are in effect in Florida, Texas and New Mexico, while excessive heat watches and warnings blanket much of Arizona, Southern California and Nevada. Washington Post, July 10, 2023.

Last week, maybe the week before last week, our Earth was the hottest it has been since we’ve been keeping records. This is not an outlier, this is the future our world is moving into. This is the future we are going to have to live in.

Our politicians – the world’s politicians and the world’s autocrats, almost everybody governing, really – are acting like Nero while Rome burned so this is a good time to email them. I know that there are people who don’t believe that we are in a worldwide global climate crisis. Hell, there are people who still believe, or say they believe, the world is flat but they have to work pretty hard at it. It takes a lot of data ignoring to think the world is flat.

Like flat-worlders, anybody who doesn’t believe we are in a climate crisis and that the crisis is getting worse every day has to work at it. They have to disbelieve 99% of the world’s climate scientists. They have to disbelieve the Catholic Church, the Department of Defence, the Department of Transportation, etc…I’m going to skip making a long list here because the real answer is that virtually everybody who has studied the climate knows we are in a man-made crisis.

If the climate is an issue for you, let your government know that. Tell your Congressperson and Senators you are going to vote based on what they do to help us survive. If it is not an issue, ask your kids or grandkids if it is an issue for them. That’s pretty much all I have to say. Register, VOTE.