On this hottest day of the year in the NW, as I sit under an umbrella having taken in a bit too much sun, I was forwarded this article about global warming, and it’s affect on the US. This excellent three part article is about the best layman’s overview of how climate change is here, now. And what it means to us. While there are always going to be people who continue to claim that this isn’t real, just like there were people who claimed for centuries that the earth was still flat, we can only work to get our local and state politicians to make the hard choices that are needed to get us prepared.
Here on the Olympic Peninsula, if severe drought hits us, like it is in other parts of the country, we will lose our water supplies. Think it’s impossible? It happened out at the Makah reservation a few years back, when they had to truck water in.
More violent and frequent storms, once merely a prediction of climate models, are now a matter of observation. Part 1 of a three-part series