It does not matter one iota whether Donald Trump’s regime believes in global warming or not. It’s happening, now, and far faster than our scientists hoped. Often these kinds of changes grow exponential, and there are some signs that it may be true. Trump is not going to ignore it, he will have to deal with it, no matter what he calls it. And so will we. Port Townsend is already having to deal with emergency jetty and break water repairs to have them last the winter. These costs are millions of dollars at a moment in time when our taxing authority has been limited due to Tim Eyman’s misguided initiatives.
“There are some really crazy things going on,” said Mark Serreze, director of the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado, saying temperatures in parts of the Arctic were 20 degrees Celsius (36°F) above normal some days in November.
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