The future is here already.

This isn't about preparedness, the extreme  heat emergency is already here and right now California and the West are in dire straits.

Dangerous heat (click here) is possible for far inland parts of our area on Tuesday with an increasing risk for heat-related illnesses. Hydrate and take cooling breaks if you'll be outdoors. Avoid activities during the heat of the day if possible. Stay safe!

All 97 percent of climate scientists in the world say 2050 is too late. They are correct!

Stop denying the most dangerous issue of our day, the climate crisis.

August 15, 2022
By Denis Ohow and Nigel Ohiwaya

An "extreme heat belt" (click here) reaching as far north as Chicago is taking shape, a corridor that cuts through the middle of the country and would affect more than 107 million people over the next 30 years, according to new data on the country's heat risks.

The report, released Monday by the nonprofit research group First Street Foundation, found that within a column of America's heartland stretching from Texas and Louisiana north to the Great Lakes, residents could experience heat index temperatures above 125 degrees Fahrenheit by 2053 — conditions that are more commonly found in California's Death Valley or in parts of the Middle East....

Counting on 30 years as a cushion of time to get this right is foolishness. The crisis is now. 2053 is a calamity allowed to grow.

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Ask the people living it.

August 15, 2022

By Jakob Rogers

A burst of sweltering-hot weather (click here) is expected to bake the Bay Area and Northern California early this week, sending temperatures into the triple digits in many inland cities and exacerbating fire conditions across the region.

The brunt of the mini heat wave is expected to hit on Tuesday and Wednesday as a massive ridge of high pressure builds over much of the American West. The swell of hot weather prompted meteorologists on Monday to warn of the potential for heat-related illnesses in the coming days, especially for residents of inland cities....

The article is exactly correct. It is going to get worse, but, that doesn't mean today is less terrible than 30 years from now. Thirty years from now is deadly dangerous, today it is a danger human civilization can try to mitigate. Basically, in 30 years those lands of the map labeled 2053 are parched and unlivable. There is no sense in mitigating heat in 2053 with failing water resources.

2053 is not about real estate prices, it is about survival.

2053 means loss of civilization. Adding 30 years of hope to a heating PLANET is not hope at all.

There is talk about using the Mississippi River for water to the west. In the map above 2053 there is no Mississippi River. Decision makers do not listen. They simply want to find something to stick to the wall for the sake of politics. Climate is not politics, it is physics. How many decision makers are climate physicists in Washington, DC?