Climate change is real. Part of the problem is getting folks to realize that global warming does NOT mean it’s just hotter all the time everywhere. It means that the mean (or overall average) temperature is rising worldwide and is causing more extremes and worse severity in weather patterns. We’re getting hotter and more frequent heatwaves, stronger and more frigid arctic and/or polar air masses, stronger and more frequent hurricanes and monsoons, more nor’easters, more catastrophic draughts, more catastrophic flooding.

It seems environmental perspective is extremely myopic. Someone in Michigan sees five or six feet of snow on the ground in his immediate community and opines, “Where’s that global warming everyone’s talking about.” Mr. Michigan doesn’t seem able to connect the record draughts and heatwaves of the Summers in Australia at the same time he’s seeing record breaking snow levels in his own front yard as part of the same problem – climate change.