Climate change's coal-smudged fingerprints

A survey of heat-related news from across the West

🥵 Aridification Watch 🐫

Writing about weather in the climate crisis-era is like navigating an obstacle course littered with critics. One faction chides me if I write about insane rainstorms and flash flooding without attributing them to human-caused climate change; another blasts me for bringing up climate change too often, whether it’s to explain an e…