The deadly future that scientists warned us about is here. For years, climate scientists modeled how if we made the earth hotter, that heat had consequences. Unrelenting heat dries vegetation and makes it more likely to burn. It warms the oceans, increasing the fuel available for tropical cyclones.
Large parts of the American West are currently on fire. Hundreds of homes have been destroyed. At least seven people are dead in different states. An unknown number are missing. Tens of thousands remain under evacuation orders.
The signs are ominous as yet another climate record is reached. California is once again burning. From near the southern Mexico border, to San Diego and the forests of the Sierra Nevada over two million acres of the sunshine state were on fire yesterday.
The British Government, as hosts of COP26, had an opportunity to show real climate leadership and start a just transition away from fossil fuels. But they just offered over 100 drilling licenses
The once mighty Exxon has just suffered the corporate humiliation of being booted out the highly influential Dow Jones Industrial Index.
As we have been repeatedly saying for months, we are witnessing the end of the oil age. Even once great giants are now crumbling at their core.
