Environment

A local resident gestures as he holds an empty water hose during an attempt to extinguish forest fires approaching the village of Pefki on Evia (Euboea) island, Greece's second-largest island, on August 8, 2021. (Photo: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP via Getty Images). When will the pain of climate change become too great to ignore any longer and will it then be too late? TOM ENGELHARDT In recent weeks, a newly emboldened right-wing Supreme Court struck down a more than century-old New York law restricting the carrying of concealed weapons and a nearly 50-year-old precedent on abortion.  Meanwhile, the January 6th Committee has been laying out in graphic televised detail how our last president tried to subvert the 2021 election.  Inflation, of course, co...

BY GEORGE OCHENSKI Yellowstone flooding. Photo: National Park Service. Humans have a tendency to believe everything will be pretty much the same in the future as it has been in the past. No surprise since generally speaking that was pretty true in the past and while things changed, they did not change so radically or with such severe consequences as they are now. Scientists, who have long warned about the unpredictability of a human-impacted global climate now point to the extreme conditions seen in Montana while the southern half of the nation bakes in an unprecedented heat wave as conclusive proof that the “new normal” will actually be the “new abnormal.” Four months ago Montana was looking at going into its second year of extreme drought. Municipalities were warning their ...