Judging from the above picture, it looks like Mother Nature, spurred on by climate change, is about to remove some units from the available housing stock and make some more humans homeless.  

Above is a Google Maps snapshot of my old home location in Champlin, MN. The air quality is in the 200-300 category. It never got this bad when I lived there last year. Extensive wildfires in Ontario are generating this smoke, and combine with the excessive 84 deg and I would have a good reason not to go outdoors today. 

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/16/weather/canada-wildfire-smoke-air-quality 

Emergency in Ontario:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/weather/ontario-canada-wildfires.html 

Wow! The NYT used the phrase “climate change” on its front page this morning! 

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/climate/national-academies-extreme-weather-attribution.html 

Not reported in the Western press of course, the super El Nino is threatening Africa. This article details some of the dire economic impacts that El Nino is expected to inflict across Asia and Africa this coming year.  – https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/14/record-el-nino-threatens-to-unleash-floods-across-east-africa-and-asia 

May 20th: renewable energy: a hopeful story about Denmark's success in selling renewable energy technology and moving towards sustainability. In spite of the orange fascist’s attempt to do away with it. – https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-denmarks-wind-and-solar-investments-shield-it-from-global-energy-turmoil

May 4th doubling down: another story about the Trump regime's efforts to shut down wind farms – https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-the-trump-administration-is-paying-nearly-a-billion-dollars-to-abandon-wind-farms 

May 3rd: flooding there is widespread flooding in Aleppo and a damn collapsed due to heavy rains in the area. – https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EPdjM6lUm1Q&pp=0gcJCVACo7VqN5tD 

April 27th wildfires: severe out of control wildfires in southern Georgia and Florida continue unabated in spite of a little bit of rain this weekend. Still no mention of climate change in the reporting.  – https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/04/27/georgia-wildfire-doubles-size-evacuations-brantley-fire/89817774007/ 

April 23rd wildfires: the wildfires and damage continue in southern Georgia. Nobody is talking about climate change however. – https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/southern-u-s-wildfires-force-hundreds-of-residents-to-flee 

April 22: wildfires Florida Georgia and the southeast are suffering from an extreme unprecedented wildfire season. – https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/22/georgia-florida-wildfires 

April 16th: extreme weather: there's extreme weather going on all over the United States from hail tornadoes and extreme heat. –https://weather.com/forecast/regional/video/april-heat-wave-breaking-records-thursday-friday-saturday 

April 15th: extreme weather: a record heatwave across the east coast is expected to shatter many high temperature records in the next few days – https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxweather.com/weather-news/more-than-150-records-poised-broken-spring-heat-bakes-nearly-30-million-people-east.amp 

April 14th: extreme weather: super typhoon Sinlaku, the strongest storm of the year so far with winds of 150 mph hit the Marianas Islands. – https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/super-typhoon-sinlaku-pounds-remote-u-s-islands-in-the-pacific-ocean-with-ferocious-winds 

April 9th: the emperor penguins are now on the endangered species list. 

March 2026 was the warmest march on record. Temperature records were broken during the month. 

April 6th flooding: 10 days of relentless rains have contributed to destructive flooding in areas of Afghanistan. The magnitude 5 earthquake did not help. –https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.com/amp/International/wireStory/death-toll-extreme-weather-afghanistan-increases-110-131767015 

March 26th extreme weather: a PBS report on how climate change has affected the extreme heat wave affecting the American southwest  – https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-climate-change-has-powered-the-heat-wave-blanketing-much-of-the-u-s 

March 24th 2026 flooding – a PBS story about Jakarta which is sinking fast due to over-development and climate change – https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/jakarta-rapidly-sinks-as-climate-change-and-overdevelopment-collide 

March 20th 2026 flooding: record flooding in Hawaii continues for another week. – https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/news-wrap-deadlock-over-dhs-funding-shows-no-signs-of-ending  

March 19, 2026 – Drought and/or extreme weather: According to this article in the Atlantic, the American West is facing unprecedented heat and drought this summer. Historically low snowpack and record breaking temperatures in February & March. Climate change in action.  – https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/03/west-heat-wave/686457/ 

March 19th – extreme weather – the town of North shore California has tied the national record for the all-time high temperature in a month of March. 108 degrees – https://weather.com/forecast/regional/news/2026-03-18-historic-march-heat-wave-west-plains-california-arizona 

March 19th, 2026 doubling down: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/climate/epa-endangerment-states-lawsuit.html 

March 18th – Doubling Down: The Trump regime is weighing a $1 billion deal to cancel several offshore wind farms – https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/climate/offshore-wind-settlements-trump.html 

March 16th extreme weather: extreme weather across the United States continues today –https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/news-wrap-chaotic-weather-system-delays-u-s-travelers 

4-27-25 impact on archeology:  climate change threatens to destroy precious archaeological artifacts in the Arctic – https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JW3r7r5m8ts 

• Rights of Nature – https://sdgs.un.org/partnerships/rights-nature-catalyst-implementation-sustainable-development-agenda-water#:~:text=Rights%20of%20Nature%20is%20a,SGD%2015)%2C%20among%20others.
• Things look bleak at COP-29. Nobody’s coming. On top of that, with Trump’s reelection, climate change mitigation is in the “Game Over” stage. I predict that emissions will eventually fall. That will happen as the fossil-fuel economy starts to collapse. – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/11/11/cop29-baku-azerbaijan-un-climate-conference-2024/ 
• Instead of phasing out fossil fuels, the planet’s leading companies and countries are accelerating the extraction and burning of fossil fuels. Full speed in reverse! (Humans are too greedy and stupid to rescue themselves from their self-generated predicament. – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/11/10/cop29-climate-conference-fossil-fuels-pledge/

• 4-8-25 Doubling Down:  This is an example of environmental destruction denial, along with climate change denial. The message here is: Destruction of the environment is another ultra-leftist fairy tale. Let’s double down on turning our carbon absorbing, wildlife refuge forests into highly profitable board-feet of lumber. – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/04/05/trump-administration-orders-half-national-forests-open-logging/ 
• 4-8-25 Doubling Down: Reversing course on coal burning. The Orange Garbage Can signed an executive order intended to revive a dying coal power industry. According to the article, it most likely will have little effect, but the message is clear: Up with climate change denial and on with a return to the good old days! – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/04/08/coal-executive-orders-trump/ 
• 4-8-25 Doubling Down: Americans are reverting back to the good old fashioned fossil fuel burning cars. Up goes the carbon emissions curve. – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/04/08/electric-vehicles-sales-us/ 
• 3-15-2025 Doubling Down: The famous Hawaiian climate observatory on Mauna Loa may close down on orders from the Trump regime. This could serious hamper the observations of climate change, especially global temperature rise.  – https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/climate/noaa-lease-mauna-loa.html 
• 3-15-2025 Doubling Down: The Trump henchman inserted as the director of the EPA has gone pro-growth, trashing the department’s efforts to protect the environment and mitigate climate change. An egregious example of the Chimps doubling down on their determination for BAU. The coming crash will be sooner and steeper yet. In addition to the environmental considerations, there is a serious moral implication. These roll-backs will result in the deaths of human beings, as well as causing health problems for millions of human beings. The argument can be made that this is de-facto manslaughter. – https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/climate/epa-zeldin-rollbacks-pollution.html 
• 3-13-25 doubling down: many EPA regulations are being done away with as the US races backwards in environmental protections, part of The chimps’ race towards self Extinction. Another story affirming my conviction that four degrees c warming is now baked in. The Earth will become uninhabitable much sooner than anybody had thought. – https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5327219/epa-environmental-regulations-explained 
• https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fiLc9u4dowQ 
• https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2025/03/13/behind-epa-rule-rollbacks-trump-plans-for-a-coal-comeback-00228608 
• 3-2-25 Doubling Down:  We’re dead. 4 deg is baked in. To me, we can start thinking about an even higher temps: 5 deg., 6 deg? My first reaction is this: The end of human civilization is getting baked in as the weeks and months go by. I’m glad that I’m 77. I won’t be around for the only always increasingly hellish landscape that humans face. They appear to be determined to help Earth Mother get rid of, first of all, the fossil fuel economy, and 2nd, the growth oriented predatory economic path that the patriarchal culture has been engaged in all these years. What humans get will be what they deserve, and thankfully, I won’t be around to suffer that living hell that is coming. – https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/climate/trump-us-climate-policy-changes.html 
• 2-6-25 doubling down: the Trump regime is attempting to implement a program of rolling back climate change mitigation as well as developing fossil fuel as fast as it can be done. This is precisely the formula for ending human civilization, which is probably good thing because it will eliminate humans faster than the otherwise would have been wiped out. The chimps are cooperating in their own Extinction. – https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/trump-aggressively-working-to-dismantle-u-s-efforts-to-fight-climate-change 
• https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AkkUui3R2aw 1-28-25 Doubling Down: Let’s burn fossil fuels even more rapidly! (And generate more profits for the oligarchs.) Chevron wants in on the economic gold mine of generating ever more power for the American AI (Artificial Stupidity) system. Oh, BTW, yet another argument for 4 deg C. – https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/business/energy-environment/chevron-power-plant-ai.html 
• 1-21-25 Doubling Down: Judging from this article, I would suspect that global climate change mitigation efforts are all but dead. Full speed ahead with 4 deg C, and most likely the end of human civilization. – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/01/20/trump-day-one-executive-orders-energy/ 
• 1-21-25 Doubling Down: Another story from the NYT about big banks bailing out of the climate change mitigation efforts. My argument for 4 deg C is being unambiguously affirmed.  – https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/business/trump-climate-action-banks.html 
• 1-13-25 Doubling Down: Gangway for burning more fossil fuels! The exodus from greenwashing is turning into a stampede. Even the appearance of wanting to mitigate climate change is evaporating like the water from the Great Salt Lake. This serves to reinforce my conviction that carbon emissions will only decline as the collapse of the fossil fuel economy and human civilization accelerates. 2 deg. Is already baked in, and as we roar past the tipping points, 4 deg will get baked in. At 4 degrees, human civilization will  be impossible. Per James Lovelock, just nomadic tribes of hunter-gatherers, making constant war with each other, roaming the new shores of the Arctic Ocean, competing for scarce resources.  – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/01/11/blackrock-net-zero-coalition/ 
• 1-11-25 Doubling Down:  These stories from the NYT demonstrate the determination of the Chimps to double down on their efforts to destroy the environment and hasten the collapse of the fossil-fuel culture and human civilization, all necessary steps in reducing emissions from fossil fuels. – https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/climate/trump-wind-turbines.html   https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/climate/donald-trump-climate-change-policy-power.html 

1-10-25 Doubling Down: This story from the NYT just serves to illustrate that the Chimps are unwilling, if not unable, to cut emissions. What they are willing to do is to talk a good game. –

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/interactive/2023/wildfire-yellowknife-canada-evacuation-photo/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f004
• British Columbia declares state of emergency amid ‘devastating’ wildfires – https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/19/canada-wildfires-british-columbia-kelowna-emergency/
• Two aspects of overshoot covered in this story: climate change exacerbated wildfires plus a collapsing economy – As Syria burns, and its economy collapses, firefighters appeal for support – https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/19/syria-fires-latakia-idlib-assad/
• Wildfire out of control in the Spokane area – ‘It almost sounded like a war zone’: Wildfire burns Medical Lake area, one person dead – https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/it-almost-sounded-like-a-war-zone-wildfire-burns-medical-lake-area-one-person-dead/
• Louisiana is on fire now. – Louisiana sees ‘unprecedented’ wildfires amid record heat, drought – https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/08/29/louisiana-fires-tiger-beauregard-heat/
• Fire Season in Australia Starts, Early and Ominous – https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/26/world/australia/fire-season-bad.html

• July 8, 2025: Acidic oceans: Increasingly acidic oceans, the result of the oceans absorbing and dissolving atmospheric CO2 is causing the collapse of shellfish populations and threatening the shellfish industry in the PNW. And the regime run by the Orange Crook is ending federal funding for ocean acidification research. – https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/science/oysters-farming-acidic-ocean-climate-change.html 
• April 27, 2025: Oceans:   Ice all but disappeared from this Alaskan island. It changed everything. – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/04/27/alaska-island-sea-ice-climate-change-bering/ 
• 4/26/25: oceans: a story on PBS news weekend about coral bleaching and how serious and urgent it is. – https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/coral-bleaching-is-affecting-nearly-all-the-worlds-reefs-new-noaa-report-says 
• Damage to the oceans: Scientists are worried about the approach of an ocean tipping point. – Why climate scientists are worried about this crucial ocean tipping point – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/02/09/atlantic-ocean-amoc-climate-change/
• Giant mass seaweed coming ashore – https://www.pbs.org/video/costal-threat-1679253609/
• Rising levels of plastic pollution in the oceans
• Florida ocean temperatures at ‘downright shocking’ levels – https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/10/florida-ocean-temperature-heat-records/
• The oceans are getting very hot – https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/coral-reefs-off-coast-of-florida-bleached-as-water-temperatures-top-100-degrees-fahrenheit
• Ocean temperatures are off the charts. Here’s where they’re hottest. – https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/28/ocean-temperature-maps-heat-records/
• Hot tub-like Persian Gulf fuels 158-degree heat index in Iran – https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/08/09/iran-persian-gulf-extreme-heat/
• Fishing traps and fishing nets are littering the oceans all over the planet. – https://video.kqed.org/video/ghost-gear-1695150411/
• One of the characteristics of a violent orientation is the sense of entitlement and the lack of concern for the consequences of one’s actions. In this case, PFAS pollution from around Spokane’s airports has found its way into local drinking water. Overshoot also includes the concept of a polluted planet in general – PFAS is in the groundwater west of Spokane. What’s known about the contamination is only growing. – https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/pfas-is-in-the-groundwater-west-of-spokane-whats-known-about-the-contamination-is-only-growing/

• February 1: Drought: A report in the NYT today details extreme snow drought in the American West, with predictions of extremely low water levels in the coming summer – https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/science/snow-drought-climate-change-west.html 
• 6-13-2025 economic impact of climate change: it appears that the drying up of the Rio grande due to climate change is impacting Texas agriculture and causing an argument between the United States and Mexico. Previews of coming attractions. – 
• https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-accuses-mexico-of-stealing-water-from-texas-farmers-as-climate-strains-resources 
• 12-18-24: Drought and Water Shortages:  Deforestation & El Nino weather patterns have caused a serious and unprecedented water crisis in Bogota, Columbia – https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/12/bogota-drought-water-rationing-routine/681023/ 
• 12-9-2024 Drought – 3/4 of Earth's land has become permanently drier as a result of climate change. This is threatening the productivity of agriculture and the planetary food supply. From my point of view, this means that food inflation is here to stay. Even in rich countries. https://video.kqed.org/video/december-9-2024-pbs-news-hour-full-episode-1733720401/  
• https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2024/12/press-release-three-quarters-of-earths-land-became-permanently-drier-in-last-three-decades-un/
• Drought & Water Shortages: PBS program: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/watch-tipping-point-colorado-river-reckoning-a-pbs-news-special
• This story could fit in the cultural heading also. But it's basically about the shortage of water and what chimps are doing about it. Basically the chimp response is territoriality, aggressive selfishness, and unwillingness to share. The basic point of the story is the increasing shortage of water caused by the hotter climate induced by climate change. Another characteristic of chimp behavior is their eagerness to move to areas of the country and cities that have the most serious water shortages. Las Vegas and Phoenix are a good examples. 
• Drought & Water Shortages: 6/24/24 PBS NewsHour June 24th  – the Midwest is running out of water due to overuse of water.
• Droughts: A dry Panama Canal shows how climate change will scramble globalization – https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/25/panama-canal-climate-change-drought/
• Lithium mining for batteries is sucking down the aquifers around the mines – https://video.kqed.org/video/twest-1706210631/
• Droughts: Global warming drove record Amazon rainforest drought, study finds – https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/25/global-warming-drove-record-amazon-rainforest-drought-study-finds
• A California city is about to run out of water – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/10/10/drought-california-water-levels/
• Water tables in California’s Central Valley are drying up – https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/california-wells-run-dry-as-drought-depletes-groundwater/?dicbo=v2-57a2af909c17bf4a998380522597e4da
• Southwest facing mandatory cutbacks in Colorado water use; dams are threatened – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/12/17/colorado-river-crisis-conference/
• 7 states not expected to reach a deal over Colorado River water – https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/climate/colorado-river-biden-cuts.html
• The Thames is drying up – https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/conservationists-urge-action-as-the-headwaters-of-the-river-thames-vanish
• The Mississippi River is drying up; at historically low levels – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/10/26/mississippi-river-drying-up/
• On the other hand, record drought is following by record flooding – Mississippi River crest reaches historic proportions as Iowans cope with yet another flood – https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/01/us/mississippi-river-iowa-flooding/index.html
• Changes needed to save second-largest U.S. reservoir, experts say - https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/02/18/changes-needed-save-second-largest-us-reservoir-experts-say/
• It appears that agreement on water conservation in the SW isn’t going to happen - A wet winter won’t stave off the Colorado River’s water cuts – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/03/colorado-river-negotiations-water-snowpack/
• Before Western States Suck the Colorado River Dry, We Have One Last Chance to Act – https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/opinion/colorado-river-california-arizona-cuts.html
• News update: Lake Powell water crisis is postponed by a record wet winter in the Rocky Mountains. My guess is that the rising lake levels will be an excuse by legislators to postpone or abandon current actions needed to address the long term outlook. On with BAU: Business As Usual.  Lake Powell is rising more than a foot a day. But megadrought’s effects will still be felt. – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/05/11/lake-powell-water-levels-rising-drought/
• America’s hot new destination: a luxury desert home in Rio Verde Foothills! – When One Almond Gulps 3.2 Gallons of Water – https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/13/opinion/water-shortage-west.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Sunday%20Opinion
• It appears that the big water users in the Lower Basin are beginning to face reality – States near historic deal to protect Colorado River – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/05/17/water-rights-colorado-river-near-deal/
• Good news. Apparently reality and common sense are beginning to prevail in the Lower Colorado River basin.  Colorado River states reach deal with Biden to protect drought-stricken river – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/05/22/colorado-river-water-conservation-deal-states/
• The chimps continue in their denial of reality, and plowing an economic and ecological bulldozer right through the locals, the indigenous population and the environment. The disaster continues, and perhaps, is worsening. I suspect that the day is coming when tens of thousands of homes, cities and their associated infrastructure, representing billions of dollars of investment, will suddenly spiral irrevocably into bankruptcy and abandonment. Maybe the 21st century equivalent to the Mayan ruins in Mexico. Arizona is headed for a Wile E. Coyote moment. Arizona, Low on Water, Weighs Taking It From the Sea. In Mexico. – https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/10/climate/arizona-desalination-water-climate.html
• Drought deepens in Clallam, Jefferson counties – https://www.sequimgazette.com/news/drought-deepens-in-clallam-jefferson-counties/
• Americans continue to deplete their aquifers at a rapid rate, setting things up for future disaster. As usual, Chimps are programmed to ignore long term problems and respond to short term emergencies, usually after it’s far too late to do anything useful about it, except to collect the dead bodies.  – America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow – https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/28/climate/groundwater-drying-climate-change.html
• Sequim encourages water conservation during drought – https://www.sequimgazette.com/news/sequim-encourages-water-conservation-during-drought/
• Big Farms and Flawless Fries Are Gulping Water in the Land of 10,000 Lakes – https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/03/climate/minnesota-drought-potatoes.html
• Low water levels are hampering shipping on the Mississippi River. This is directly connected to climate change. https://video.kqed.org/video/shipping-woes-1699819831/
• Who Gets the Water in California? Whoever Gets There First – https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/14/climate/california-water-crisis-drought.html
• Drought Saps the Panama Canal, Disrupting Global Trade – https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/business/economy/panama-canal-drought-shipping.html

• March 3rd 2026 flooding: a PBS NewsHour story about the country Bangladesh and it's struggle to adapt to climate change – https://www.pbs.org/video/climate-crisis-1756936492/ February 23rd: flooding The UK has experienced record flooding in the month of January leaving many farms and homes flooded for a long period of time. – https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuNiSmQgWzc&pp=0gcJCaIKAYcqIYzv 
• December 14: flooding: Flooding, driven by climate change, is threatening one of the driest places in the world. – https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/interactive/2025/oman-dubai-flooding/ 
• December 12: flooding Record flooding in western Washington state – https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/torrential-rain-triggers-floods-mudslides-and-evacuations-in-washington-state 
• August 11th flooding:, record flooding has been reported in Milwaukee Wisconsin over the weekend. – https://weather.com/news/weather/news/2025-08-10-milwaukee-flash-flooding-breaks-records-forecast 
• August 8th flooding: there are major flooding events in Gansu province in China. – https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_VadEZWyDx8 
• July 29th: flooding:  Nearly a Year's worth of rain drenched Beijing in a matter of a few days. – https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/world/heavy-rains-flooding-in-northern-china-kill-4-as-beijing-and-nearby-areas-brace-for-more 
• July 18th, 2025: flooding: climate change assistant flooding struck Punjab  in the last 2 days, causing serious flooding and property damage. – https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p6vS1pWJu64 
• July 5th, 2025: Flooding The adventure continues. The flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas in definitely not over yet. This appears to be record flooding and has now claimed at least 27 more lives. The rampaging river, fueled by climate change enhanced downpours, is drowning Chimps. – https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07/05/us/texas-floods 
• Flooding: PBS video about the record flooding – https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/july-5-2025-pbs-news-weekend-full-episode 
• July 4th, 2025 severe flooding on the Guadalupe River in Texas. It appears to be record flooding. 10 inches of rain in one day. – 
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/04/texas-flooding-disaster-declarations 
• June 16th 2025 flooding: there was severe flooding in West Virginia today with more flooding expected overnight, - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X6-AIKfepZs&pp=0gcJCf0Ao7VqN5tD 
• June 12th 2025 flooding:  flooding in San Antonio and flooding in South Africa. – https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/12/weather/san-antonio-flooding-texas-climate. 
• https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-flooding-eastern-cape-cb2533d81b14cb214b9eb996873b94b6 
• May 30, 2025: flooding: record flooding exacerbated by climate change has flooded the town of Mokwa in Nigeria – https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/at-least-111-people-dead-after-floods-in-mokwa-a-market-town-in-central-nigeria 
• 4-8-25 Flooding:  Record flooding just recently occurred in the DR of Congo. Same story as in the American South. – https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/6/heavy-floods-in-dr-congos-kinshasa-leave-dozens-dead-destroy-homes 
• 4-8-25: Flooding: Just as predicted, record flooding has once again arrived in the upper South, leaving areas of Tennessee and Kentucky under water with record flooding, with even more severe storms yet to come. All those people washed out of their homes will have plenty of time to think about what caused this personal disaster. – https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/04/08/tennessee-south-rains-floods-preparation/ 
• Flooding: record flooding in Malaysia. PBS NewsHour November 29th 24. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/world/malaysia-prepares-for-its-worst-floods-in-decade-with-already-3-dead-and-90000-displaced
• Hurricanes: Hurricane Helene devastated a lot of forest in the Appalachian backwoods of North Carolina. Considering the timeline of climate change and the increasing prospect of similar hurricanes striking this region, this damage can be considered permanent.  – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/hurricane-helene-forest-damage-north-carolina/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f010 
• Extreme flooding in Spain - https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/world/devastating-flash-floods-in-eastern-spain-leave-at-least-72-people-dead
• Heavy impact of tropical storm Oscar on Cuba causing flooding and massive power failures- https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/21/24275647/cuba-power-outage-tropical-storm-oscar
• Record flooding in New Mexico – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/10/20/roswell-nm-deadly-flash-floods/
• Catastrophic flooding in Sri Lanka – https://apnews.com/article/sri-lanka-colombo-floods-weather-b9ea36f1ae2371fbd0403a64bf1a363a
• Catastrophic flooding in Central Europe - https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/news-wrap-at-least-16-dead-amid-catastrophic-flooding-in-central-europe
• Flooding: Historic Levels of Rainfall in California Storms – https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/02/photos-los-angeles-california-storm-flooding/677359/
• Flooding: Historic rains pour over Southern California; half a million without power – https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/02/05/california-storm-atmospheric-river-rain-flooding-impacts/
• Apocalyptic flooding in Pakistan – https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2022/08/photos-monsoon-flooding-in-pakistan/671278/
• Flooding in Pakistan – https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/30/pakistan-flooding-underwater-monsoon/
• Record flooding after record drought in Texas – https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/22/dallas-texas-flash-floods/
• Severe flooding continues in California – https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/news-wrap-at-least-17-dead-as-pacific-storms-batter-california
• Seas have drastically risen along southern U.S. coast in past decade – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/10/sea-level-rise-southern-us/
• Fort Lauderdale Is Drenched With Up to Two Feet of Rain, Shutting Its Airport – https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/us/fort-lauderdale-flood-airport.html
• Fort Lauderdale was inundated with a third of its annual rainfall within hours – https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/04/12/fort-lauderdale-flooding-florida-weather/
• Record flooding in Italy – https://www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/italy-floods
• Extreme Weather Brings Deadly Flooding to Northern Italy – https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2023/05/extreme-weather-flooding-northern-italy/674131/
• Northeast storms dump over 2 months’ worth of rain on Vermont: – https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/11/vermont-flooding-new-york-northeast-rain/
• 13 found dead in flooded tunnel as South Korean storm toll rises to 40 – https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/17/south-korea-floods-tunnel-deaths/
• Extreme flooding in Norway – https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/august-9-2023-pbs-newshour-full-episode
• Extreme flooding in the desert country of Libya. I could put this story under the flooding heading or under the “Great Dieoff” heading. Deadly disasters seeming to be multiplying by the month. Thousands missing and feared dead after floods submerge eastern Libya – https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/12/libya-storm-daniel-derna-flooding/
• Flash flooding in Massachusetts – Massachusetts Cities Declare Emergency After ‘Catastrophic’ Flash Flooding – https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/us/leominster-massachusetts-flash-flooding.html
• Now a lot of NYC residents get to ponder climate change – ‘Life-Threatening Rainfall Event’ in New York as City Combats Flooding – https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/09/29/nyregion/nyc-rain-flash-flooding
• Climate change is bringing record flooding to Africa – https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/worst-floods-decades-kill-29-somalia-hit-towns-across-east-africa-2023-11-08/#:~:text=MOGADISHU%2C%20Nov%208%20(Reuters),inundated%20towns%20across%20East%20Africa.
• Climate change is bringing record flooding to France  – https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/world/storm-ciarans-record-breaking-winds-whip-across-western-europe-leaving-millions-without-power
• It appears that climate change is threatening the ground stability underneath Washington, D.C. itself. To add to the circus, it looks like the local and Federal Chimps are unable to respond to a common threat in a unified manner. Duh… – The nation’s capital, built on water, struggles to keep from drowning – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/dc-low-lying-city-flood-risks/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f001
• Flooding in Britain closed the cross channel tunnel today. Record flooding was also reported in Ladysmith South Africa. – https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/december-30-2023-pbs-news-weekend-full-episode
• Heavy flooding in Kenya – https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw1eiNe5B5Q
• Record flooding in Tanzania, among other African countries in the area. – https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v6b9k_lwXFQ
• Climate change driven Flooding is beginning to threaten the existence of Bangkok – https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/southeast-asian-cities-face-existential-crisis-as-they-sink-while-sea-levels-rise
• Record flooding in Europe caused by an unusually warm winter. https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2023-12-29/Hungary-declares-state-of-emergency-as-Danube-river-rises-1pUCH0UvBe0/p.html
• San Diego inundated as rains bring city’s wettest January day on record – https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/01/22/san-diego-flooding-rain-record-totals/

• Extreme Texas heat wave to swell across southern, central U.S. – https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/06/27/extreme-heat-texas-heatwave/
• Why a sudden surge of broken heat records is scaring scientists – https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/06/earth-record-heat-climate-extremes/
• More severe weather in the south –https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E_COCZ0-aPE
• Extreme heat wave bound for Phoenix and Southwest could be worst ever – https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/07/southwest-arizona-california-extreme-heat-wave/
• European heat wave sparks multiple warnings, shuts Greece’s Acropolis –https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/15/europe-heatwave-cerberus-acropolis-warnings/
• Severe weather and flooding continues across upper Pennsylvania and New England – https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/massive-search-underway-for-missing-children-swept-away-in-philadelphia-flash-flood
• A NewsHour story about extreme weather across the country – https://www.pbs.org/video/extreme-weather-1689024688/
• The heat index reached 152 degrees in the Middle East — nearly at the limit for human survival – https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/18/extreme-heat-record-limits-human-survival/
• Southern Europe, Italy brace for record temperatures as heat wave peaks – https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/17/europe-heatwave-italy-spain-record-climate/
• This is just the beginning. What’s it going to be like at 3 deg. C. warming? Inside the most extreme heat wave the Southern U.S. has faced – https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/21/us-heat-wave-heat-dome-climate/
• Surviving the extreme heat in Phoenix – https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/heat-diaries-what-its-like-living-through-phoenixs-historic-heat-wave
• It’s midwinter, but it’s over 100 degrees in South America – https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/08/02/southamerica-record-winter-heat-argentina-chile/
• Record heat roasting Texas and the South set to swell back to Phoenix – https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/08/03/heat-wave-texas-southwest-phoenix/
• 2023 is on track to be the hottest year on record – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/08/2023-is-track-be-hottest-year-record/
• ‘Ridiculous’ heat keeps tormenting Texas, with no end in sight – https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/08/09/texas-heat-record-summer-forecast/
• Florida is roasting in extreme heat and on pace for a record-warm year – https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/08/11/florida-record-heat-climate-summer/
• Portland hits August record of 108 amid extreme Pacific Northwest heat wave – https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/08/14/pacific-northwest-heatwave-oregon-washington/
• More reports on extreme weather all around the globe – PBS Newshour – https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/punishing-heat-waves-break-records-and-disrupt-life-across-much-of-the-world
• How long before the Great Northward Migration (inside the US)  begins? – The South Knows a Hot, Sticky Summer. But This? ‘It’s Hell.’ – https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/us/southern-extreme-heat-summer.html
• Rapidly intensifying hurricanes: a consequence of climate change – Idalia’s dreaded rapid intensification is becoming the norm for gulf storms – https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/08/29/idalia-rapid-intensification-hurricanes-climate/
• The extreme weather reporting continues – https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/news-wrap-at-least-18-dead-from-severe-storms-and-flooding-in-southeastern-europe 
• Extreme weather is leading the news again – https://video.kqed.org/video/climate-scientist-on-extreme-weather-and-long-term-trends-1694039372/
• Climate change enhanced extreme weather is striking the Northeast part of the United States – https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/major-storms-pummel-the-northeast-causing-flooding-and-downing-power-lines
• Prepare for a ‘Gray Swan’ Climate – https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/01/climate-change-acceleration-nonlinear-gray-swan/677201/

• The ‘Forever’ Glaciers of America’s West Aren’t Forever Anymore – https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/climate/mount-rainier-glaciers-climate-change.html
• Climate Change Is Driving a Sharp Drop in Snow Levels, Study Finds – https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/climate/climate-change-snowpack-decline.html
• The Threshold at Which Snow Starts Irreversibly Disappearing – https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/01/winter-snow-loss-climate-change/677078/
• It appears that polar glacial ice melt is proceeding more rapidly than the scientific investigators had estimated. This implies that the climate change problem is more urgent than the warnings from the habitually conservative scientific community would have us believe.  – Greenland’s glaciers are losing more ice than scientists estimated – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/01/17/greenland-ice-sheet-sea-level-rise/
• Siberia’s ice is melting, revealing its past and endangering its future – https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2024/siberia-melting-permafrost-climate-photos/?itid=mr_world_1

• 3-4-25 Loss of Biodiversity: This is a good story about the loss of phytoplankton, the base of the ocean’s food chain. I already heard about this situation in detail in E.O. Wilson’s book, “Half-Earth”. This loss of phytoplankton has the potential to threaten the entire oceanic food chain, which in turn, will imperil the source of the Chimps’ food derived from the oceans, which is substantial. Down goes the food curve. – https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/climate/plankton-ocean-warming.html 
• Alaskan crab fisheries are in steep decline – https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/08/21/alaska-crab-climate/
• Alaskan King Crab harvests are canceled this year: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/conservation-concerns-cancel-alaskas-bering-snow-king-crab-seasons/
• Snow crab season canceled – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/10/15/alaska-snow-crab-season-climate-change/
• The extinction of humans in the Horn of Africa is underway – https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/28/somalia-famine-climate-change/
• Chaos in the West Coast snow crab and king crab fishery – https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/bering-sea-crab-collapse-spurs-push-for-stronger-conservation-measures/
• Starving sea birds on the Alaska coast – https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/starving-seabirds-on-alaska-coast-show-climate-change-peril/
• Essential insects in East Asia have declined massively – https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/03/insects-china-decline-east-asia/
• Hundreds of WA plants, animals at risk of extinction (Seattle Times) – https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/hundreds-of-wa-plants-animals-at-risk-of-extinction/
• Scientists Investigate a Bird Flu Outbreak in Seals – https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/15/health/avian-influenza-seals.html
• California, Oregon face salmon fishing ban amid low stocks – https://www.seattletimes.com/business/california-oregon-face-salmon-fishing-ban-amid-low-stocks/
• Climate change is connected to increased pollen levels and increased allergies – https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/its-not-your-imagination-allergy-season-is-extra-bad-this-year-heres-why
• Another example of increasing extinctions due to climate change  – https://video.thinktv.org/video/in-a-pinch-1687988999/
• Climate change is now threatening Emperor Penguins in Antarctica – Thousands of penguin chicks killed by early sea ice breakup, study says – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/25/emperor-penguin-chicks-population-death-antarctic/
• The Pac NW snow crab season has been canceled again for the 2nd straight year. The cause: Marine heat waves caused by climate change – Second snow crab season canceled as researchers pinpoint cause – https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/second-snow-crab-season-canceled-as-researchers-pinpoint-cause/
• Bird populations are declining. – https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/bird-population-decline-united-states-maps/?itid=hp_Climate%20box_p018_f001
• Climate change is taking out Louisiana's crawfish harvest – https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/extreme-drought-in-louisiana-threatens-to-create-a-crawfish-shortage