Save Our Planet!
It has been a year of unmitigated disasters: Fires raged across Canada and ravaged Maui. The average high temperature in Phoenix for the month of July was 114.7 degrees. And as I write, Hurricane Idalia is devastating Florida and surging into the Southeastern states.
In 2022 there were 18 weather/climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each in the United States, according to the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). By the end of July of this year there had already been 15 such events! In 1980 there were only three. There is no question that extreme weather catastrophes are hitting America and the world more frequently than ever before: hurricanes, typhoons, droughts, wildfires, flooding… And there is no question that the severity of these weather events and their frequency is impacted by man-made climate change.
