Month 8, Day 13: L.A. Heat Edition.

There’s a heat wave expected in LA this weekend, says the LA Times.

Not a standard boilerplate LTE.

A midsummer heat wave is not particularly remarkable. They happen all the time. But there are more and more of them happening these days, in the U.S. and around the world. As a consequence of climate change, we’re getting very extreme weather, and we’re getting it more often. While it’s impossible to say that global warming caused a specific weather event, climatologists have predicted for two decades that it will bring about ever more frequent extremes of temperature and precipitation. In the past, climate change was something that would happen in the future. But the past is gone and the future is now. Climate change is happening to us. News media must begin including this information as part of their print and online articles on weather conditions. People need to understand what’s going on so they can make informed decisions; ignorance is no longer an option.

Warren Senders

Oh, and for what it’s worth, I only became aware that there was a TV show by that name a few seconds before hitting “publish.”