Hmmm, it seems I ran everyone off.

A year ago in August, so much rain fell around Grand Island that a man kayaked through part of the Nebraska State Fair.

Fast forward a year, and now Grand Island, along with more than half of Nebraska, is in drought. Aggressive range fires have returned after a hiatus from wet years. And across the state, ranchers and farmers have been assessing how to respond to deteriorating conditions.

August 2020 was Nebraska’s driest August in 126 years of record-keeping, according to figures released last week by the National Centers for Environmental Information. The year is trending in the top 15% for driest in Nebraska.

A year earlier, the month was the wettest August on record in Nebraska, with 2019 eventually being ranked the state’s third wettest on record.

Call it weather whiplash, call it living in the Great Plains, but call it something else, too.

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That would be climate change, that thing conservatives deny existing because doing something about it cuts into profit and grasping more wealth.

Weather whiplash hits Nebraska as state goes from record wet to record dry (more at the Omaha World-Herald)

This is a problem that capitalism can’t solve, because capitalists make too much money on it. Capitalists aren’t social welfare or environmental organisations. That’s why they have to downplay climate weirding to conservative voters and distract with God, guns, gays, and abortion, because “We’re destroying human life for power and money” really isn’t a good platform for a politician to run on.

The only surprising thing about it is how cheaply you can buy a Republican politician.