I would add that every weather event that now occurs on the planet occurs in a political atmosphere where it is dangerous to the career of any scientist or teevee news reporter or republican politician to state clearly and without prevarication that climate change is real, that man is behind it, and that it is a huge threat. Three years ago many republicans could be and were sane about this threat. Three years ago, the Weather Channel routinely ran segments on climate change, putting weather into context.

Three years of all out assault on climate science by right wing media has made an honest discussion of this problem in the public sphere impossible.