So far this year, more than 2.1 million acres have burned in
wildfires, more than 113 million people in the U.S. were in
areas under extreme heat advisories last Friday, two-thirds of
the country is experiencing drought, and earlier in June,
deluges flooded Minnesota and Florida. "This is what global
warming looks like at the regional or personal level," said
Jonathan Overpeck, professor of geosciences and atmospheric
sciences at the University of Arizona. "The extra heat increases
the odds of worse heat waves, droughts, storms and wildfire.
This is certainly what I and many other climate scientists have
been warning about." Kevin Trenberth, head of climate analysis
at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in fire-charred
Colorado, said these are the very record-breaking conditions he
has said would happen, but many people wouldn't listen. So it's
I told-you-so time, he said. As recently as March, a special
report an extreme events and disasters by the Nobel Prize-
winning Intergovernmental Panel on Cli