While Rome Burns

While Rome Burns #3 112 degrees yesterday 6-27-21 in Portland breaking the record set the day before at 108 degrees.  The following day it would reach 114 degrees.  When I read of the unusual weather in other places I feel some empathy but I know I am not feeling the impact of the monsoon rains, the tornado, the stifling heat there.  When it hits home whether the scorching heat or the tree devastating ice storm last winter it has an immediacy.  I begin to think about the political entities and geographic divisions we humans have created.  They have served but now they seem so inadequate for the challenges of the climate, in fact counter productive.  There is not any quick fix or vaccine for an intervention to make things right. Now here in Portland, the “heat dome”  A heat dome is caused by a strong ridge of high pressure that traps warm air underneath it.  This weather today makes the obvious case for “climate change”.  This is not a politic...