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Whenever there is a massive outbreak of tornadoes in areas where they were previously rare, or a huge rain-heavy storm brings catastrophic flooding to cities along the coast, or record temperatures make formerly cool areas intolerable, Republicans always have the same answer—that’s not the climate crisis. That’s just weather.
It’s always possible to find someone willing to step in front of network cameras and proclaim that “you can’t pin any individual event on climate change.” That’s also true of massive wildfires that destroy homes, devastate towns, and leave thousands of square miles reduced to ashes.
Right now, the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic are experiencing a sky that looks as if it was borrowed from some dystopian future. That’s because it is. This is the dystopian future, where people keep saying, “It’s just the weather.” What’s filling the skies is hubris as much as woodsmoke, the visible expression of our passivity in response to an existential crisis.
