DOUCHEBAG OF THE WEEK: THE WEATHER

Anybody on the upper East Coast this week would completely agree that the one true problem this week was the devastating heat. Responsible for numerous deaths (more people die from heat than cold), brownouts and a sincere desire to avoid public transportation, the heat wave shows no real end in sight. While the coming week will be blessedly less humid, it's going to be Africa hot until, say, November. Record temperatures were up and down the coast with New York, Philadelphia, Hartford, Providence, Boston and DC hitting well into the 100's. Central Park saw their all time high temperature this past week with records that go back into the 1880's. Subways stations recorded temps upward of 124 degrees. The smell must have been something. Imagine that packed train at rush hour, BO and that lovely urine smell mixing into a potpourri of awfulness. MMMMMMM good. Fourth of July was uncommonly hot but at least it didn't rain.
The weather will become more and more like this as climate change takes hold. One meteorologist predicts that by 2030 every summer will be like this with a temperature 3.2 degrees F warmer (2 degrees C). This would be very very bad. Assuming we even get to that point, which as of now looks increasingly unlikely, human life will have to change dramatically and chances are good that at least some of our population will be wiped out. Scarce resources will lead to a bottleneck of human survival, which has happened at least once in our past. We know this because the biodiversity between all humans is less than one percent. The only way that could have accured is if human kind was nearly wiped out at one point in our distant past. Extinctions are nothing new, they happen all the time. We are in the midst of the Sixth Great Extinctions. Pray that human kind is not on that list. Chances are good that some of us will survive, but they probably be those wealthy enough to afford the dramatic changes necessary. The rest of us are dog food.
Our Congress continues to fiddle as Rome burns. Food is now being stolen from home gardens across the country, a dire sign. With Republicans surging somehow in some races like California, we can expect a sudden demise. How Carly Fiorini is ahead of Barbara Boxer is beyond me, but never put anything past the Libertardians who are determined to kill us all. Their candidates are super right wing nutbags. Their support of Sarah Palin should have been a clue. Be afraid of this movement of the moment. The good news it won't be around long, perhaps as short as one more election cycle, due to their inability to have an coherent position. But the damage they could do in that time may be staggering.