Climate Changes in Context

 The climate is changing, This is nothing new. In fact it has always been changing throughout the history of planet Earth. But it is best understood in the larger context. The recent hot temperatures in western Canada and the western USA have resulted in hundreds of deaths and broken records set during the climate crisis of the 1930s. From the late 1920s to the late 1930s, a combination of high temperatures, drought, and high winds turned some areas of "the great plains" into "the great dustbowl", where fields, roads, fences. and even buildings were buried under topsoil carried from afar.    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl A buried farm in 1936 in Kansas My mother's parents moved 3 times during the 1920s and 1930s trying to find a place where they could still farm successfully. At this time most farmers were using horses, so atmospheric C02 levels were probably very low. But the climate crisis was very real. My parents and grandparents lived in fear of...