(Note: this blog is a sequel to a blog post from 2017...)

It is HOT outside. It feels like we're trapped beneath Satan's ball-sack. At the same time, there are plenty of other areas of the country that would LOVE to be in the low 80s first thing in the morning. The entire west coast is baking in record temperatures. Farther afield in Pakistan, there are areas that have "tempuratures beyond what the human body can handle" (spoiler alert: that's about 122F / 50C).

It's not that this could have been predicted or prevented, right? Oh wait - it was. Back then we called it "global warming" (the cause), which was later replaced with "climate change" (the effect) because the former description was "anti-business" (seriously - it's likely a factor why we ended up with Dubya instead of Al Gore).

As we stand at the edge of the precipice, looking down on a potential death spiral of melting polar ice, rising seas, and permanent destruction of our client, cooler heads are necessary (isn't it ironic - dontcha think?). Instead, we had four years of rolling back environmental protections, opening pristine wildlife to drilling, and the dumbing down of the Republican party (which - arguably - has been going on for more than 4 years, but the last 4 have been particularly agregious).

Now for the frosting on the melting ice cream cake, that bastion of journalistic malfeasance FOX "News" is starting its own weather channel:

As if America wasn't already in trouble because a cable channel is allowed to call itself "news", when it is clearly propaganda, now this. We're in big trouble.