Global Warming You Can See

O No! Say it isn't so! [another one from Axios.com

Boiling 2018 down to one story

This graphic by Harry Stevens led the Axios Deep Dive marking 30 years since Senate testimony by then-NASA scientist James Hansen alerted the country to the arrival of global warming. Data: NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. "The Story of 2018 Was Climate Change," N.Y. Times opinion columnist David Leonhardt insists: "[N]othing else measures up to the rising toll and enormous dangers of climate change. I worry that our children and grandchildren will one day ask us, bitterly, why we spent so much time distracted by lesser matters." Public opinion "is changing, and the weather seems to be a factor. The growing number of extreme events — wildfires, storms, floods ... — are hard to ignore."