Pirate's Cove

Climate doom is here, guys!

Climate horrors in Colorado are no longer just a threat. They’ve arrived.
We’re moving from a period of climate warnings to one of consequences

Wait, I don’t have global heating on here?

For a long time the premise of climate news was that humans are causing the planet to warm, and without emergency action, environmental disaster would result.

That’s changing. Increasingly the premise is that humans failed to take the climate crisis seriously and environmental disaster is here. It’s wrecking the land. It’s eliminating habitats. It’s hurting people. It’s killing people.

And it will only get worse.

The basis for this shift is all too evident in Colorado, where warming and aridification is fundamentally altering the nature of the state. Water is scarce. Fires burn with new intensity. Mountain snows are retreating. Burn scars don’t recover like they used to.

Decades of warnings about what climate change would bring largely went unheeded. We’ve crossed into a new epoch, in which predictions are giving way to facts on the ground. Scientific studies chart the transition, including two that became available in recent weeks.

So why didn’t the People’s Republic Of Colorado ban all fossil fueled vehicles? Shut down the airport? Do away with natural gas for energy? End farming for animals? And so much more?

This whole “climate doom is here!!!!!” has become a regular cult talking point of late, such as

• ‘Climate change is here. It’s real’- MTA prepares for ‘torrential rainfall’ in NYC
• Climate change is here and no government has your back
• Climate change? It’s already here
• Midwest, Northeast heat wave offers blunt climate warning: Go outside, this is the new normal

We’re still waiting on the Arctic to be ice free and Manhattan under water, though.