I’ll provide just some general events, then you can go to the NASA website for the detailed statistics that support Martin’s article.
The catastrophic fires in California that completely burned down the town of Paradise, CA. It was hardly the only such fire in California. There also were devastating forest fires in Australia that killed or displaced 3 billion animals.
The extreme hurricanes and tornados originating from the Gulf. Haiti and Puerto Rico were devastated and a huge tornado, unprecedented in width wiped out an entire town in Kentucky. The pictures of the devastation looked similar to those that came from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just flattened out all the buildings. New Orleans now has to brace for a continuing series of even more extreme hurricanes and flooding that see no end in sight and promise even worse destruction.
The unprecedented heat dome in the Northwest. Hundreds of people died in British Columbia and the drought in the SW is causing the Colorado River and the reservoirs it feeds like Lake Powell to dry up. In Africa, Lake Chad and Lake Victoria are drying up.
The rising sea levels are swallowing up the homes of those in Indonesia who will soon be forced to migrate. In Florida, there is also the quiet realization that the highway leading from Miami to Key West will soon be flooded over and that the cost to prevent it will be too high.
And the global warming is causing habitat loss and the extinction of many species. Some have speculated that this change in habitat is bringing wild animals into closer contact with human populations and may have resulted in the pandemic and future pandemics.
We are facing a huge world of hurt, but people who are not directly affected just deny it and pretend it isn’t happening.
