We took the dog for a walk at the river this morning. The riverside forest is bursting with growth, due in part to some unusually heavy rains for this time of year.
There are mulberries ready to eat, I'm sure I'll find plenty of blooming yerba mansa, and maybe some wolfberries, next time I walk further south along the river.
It seems that a similar pattern of storms have appeared all across the country. We have experienced only brief and localized flooding, along with one death in a flood control arroyo.
I don't think the current weather pattern indicates any respite from climate change. It seems more likely that we are just seeing examples of increasing frequency of weather extremes.
Trump is methodically dismantling any efforts to control the production of greenhouse gases and even destroying the key resources for monitoring weather and climate. There is some pushback even among Republicans to defunding sustainable energy projects, but it seems quite possible that adverse climate change could be irreversible by the time we have put Trump behind us.
