Raoul_Luke
I feel a bit lightheaded. Maybe you should drive.
Yeah, just like the "reasonable assumption" that Hillary was going to win.It's a reasonable assumption based on the available evidence. Our socioeconomic system and settlement patterns are optimized for a particular climate pattern. The faster the climate changes, the more stranded infrastructure, sub-optimal economic configurations, and out-of-position population clusters we're likely to see. Duh.
As for a local drought, that's obviously a vastly different matter than global warming. It's hilarious that right-wingers keep making that same basic category error.
The idea that climate and weather are two completely disparate concepts is a canard. Weather is climate and climate is weather. They are, in fact, one and the same.