Forget Climate, are we Prepared for the Weather?

The debate rages on over climate change and what needs to be done to address it, if anything.  Regardless of your position on that matter, there’s no escaping the certitude of the weather.  The weather!  With all the baked lawns, charred forest, buckling pavement, derechos, unusual tornado patterns, etc., maybe we should consider that we

Joplin’s Past, America’s Future

I make a lot of nature posts.  But as I said, nature isn’t always flowers and clear skies… May 22, 2011.  We were enjoying an event at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis.  The weather was hot, humid, windy, ominous.   As we headed out for dinner before attending a movie, texts and phone calls