Another part of an american town burned down, this month in Spokane, Washington,
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/08/urban-firestorm-devastates-spokane-as-dense-smoke-envelops-the-northwest/
Just now parts of Reno Nevada are actively burning.
https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2026/08/23/hawk-fire-updates-sunday-10500-acres-burned-evacuations-remain/91431114007/
Fires continue to burn out of control in British Columbia, sending continent spanning smoke drifting across north america.
Over in Europe record breaking fires burn out of control across Spain and France.
July was hottest month ever recorded in US as heatwaves scorched country surpassing even the dust bowl.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/july-hottest-month-ever-recorded-heatwaves
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/08/the-u-s-just-had-its-hottest-month-in-recorded-history-surpassing-dust-bowl-record/
In Asia flooding forced the evacuation of one million people. (I'm not even sure the USA is capable of an evacuation like that)
Typhoon Dolphin: more than a million people evacuated in China as record rainfall dumped on Shangha
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/10/typhoon-dolphin-china-shanghai-flooding-evacuations
Europe’s scorching summer is erasing its economic growth, says report
https://www.politico.eu/article/europes-scorching-summer-could-erase-blocs-2026-growth/
FEMA needs to be funded, staffed, and aid be provided without Trumps approval since that will always be used for extortion. Catastrophic disasters are only going to become more common.
People need to stop complaining about the "economic costs of stopping global warming" because if global warming isn't stopped there wont be an economy beyond the survivors digging through the burned out or flooded rubble of our former cities.
Also I want to ban AI data centers for many reasons, including they are largely a scam to increase demand for the fossil fuels that are killing us all.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/11/ai-will-do-more-to-boost-fossil-fuel-production-than-green-energy
I strongly oppose Trump's corrupted EPA allowing data centers to say clean air rules don't apply because of some stupid excuse. The regulations should apply, and even better would be completely banning building more fossil fuel power plants.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5992657-epa-data-center-power-plants-acid-rain/
Scientists have been warning of catastrophe for decades and the oil industries response has been to install Trump and fire all the scientists.
We need polluter pays legislation and we need to stop burning fossil fuels.
Also about the only way to defeat Iran now is to reduce the worlds oil consumption by 20% so no one cares that they can block the strait at will.
I am so hopeless that our useless government will be able to do anything to save us.