Aged Like Milk
In the early 2000s, my boss, who fancied himself as smarter than actual experts on almost everything, started talking about climate change one day. It wasn't real, he said, and to "prove" it, he talked about some fractional number of locations who no longer had accurate temperature readings because there was asphalt around the station when there hadn't been decades ago.Seriously, that was the argument.
I gently pointed out that climate scientists would certainly know about this and factor it into their projections, and he just waved me away.
Today, as my former home (Austin) suffers through historic heat levels in June, and my current home (Grand Rapids) has some of the worst air in the world today with wildfire smoke coming from Canada, I'm reminded of how embarrassing that take was, and how many politicians not only shared it then, but still share it now.
However, it did make my book incredibly topical. The Man You Trust.
Seriously, this better not be an annual occurrence in Michigan, because then there will only be three season: blizzard, swamp, and smoke.
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