The dog days of summer are around the corner. Major League Baseball is already upon us. Children are running through sprinklers. Fireflies accompany the warm summer nights. Many families are planning their summer vacations. The rest of us are daydreaming about planning our summer vacations. Life goes on.



There's a certain reliable and comforting mundane feel to the way seasons predictably play out over and over again. This year doesn't seem much different than the previous. It's easy to forget that we're losing the war on climate change because, for the most part, the gradual warming is hard to perceive. It's hard to physically experience the fact that there were more warm days this year than the year prior. Warm is warm. Some days you sweat. Some years you experience a late snow storm the spring. Your body catalogs the experiences but does a poor job analyzing them in any meaningful way. It records the numbers but doesn't do the math for you. But I can.



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