Enjoy your time off Richard. Your essays are very educational. There are the measurable indicators of warming, such as shrinking Arctic ice. But the human part, the understanding part from our power brokers and common man lags. But, awareness is catching up to indicators revealed by science.

For example, one of the largest insurance companies in America has announced it will no longer write new policies for home insurance in California. The climate disasters (e.g. wildfires) are too destructive. And in Phoenix. AZ, the authorities there are no longer approving new construction because of ground water depletion. The screws are turning. And when bomb time goes boom, what will happen then with our perception of climate crisis? Panic perhaps?