There was a time when one could legitimately argue the veracity of “climate change.” Now, however, with so many weather-related anomalies, aberrations, it seems that train has left the station. The evidence of its reality has become impossible to ignore.Lake Meade is drying up, leaving big urban centers in the American Southwest to wonder how they can survive without water. The Rio Grande water level is perilously low, leaving large areas of the Big Bend river-bed dry. Huge fires have destroyed a million or more acres of old-growth trees in California. Both poles are melting, and on and on it ...