2021's floods and heat waves are signs of what's to come

The idea that climate change should increase the variability of weather, the intensity of extreme events, and so on, seems intuitive to me in broad strokes. Smart people say that adding energy to a system increases its volatility, sure, ok, why would I doubt that.

But I would think that it would be an imperceptible statistical effect, given the relative amounts of energy (not the absolute amount, which is of course huge).

Is it possibly much larger than I think? Sure, absolutely. "Trust the science." But I can't trust anything based on intuition about particular events and unbiased memories of decades past.

The focus on individual events that feel wrong is unsettling to me. It used to be that people would say "climate change is real, the science is settled, deniers are tools of the fossil fuel industry" and other people would say "no, it's a religion and a scam designed to seize political power". Can't it be both a floor wax and dessert topping? What religion isn't based on deep truths, full of smart people, and often hijacked by power hungry monsters?

Currently in the mountain areas of Japan, Honshu for work, by now there would be meters of snow at lower altitudes, today it's so warm I was wearing a singlet around.

It's nice, but it also feels kind of freaky / wrong. I also saw a cherry blossom tree with buds on it on December 15. Was also very unusual.

I don't know where we're going but it doesn't feel like a good place, I wish was more was being done to address the issue because why end up in a hellscape when we don't have too?

I live near the US / Canada border. For 30 years, lakes have been completely or partially frozen by this time of year, but we had a big thunderstorm and downpour last week. It's wild.

I wish I could say the silence of nobody caring was deafening, but it's being drown out by the sound of our leaders marching us toward destruction.