Another reinforcing prompt on the quickly-coming-if-not-already-here future — from the Washington Post  this afternoon:

Manmade climate change played a substantial role in the exceptional warmth in the eastern U.S. during the spring of 2012, a major NOAA-led report concludes.
Not only that, it greatly increased the odds of the punishing heat that baked the north central and northeast U.S. during the summer that followed.

How many of these studies will it take — or just more heat?

The Post also noted as to the growing near-superfluous record: The NOAA report adds weight to a large body of scientific studies that show manmade climate change is very likely affecting the intensity of warm weather now and will in the future.
Yet still a gentle posture of ‘very likely,’ instead of ‘shit-yeah it’s comin’ down,’ or words to that effect.

And from the same NOAA report — this time via HuffPost:

Researchers looked at how climate change affected the amount of flooding that occurred due to Hurricane Sandy.
They found that sea-level rise caused by climate change has nearly doubled the probability of flooding like that storm caused in many areas of the East Coast, when compared to the chance of such an event in 1950.

Grasping the signficance of climate change is beyond the imagination — might be too late the hero.

(Illustration above found here).