Rain again this near-noon Friday here in California’s Central Valley — a wet story of horror:

(Illustration by Australian political cartoonist Fiona Katauskas, and found this morning at the Guardian.)

In this terrible, dangerous, and surreal age of the T-Rump, there’s so much shit flooding the zone that a lot of serious particulars are swallowed up whole by the sheer weight of the onslaught. And one of those is climate change, most likely humanity’s greatest threat, maybe like in forever.

In September, T-Rump in an idiotic blubber at the UN:

“This ‘climate change,’ it’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion … All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong. They were made by stupid people that have cost their countries fortunes and given those same countries no chance for success. If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail.”

So in keeping with such shit, the US didn’t send any reps to the UN climate conference (COP30) now being held in Belém, Brazil. Seemingly following suit, none of the “big four” US broadcasters — CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox — will be on site either.
A good sampler of the T-Rump’s bullshit as our only environment gets hotter/worse, can be found at NPR last Wednesday — noted: ‘“Each fraction of a degree matters for communities facing floods, drought, and heat extremes,” says Ko Barrett, deputy secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization.‘

Last month, a report on the same-old-same with climate change — via LiveScience:

The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) entering Earth’s atmosphere increased by a record amount in 2024, locking in further global warming, according to a new report.

CO2 levels increased by 3.5 parts per million (ppm) from 2023 to 2024, marking the largest one-year increase since modern records began in 1957. Researchers attributed the record rise to humanity’s continued use of fossil fuels, a surge in wildfires, and less absorption from Earth’s carbon sinks (such as oceans and forests) that naturally take CO2 out of the atmosphere.

Scientists have warned for decades that humanity needs to reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere to keep climate change under control. The findings of the new report, published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), illustrates that the opposite is happening, with CO2 levels spiking like never before. The WMO recommended reducing CO2 emissions and improving monitoring.

Despite some optimism from COP30, shit won’t clean itself:

The remaining carbon budget for 1.5C will be gone by 2030 without dramatic emissions cuts. Global Carbon Report 2025 preprint released for #COP30. www.ucdavis.edu/climate/blog…

— Kat Kerlin (@katkerlin.bsky.social) 2025-11-14T19:00:26.591Z

Frogs are unknowingly in a too-relaxed mode.
Except in a non-CGI reality:

Climate disaster a-comin’, or not, yet here we are once again …

(Illustration out front from the UN’s International Children’s Painting Competition, and found here.)