Climate change demands attention, but many look away

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hose who should be watching have looked away.

And while admiring the immediacy of business as usual, a scary new normal is happening right before the eyes of those who care to look.

Saloon tells us about wildfires in Alaska reporting that the Arctic state is battling two major blazes against a backdrop of rapid warming.

The story - “Alaska’s climate hell: Record heat, wildfires and melting glaciers signal a scary new normal” – reports the fire crews have been preparing for a season marked by unusually hot, dry weather — and following a winter marked by below-average snowfall, blazes are worsened.

“Any associations you might have with Alaska being a generally chilly place, actually, were belied by last month’s heat wave: with average temperatures 7.1 degrees above normal, the state had its hottest May in 91 years of record-keeping,” it reports.