A reader comments on the wreckage that used to be Iowa:
It was a derecho. A very large derecho: 770 miles long lasting 14 hours, starting in eastern Nebraska and traveling easterly across Iowa and Illinois. I worry that they may start occurring in MN more often. Climate change definitely involved. 115mph winds in eastern Iowa. Not much can stand up to that.
It took 250 years to hit 1°C of global warming by 2015, the fastest change in 65 million years.
It’ll take 25 years to hit 2°C by 2040.
Here’s what I was able to find, from Wikipedia, in turn from NASA.
Not the sort of curve you want to see on temperatures – unless you’re a fusion reactor developer.
And my Arts Editor reports that one of her Iowa contacts hasn’t had power for an entire week now.
