I couldn’t hold my tears back as I watched the testimony of four police officers in front of the House select committee on the January 6 insurrection. Strong, burly men turned into an emotional mess as they described what they went through that day in order to protect the men and women serving in the congress. I couldn’t help but feel their anguish, as the testimony was that moving and that charged. You have to be an individual of very low class if you hear about their pain and suffering and make light of it, make jokes about it, or try to diminish it in any way. Sadly, there were quite a few individuals on social and other media doing just that. As if these men, who have spent their entire adult life trying to protect the country from our enemies, are somehow themselves the enemy.
As the world staggers through another summer of extreme weather, experts are noticing something different: 2021′s onslaught is hitting harder and in places that have been spared global warming’s wrath in the past.
America’s new normal temperature is a degree hotter than it was just two decades ago. Scientists have long talked about climate change — hotter temperatures, changes in rain and snowfall and more extreme weather — being the “new normal.” Data released Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration put hard figures on the cliche.