If you spend any time with The Driller, you’ve likely seen or heard us use the words “climate” and “change” — increasingly one right after the other, like this: “climate change.” See what happened right there? Half of you clicked back to ESPN.com or your preferred silo of a news site. For those who stuck around, thanks. Congratulate yourselves. Your open minds leave you open to opportunity.
First, a bit of justification. I, personally, am not a meteorologist, climatologist or even a hydrologist. I leave that important work to the experts who spend years studying that stuff. But I do live in a world and make amateur observations with my own eyes. Just in the last 10 years, in separate incidents: