Without even reading the article (for my own mental wellbeing) I can tell you it's climate change and it's just yet another thing on top of the pile and things will get much worse over the next decade.
But at least since about 2-3 months ago we suddenly stopped talking about climate change and how it will be a near humanity ending event, so at least I stress a little less.
Yes, as we burn more fossil fuels and raise the temperature, water evaporates faster and the air holds more, so you get both more intense dry periods and more intense rainfall.
The WSJ leaves out the fossil fuels part.
WSJ left out the fossil fuels part? Like, the actual cause of the biggest catastrophe in human history, ever, that is happening right now?
Go figure.
Most of the English-language press leaves that out: the fossil fuels industry is a major advertiser
Important to clarify we're also gonna drown. Drowning and starving while we're burning. Thanks so much capitalism and petrochemicals. Where would we be without you? Ah, yeah, not in hell. Can't have an actually decent world, nope, nuh uh. That's for suckers, I guess.
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.