Here in the Great Southern Land it‘s rather colder than usual, with so much rain the eastern states have been experiencing severe flooding ffor several months now, with thousands displaced or actually homeless, living in their cars, sheds or tents.

Don’t try to tell me that climate change isn’t a thing.

I heard from a friend in Japan a couple of weeks ago that they were having a record heat wave, too. This planet is in trouble - humanity and all the other species we'll take down with us. I am glad I am old and won't be here longer, but I feel so bad for my loved ones (and everyone's loved ones) who will be left to deal with the problems to come.

Yes. There are no words for my sorrow over the state of the world, the planet.

The high today in San Francisco will be 63°, it will be 75° for a high at my house in L.A., and Vancouver will have a high of 74°.

No one I know has A/C in San Francisco, and for a while I did not have it in L.A., but I do now. It was even cooler in the summer when I lived in Venice, as I was only a few blocks from the beach. The nearest beach was three blocks from us then. Of course we did live in a tsunami zone while there.

It is hot in Cathedral City, and yesterday the pool water was 92°, which actually felt hot when I moved my hand in it. If I didn't move, it did not feel as hot. I prefer for the water to be 85-87°.

In the 1950s I decided that I never wanted to have children because I did not want to bring a life into a world that would be ravaged by nuclear war - the duck & cover drills were very scary, not to mention the Civil Defense notifications warning everyone to be aware of where the nearest bomb shelter was. I remember buildings downtown that had the CD logos on them.

Now it seems that global warming is a bigger threat than nuclear war, but global warming and overpopulation could lead to a nuclear war - I really don't know.

I think global warming can be slowed down, if there is enough will to do it.

We have been poisoning the earth for decades and now we wonder what to do about it? The powers that be didn't seen concerned when they were making millions of dollars off of their pollution/plastics.

Several years ago I watched a documentary about global warming. The take away was that the high temperatures will make the pollution we've created into a deadly stew: air, waterways, ocean, etc. Scary for us all, but our grandchildren and great grandchildren will get the worst of what we've left them.

It will take all the industry, those leaders, and all the wealthy/super wealthy people in the world to change anything... the people with the real power. They have to want to make the changes needed, but they have little foresight and see only profit. And governments too, but they're ususally not as powerful as we think they are.