Unusual snowstorm closes three major Southern California freeways - Los Angeles Times

An unusually strong arctic blast dumped snow over a large swath of Southern California mountains and high deserts Wednesday, shutting down some of the state's busiest freeways, stranding thousands of motorists and cutting off several communities.

San Francisco alarmist Cameron Scott blames carbon dioxide for snow in Southern California

Not only did it hail, and maybe even snow a bit, in San Francisco early this week. It also snowed several inches in Southern California and Nevada. The snow was limited to mountains and high deserts, but it was still highly unusual.

Read the L.A. Times coverage to get a sense of how disrupting the weather was: These disruptions cost money, which is why it's more financially prudent—not to mention more amenable to our own survival as a species—to act now to limit climate change.

Cameron Scott opines on climate science and the alleged fossil-fueled conspiracy behind climate realism

I find climate change denial endlessly fascinating. On one level, it clearly reflects a basic human impulse to reject information that's simply too bleak to believe. But it also reflects too less innate tendencies. First, in the United States, populism—largely the anti-intellectual populism of the Republican party—has spawned a profound disregard for expertise and fact. It ranks among the lesser of many bad outcomes conjured by Republicans' cynical rejection of expertise and the education on which it relies.

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