LENOX — It sure looks like Apocalypse Now — video footage online and on TV of massive wildfires threatening Yosemite National Park and numerous towns in California, historic flooding in central and eastern Pennsylvania, heat records fried by all-time highs in the Southwest, Quebec, Japan, Greece, even north of the Arctic Circle in Swedish Lapland.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, probably a bad choice of words, considering the plight of 169 beleaguered residents on the isolated island of Innaarsuit in western Greenland, a fishing community threatened by a potential tsunami from an 11 million-ton iceberg lurking just offshore.
As scientists explore potential links between climate change and extreme weather, here are some remarkable details this month:
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Exposing the Big Game 
I think the wildfires have been mostly the result of arsonists? With the dry conditions, the winds, and loss of life and property – I do hope these unique to the human species nutjobs are held to account.
There’s been a lot of lightning strikes (thanks, in part, to global warming) starting fires this year, also.
Yes, there are enough natural reasons without the stupid putting their few cents in.
And some of them set good people back more than a few cents…