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Yellow Skies Are Not Pretty

Yellow sky over Boston, July 15, 2026. Photo by Jason Pramas.

Many older environmentalists, myself included, have been trying to warn our fellow human beings about the danger of global warming since the 1980s.

Back then, there were fewer signs that what the vast majority of climate scientists were already saying about the then-looming crisis would come true.

Over the years, we’d be more likely than people around us to worry about summers getting hotter than they had been in our childhood. Or storms getting more intense. Or getting less rain where there used to be more and more rain where there used to be less. And so on. But the real dangers were still in the future and many people have trouble processing dangers that are not in the present, we understood.

And we did what we could for 40 years.

And it wasn’t enough.

And now global warming is definitely here. And it’s gotten so bad so fast that this week many of us on the East Coast were treated to two major manifestations of the climate crisis that is upon us like a wolf burying its fangs in our collective neck: Another of........

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