“Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, floods – all are now more frequent and more intense,” President Barack Obama said during his State of the Union speech last February. “We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science – and act before it’s too late.”
