Bonnie & Colin

And just like (snap!) that, we now have Tropical Storms Bonnie and Colin.

Tropical Storm Bonnie is currently crossing Central America near the Nicaragua/Costa Rica border and is expected to continue traveling west. Gradual strengthening to hurricane-force winds is forecast after Bonnie emerges over the eastern Pacific later this morning and should continue through Tuesday. Bonnie will then move offshore of but parallel to the coasts of El Salvador, Guatemala, and southern Mexico today through Tuesday. Bonnie will continue to produce heavy rain across portions of Nicaragua and Costa Rica through today. This rainfall is expected to result in life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides in Nicaragua and Costa Rica.  

Tropical Storm Colin is located over South Carolina. The center of Colin is expected to move northeastward along or just inland of the North Carolina coast through Sunday, and then emerge over the western Atlantic Ocean late Sunday. Colin will continue to produce locally heavy rainfall across coastal portions of the Carolinas through Sunday morning. This rainfall may result in localized areas of flash flooding. Colin is expected to dissipate over the western Atlantic on Monday.

The evidence of human-induced climate change is all around us.  The need to take action and reduce carbon emissions is urgent, and yet the Supreme Court, in a decision strictly along partisan lines, decided that they don't think the EPA asked "Mother, may I?" of Congress properly or sufficiently.  But instead of chastising EPA and requiring proper authorization be issued, the Court instead shut down EPA's ability to limit carbon emissions from power plants, jeopardizing the U.S.'s ability to meet carbon-reduction goals and imperiling the planet. The only ones benefitting from the decision are the coal industry and the conservative bona fides of the six conservative judges (two of whom were improperly seated).

Criminals. Bonnie and Colin, Bonnie and Clyde. Boney Carrot and Kegstand.  May their houses decrease and sink back into the swamp from which they arose.