Global Warming In Seattle?

Just a short note today because it’s too hot to think.

Cliff Mass, meteorologic scientist at the University of Washington says that we will not be able to truly assess global warming for 100 years. I understand the science of this. Other scientists say that various "hot spots" around the globe are not evidence of warming, that taken as a whole the world is not actually getting warmer. I've not looked at that data. But as a scientist, I understand the importance of looking at data in the aggregate. I also understand the essential nature of assessing cases to see if they teach us something. Anything at all.

So what might it mean that today Seattle will be over 100 degrees for the first time ever? Or simply tie the too-hot 100 degrees of Summer 1994. It has already been in the 90's for a week. The Pacific Northwest is not equipped for such climates. We have no air conditioning in our homes. Movie theaters are making money. People are flooding the malls and grocery stores just to stay cool. I will have a crazy electric bill because I am running a portable AC unit, inefficiently, but I work at home. I am not mall ready yet; that takes energy. And the heat has made me loopy to boot. With a brain apparently attuned to 70 degrees and cells already degrading due to age, the additional 30 degrees have been - how do you spell that word - devastation?

So how does Seattle have, in one year, never before seen floods, rains, landslides and heat. I am on the lookout for locusts. And then Armageddon.