The Changing Climate By Hank Silverberg I spent a lot of time with my grandchildren over the long holiday weekend. Both are preschoolers, and if they stay healthy, they will both live well into the second half of the 21 st century. The day after Thanksgiving when most people were shopping, traveling, or playing with the grand kids, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a new 16- hundred-page study on climate change https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/ that took two and a half years to complete. It concludes that Greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures, sea levels and super storms are trending upward. It was dumped on a news day when few were paying attention, for a reason: the current administration in Washington doesn't like it. Last year, 2017 ranked in the top ten warmest years ever recorded globally, and in the bottom ten of coolest years. Cali...