This past summer, we took note of some extraordinarily bad climate news out of Siberia.

What's been going on in Siberia, in the northern Siberia, towards Arctic Circle, has been crazy.

It's been so unusually warm. It's ridiculous.

Emergency crews in northern Russia are using explosives to put out nearly 300 fires.

Unusually warm weather has helped fires break out across Siberia.

And this is not Santa Cruz.

This is Siberia.

A searing heat wave swept through one of the coldest regions on Earth,

and with it a dramatically altered ecology,

melting ice sheets spewing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Truly alarming news from the biggest story in the history of the planet, but this unthinkable

environmental catastrophe flashed for an instant and promptly disappeared from the news.

Why? Why are humans and the subset of humanity called the media still subordinating the

destruction of planet Earth as a vague and distant threat?

Well, obviously, part of the answer is the immediate threat.

COVID-19, a plague infecting the entire globe,

but coronavirus has its own odd psychology.

At the peak of the lockdowns back in April,

there were approximately 30,000 new cases reported a day.

This past week, the number of new cases per day is more

than 200,000. News that has washed over the society as if it were just the way things are.

David Roberts writes about energy policy for Fox. I spoke to him in July after he wrote about the mental phenomenon

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