Wild fires, heatwaves, crazy winds: this is what climate change looks like

The Fox News team loves mocking climate change whenever there's a snow storm (duh huh, where's the global warming now?, duh huh) but somehow they're nowhere to be found when the US is roasting under unusually hot conditions. Curious, isn't it?

But since at least 1988, climate scientists have warned that climate change would bring, in general, increased heat waves, more droughts, more sudden downpours, more widespread wildfires and worsening storms. In the United States, those extremes are happening here and now.

So far this year, more than 2.1 million acres have burned in wildfires, more than 113 million people in the U.S. were in areas under extreme heat advisories last Friday, two-thirds of the country is experiencing drought, and earlier in June, deluges flooded Minnesota and Florida.

"This is what global warming looks like at the regional or personal level," said Jonathan Overpeck, professor of geosciences and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona. "The extra heat increases the odds of worse heat waves, droughts, storms and wildfire. This is certainly what I and many other climate scientists have been warning about."

Now that the heatwave is destroying crops for midwestern farmers, will they finally pressure Washington to wake up to this problem?