Global heading causing disasters

Global heating is producing extreme weather events so often that, by chance, sometimes two of them combine to produce a local disaster. That just happened in Yellowstone National Park, where it permanently changed the course of the Yellowstone River.

"Recovery could take years", but the concept of "recovery" presumes that the weather system will be stable enough that there is a new "normal" to be found. That may not happen — global heating is accelerating.

The flooding shut down the water processing of the city of Billings, which almost ran out of drinking water.