The Road to Climate Hell Is Downhill—and Scenic
Death Valley’s Present Is a Window Into the Future
If the world really is going to hell, you should get your brakes checked. The ride is going to be very downhill.
I learned that lesson, among others, after my own brakes started to smoke while descending down, down, down Highway 190 into California’s answer to the underworld—Death Valley.
I did not run into the Devil on this Death Valley visit. The thermometer on these winter days never surpassed 70, and Satan, suggested one local tour guide, feels more comfortable this time of year in the hellish Southern hemisphere summer of Australia’s …
