Commentary: The Midwestern flood of 1993 was devastating. Climate change has made conditions worse.

Perhaps this is the summer that finally renders climate change real.

Flooding and soaring temperatures across the nation have made global warming indisputable. The problem, as always, is how to reach political consensus on an action plan. Republicans want to plant a “trillion” trees; Democrats want to limit carbon emissions.

If the nation’s response to the Midwest’s Great Flood of 1993 is any indication, we will remain paralyzed by apathy and conflicting agendas.

Thirty years ago this summer, one of America’s worst floods caused more