Inslees on climate in Iowa
4/22/19
Hamburg, Iowa (CNN)Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has staked his 2020 campaign on climate change — and here, in America’s heartland, he looked to test whether the floodwaters of Iowa could prove to be fertile ground for his bid.
It’s a place that demonstrates how the Great Floods of 2019 — brought on by wild temperature swings bringing rapid snow melt and “bomb cyclone” rains in mid-March swelling the Missouri River and its tributaries — have set the worst kind of record.