It appears that 2017 has been a year of a lot of catastrophes and I don’t recall a time in my career that I have reported so many volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes and of course the massive fires that were ignited all over the country. The summer’s record-breaking sequence of earth events has felt catastrophic and alarming because of the massive toll it has taken. This has even prompted conversations about what climate change has to do with all of this, and whether or not we are facing the end of the world.