Call it climate one-upmanship. It seems everyone has to outdo previous climate chaos rhetoric. The climate crisis is the existential threat of our time, Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her House colleagues. We must end the inaction and denial of science that threaten the planet and the future. Former California Governor Jerry Brown solemnly intoned that America has an enemy, though different, but perhaps very much devastating in a similar way as the Nazis in World War II.