Angel Portillo doesnt think about climate change much. Its not that he doesnt care. He just has other things to worry about. Climate change seems so far away, so big.
Lately though, Portillo says he has been thinking about it more often.
Standing on the banks of a swollen and surging Arkansas River, just upriver from a cluster of flooded businesses and homes, its easy to see why.
"Stuff like this," he says, nodding at the frothy brown waters, "all of the tornadoes that have been happening it just doesnt seem like a coincidence, you know?"