You guys make this easy. The water and the land are stationary targets. The climate (not weather) is a moving target that is always changing. You sound like a shaman who does a rain dance, if it rains then he is a hero, if it doesn't then he finds a scapegoat. Progressive environmentalism is a primitive religion.
It was the right who cleaned up the environment. Richard Nixon established the EPA with the support of the GOP. It was the middle class who decided that the highways were dirty and cleaned them up. Same middle class cleaned up the lakes and rivers. Why do you think they call them conservatives? Then something happened. The liberals started demanding that things be banned; paper bags, plastic bags, DDT, lead shot, etc even though the "evidence" was inconclusive and turned out to be dead wrong later. The left killed jobs and people, millions of each. What kind of idiots ban dust, rain water run off, and migrating species? Liberal progressive environmentalists that's who. I'm going to start calling the church of the LPE. or CLPE.