The Florida LearJet crash is a profound tragedy. The personal loss for those involved is too much for words to capture, and I won't try. If anyone reading this lost anyone in the crash you have my deepest condolences.

It's also a tragedy of the internet age. Distressing amounts of media were available within hours of the crash.

From that information, is is clear that it is also very much a tragedy of climate change. The plane was cruising at 35000 feet at -53° F in November. Even in Florida, this was not a place where they should have hit heavy icing at this time of year.

The storm increased 15k feet in height in 20 minutes. At 12:45pm they were 2k feet above the top of the storm with light icing, 3 minutes later they hit the heavy icing conditions, and the storm went through the tropopause by the time they crashed, radar measured the storm topping out at 48,300 feet.

This is not normal. These people died because of climate change. That storm growth rate and the presence of supercooled liquid water at that altitude at this time of year is one more flashing red light in this global emergency.

This will not be on the NTSB report and it will go underreported in the coverage of this this tragedy.