The Day After Tomorrow Was Yesterday

 It feels like we are living through the first vertiginous 15 minutes of a disaster movie, maybe one called “The Day After Tomorrow Was Yesterday.”

Crazy storms that used to hit every century now seem quotidian, overwhelming systems that cannot withstand such a battering.

As Angela Merkel and President Biden touted a climate and energy partnership on her recent visit here, nature mocked them. While the two leaders had dinner, rains submerged huge swaths of Germany, including medieval towns.

“Everything we worried about is happening, and it’s all happening at the high end of projections, even faster than the previous most pessimistic estimates,” 

Maureen Dowd Opinion Columnist New York Times 24 July 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/24/opinion/sunday/climate-change-floods-wildfires.html

Scientists say the shifting pattern of the jet stream is exacerbating the effects of climate change

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2021/07/scientists-say-shifting-pattern-of-jet.html

Det är kört. Så kan man helt kort sammanfatta Jonathan Jeppssons bok ”Åtta steg mot avgrunden”.

 2050 kommer lika mycket energi att användas till världens luftkonditionering som hela Kina använder i dag för att producera all sin elektricitet”

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2020/08/det-ar-kort-sa-kan-man-helt-kort.html