Global warming is a present reality, not a future threat

Somehow Phoenix, Arizona, where maximum temperatures have now exceeded 40C for 26 successive days, is America’s fastest growing big city.

A permanent focus on the future can blind us to what is already happening. We instead insist that life simply goes on, that we’re adapting.

 As climate anxiety grows, the risk that humanity continues to be the frog in a slowly boiling pot of water is only exacerbated by the fact that we continue to emphasise abstract statistics instead of things that people can really see and feel.

I understand the focus on the 2C limit, but it a) sounds small, b) refers to some date in the future, c) lacks any connection to human experience and d) does a pretty bad job of describing what is happening with temperatures.

John Burn-Murdoch FT 21 July 2023

https://www.ft.com/content/de449d0d-0558-48da-90b9-5bb4fe809dab