It's hard to get the full picture of the climate anomalies happening across the planet. A few days ago, video of frightening flash floods from North India jostled with others from Turkey, Japan, England and New England. Terrifying maps of oceans whose surface water is as warm as a hot tub bespeak a global phenomenon. Meanwhile, killer heatwaves beset places that don't always report each other's calamities. Aljazeera, thanks.Anomalies is a technical term but in its everyday sense it's the wrong word. The Anthropocene means the "nomos" is no more. As for the records being broken daily, we're only getting started. As the New Yorker's Jia Tolentino put it in article on climate emotions, And this, today, is as good as it will ever get within our lifetimes: every day that we step out into the uncanny weather, we experience a better and more stable climate than any we will ever experience again.
Why mention it in this blog, then? I'm not sure. The thought that at some point we'll look back at now with envy curdles the blood.
