> This summer is what a 1.2°C-heated planet looks like. But in the future this won’t seem so bad — compared to the 1.5°C-heated planet. If we get to 2°C …
A friend said something to me a while ago that I cannot get out of my head when people are complaining about a heat wave again: Think not so much that this summer is one of the hottest in the last, but one of the coolest in the next hundred years.
I am tempted to replace 100 by 650 to match the article, or just talk about "the past" and "the future". But a hundred years makes it more tangible for me. My late grandparents were born just a little over 100 years ago, and my youngest niece and nephew may live to see the next 100 years.
A friend said something to me a while ago that I cannot get out of my head when people are complaining about a heat wave again: Think not so much that this summer is one of the hottest in the last, but one of the coolest in the next hundred years.
I am tempted to replace 100 by 650 to match the article, or just talk about "the past" and "the future". But a hundred years makes it more tangible for me. My late grandparents were born just a little over 100 years ago, and my youngest niece and nephew may live to see the next 100 years.