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The Crisis Report — 06

The Earth’s temperature is rising fast, and it’s not going to stop.

Richard Crim
8 min readAug 18, 2022

Meanwhile, the US/China War intensifies.

Snapshots of the changing world. June 1976, the last year the GMT was below the 0℃ baseline, and today.

A blanket of dangerous heat and drought is settling over many parts of the world. You don’t need me to tell you that, pretty much all of us are living it now. Global Warming is becoming real in a direct, tangible, and extremely scary way.

A shepherd watches a fire burning a wheat field between Tabara and Losacio, in the province of Zamora, Spain

No one was expecting it to get this bad so quickly.

The Climate Models everyone has been using to plan the “slow and steady progress” using “market-based policies” that “are not disruptive of global economic and financial systems” did not indicate heat at these levels until mid-century. So there have been a spate of headlines like this.

A hypothetical weather forecast for 2050 is already coming true — CNN 071522

Which, if you think about it, should really make you furious. It should make you want to storm the offices of oil corporations and governments. It should make you want to hunt down Climate Deniers who have been lying to everyone for decades. It should make you want to demand harsh justice for…

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Richard Crim
Richard Crim

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My entire life can be described in one sentence: Things didn’t go as planned, and I’m OK with that.

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