^{New phrase: Climate Breakdown}

Securing decent living standards for all while cutting energy use | University of Leeds

https://www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/news/article/4862/securing-decent-living-standards-for-all-while-cutting-energy-use

2050 is sounding closer and closer and so far I don't think any large economies are even close to being on-track to meeting the Paris targets, which themselves were really too low.

James Hansen testified before Congress in 1988, which means we are now over halfway to 2050 from that point and carbon output has continued to rise until Covid hit. Those 33 years went by fast. the next 29 are going to go by fast too.

Chicago was supposed to the be city that could fare well in the face of... climate breakdown. It's not in the path of hurricanes or forest fires or multiple 110-degree days.

But the region has had its wettest and hottest years ever, and it turns out, that's a problem.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/07/07/climate/chicago-river-lake-michigan.html