Santa In the Time of Global Warming

Looking out post-prandially at the warm rain (24C) nearly at year's end, I'm conflicted. Something about my spinal-cord injury* makes me feel cold when others are uncomfortably warm. Much of the time climate change feels very good to me. I'm not even comfortable until it gets this warm, and then only if it's sunny. Yet I know that Earth's climate is dangerously out of control. I've been lucky so far. Many are suffering who would not on a stable planet. For centuries we've been perturbing the climate system, and now there are well over 8 billion of us. Don't let's become a cautionary tale for young ETs to tune out in their classrooms. Let's give ourselves the gift that keeps on giving.

*Relic of a car accident many years ago.