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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green ("Pauline von Hellermann") wrote:

#ClimateDiary “Above is a fictional weather forecast for August 18, 2050, broadcast by French television in 2014, intended to warn against the disastrous consequences of global warming.

Below is the weather forecast for June 22, 2026.”

(By @jakubwiech on unmentionable)

This brings out super starkly how #ClimateChange has accelerated so much more quickly than we thought even just 12 years ago.

Two photos of weather forecasts, showing maps of France, above one imagined in 2014 of a 2050 forecast of temperatures of high 30s, occasional 40-42, overall more orange; below actual forecast yesterday showing majority red and over 40s across France.