What frightens me about the climate crisis is we don’t know how bad things really are

It’s becoming harder and harder not to see the effects of global warming right here, right now (and if you only see then, you’re still lucky enough not to feel them or suffer from them). From here, things will get worse. Indeed, they might already be worse than anticipated. «None of the observed changes so far (with a 1.2C temperature rise) are surprising. But they are more severe than we predicted 20 years ago, and more severe than the predictions of five years ago. We probably underestimated the consequences.»