The Invisible Now Visible Everywhere

For decades, the scientists and climatologists have been trying to make this invisible gas visible to us with their graphs, presentations, and IPCC reports. For years, the artists have tried to make the invisible visible through their stories, poems, books, movies and art installations. Now, -and this has been going on for a while already but is now becoming more and more frequent-, the Earth itself is relentlessly making the invisible visible through wildfires, floods, typhoons, hurricanes, melting glaciers and droughts. I would be surprised if you have not personally experienced one or more of these extreme weather events in the last few years. In the last twelve months alone, I have lived through three of those: the summer 2022 heat wave in London, the devastating fires in France last July, and the twelve atmospheric storms in California this past winter. And now, New York city and Washington D.C. and Philadelphia and …