It is 18 degrees Celsius in the middle of February here in Germany. The birds started to sing in mass like it is April, and my trees started to sprout leaves. This is not normal.
We will soon enter the next annual agriculture disaster in this region, when all the crops and trees start to bloom due to warm weather, shortly before temperatures are dropping below zero again, killing all the produce...
I can already predict the Solution:
1.) Pay additional subsidies for farmers to compensate for the loss / subsidize heating the crops/trees to bridge through the freezing temps
2.) Import goods from further away, increasing the carbon footprint of the produce and increasing overall margin for importers
3.) "Let's hope for better next year"
4.) (optional) Farmers go on strike for more funding, are played against climate protesters
Worth to emphasize that the article is set in the 2018, and this already happened!
Regulations to reduce poisoned pollution at sea were imposed in 2020 by the United Nations’s International Maritime Organization (IMO). Those poisonous clouds used to increase solar reflection at sea which apparently reduced warming by 0.1 watts per square meter, something that wasn't considered in climate predictions for the coming decades (and is now contributing to dramatic deviations in existing global climate models).
Here's an updated article from late-2023 about it:
