It was the decade when climate change stopped being a forecast and started being an experience. The latest example from WaPo: “Australia is in the throes of one of its most extreme heat events, having broken a national record for the hottest nationally averaged high temperature on two straight days.”

+ Don’t want to believe the environmentalists? How about the capitalists? The Guardian: Snow machines and fleece blankets: inside the ski industry’s battle with climate change. (The next decade will be a nonstop Black Diamond run.)