The phrase has the connotation that now is 'normal,' like we've been riding an elevator of global temperature rise, and arrived at the top floor. 'It's hot up here at the new normal,' we say. 'Good thing it won't get worse.' Unfortunately, though, it will
and much of the media tend to refer to what’s happening. The term “new normal” gets bandied about a lot. It’s meant, of course, to provoke alarm—to point out we’re not experiencing freak aberrations, but rather the entirely predictable long-term effects of pumping huge quantities of greenhouse gasses into our atmosphere.
Unfortunately, though, it will. The changes we are experiencing are only accelerating. Each new season is a baseline from which things will get weirder still. There’ll be yet more heat domes, hurricanes, and flooding, coming at a faster and faster clip. In less than ten years, tropical