Hellscape ...

Not even close to the peak in Phoenix on Wednesday.Photographer: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Nice to see Bloomberg agreeing with yours truly regarding GW as it's just the beginning, something BRT has been talking about for years.

Pure hell.Source: Mark Gongloff via Twitter

By 2050, 3.4 billion people could be living in areas facing ecological disaster. “Our civilization was built for a climate that’s vanishing,” David Fickling argues, noting that signs of self-destruction are all around us, from crumbling stormwater channels to inadequate building codes. “Modern society is a sort of collective insurance policy protecting us against the worst external shocks. But insurance policies have a price that rises with the cost of disasters — and we don’t know the point at which they will break altogether,” he writes. The world has grown exponentially more delicate in recent years, and although we’re not fully over the cliff of catastrophe just yet, we’re dangerously close to the tipping point, when stone fruits struggle to grow and skyscrapers slide into the ground.

I am not pessimistic, only realistic and ... a hellscape of our own making, looms.