Paintings collectively valued at up to one-hundred and fifty-million dollars were stolen from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam in October 2012. Seven paintings went missing: Pablo Picasso “Harlequin Head” (1971); Claude Monet “Waterloo Bridge, London” (1901) and “Charing Cross Bridge, London” (1901); Henri Matisse “Reading Girl in White and Yellow” (1901); Paul Gauguin “Girl in Front of Open Window” (1898); Meyer de Haan “Self-Portrait” (1890); and Lucian Freud “Woman with Eyes Closed” (2002). Together with two other suspects, Radu Doragu from Romania was apprehended by the police in January 2013 in connection with the theft. Olga Doragu, his mother, confessed in July that year to having burnt the seven paintings in her kitchen stove in the Romanian village of Carcaliu in a bid to destroy the evidence when her son was arrested. According to her testimony, she placed the suitcase containing the paintings into the stove, added some logs, slippers, and rubber shoes, and waited until everything was burnt completely. Experts have analyzed the ashes, and found remnants of canvass, paint, and copper and steel nails, but they could not determine how many paintings were burnt. At any rate, a rendering of Picasso’s lost painting now graces the front page of my book on climate change and what is to be done about it. In my mind, it serves two purposes. To begin with, it can pass as a likeness of the book’s author. The harlequin is on the elderly side, that is. More important, it heralds many painful losses to come in the fullness of time.