Thus The Independent today. “Researchers describe losses as being at ‘high end’ of forecasts by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007,” elaborates the newspaper. Sea level rise is now forecast to increase significantly, and researchers expect that the most pessimistic forecasts will prove to be right. The causes and effects of the rapid melting are not yet clear, concludes the article gingerly, but the melting is widely attributed to global warming. Surprise, surprise. But the story is perfectly clear by now: climate change is proceeding faster than expected. Well, faster than the morons out there expected. It can well be called rapid, dramatic, radical, and so on. If I am so clever, though, why am I still reading this sort of crap? It is high time to promise myself to read about climate change never again. Never ever. And no kidding. Promises, promises…