Climate Change Art: is it always palliative?
Notes from The Climate Refuge
NASA has reported that July 22, 2024 was the hottest day on the planet ever recorded, and the summer that just ended in the northern hemisphere was the hottest of all time. August 2024 is more or less tied with August 2023 for the world’s hottest all-time August, and two billion people, a quarter of the earth’s population, felt dangerous heat for thirty or more days this past summer.
Between March and June, 37 cities in India experienced temperatures above 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit), leading to 40,000 recorded cases of heatstroke and over 700 heat-related deaths.1 Both Europe and Japan also recorded their highest ever summer temperatures, and heat records were even broken in several parts of Australia for warmest winter temperatures.
Yet fall is here and it is indeed decorative gourd season, so it already feels that we’re starting to forget about how terrifying the weather was quite recently.
