What Will the Day After Tomorrow Be Like?

We live in an era of climate change. There can be no doubt about that. The instability of the climate system is obvious: first there’s an unprecedentedly hot summer in Europe and Asia, then catastrophic autumn hurricanes in the tropics, then unheard-of freezes that lock up Europe.

But what is driving climate change?

People begin blaming themselves for global warming caused by the greenhouse effect. Indeed, the scale of human impact on the environment is becoming comparable to nature.

And what if people, as only temporary inhabitants of the planet, aren’t really that guilty? The mechanism of climate fluctuations is practically unknown to us. We can only assume why, in the geological past, there were sharp transitions from heat to cold and back. And all the more we cannot predict whether a new Ice Age will come, or whether we’re headed toward a greenhouse world.

So what will happen the day after tomorrow?