The rate of climate change has accelerated significantly faster than previously anticipated, as evidenced by the comparison between a fictional 2050 weather forecast from 2014 and a real 2026 forecast.

#ClimateDiary “Above is a fictional weather forecast for August 18, 2050, broadcast by French television in 2014, intended to warn against the disastrous consequences of global warming. Below is the weather forecast for June 22, 2026.” (By @jakubwiech on unmentionable) This brings out super starkly how #ClimateChange has accelerated so much more quickly than we thought even just 12 years ago.

Climate change proceeds faster than even fiction assumed. Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for June 22, 2026. #ClimateChange