After the Cold

After spending a week resting and recovering from my cold, I finally got to go for a long run this morning, heading out to the airport in Kiruna just in time to see Zimex Aviation's ATR 42 touch down from Umeå with the mail.

Over the course of my run, the sun broke through the clouds, making me wish I had taken shorts and t-shirt rather than winter running gear. This year, the spring is unusually early in the Arctic, melting away glaciers that are already at record lows – all consistent with what we would expect in a changing climate. In today’s Dagens Nyheter, there is an article about covert climate activists working in different Swedish government agencies. Reading it, I am struck again by the tragic mismatch between individual moral conviction and the scale of action required to address the global, gigaton realities of climate change.