Vacation time

It’s that time of the year again, vacation. When we should relax intensively, energetically enjoy the time of from work and recuperate while magically getting all the things done that have ben put off during the last months. Or whatever...

Maybe the best self advice is to do it all, but in bits and pieces. So instead of the well thought through blog post I have had in the back of my mind for so long, just write more but less. We’ll see, or rather you will see if it works out.

This weekend has weather-wise been like summer days should be; hot days and warm evenings, slow winds and warming seawater just perfect for swimming, so sunny it was even OK to be indoors for some time. But now it seems as if we are heading for unstable weather in Sweden, more rain and wind rather than sun and soft breezes. 

Looking beyond weather, climate is nothing like business as usual. Heat records have been slashed on three continents This follows on the hottest May, hottest spring and hottest start of year ever recorded. There is no pause in global warming, whatever deniers will claim.

For us who live in northern Europe, it is likely that we will have the mixed "fortune" of relative cold and dampness as the planet swelters. The melting of Greenlands ice may contribute enough fresh water in the Atlantic to disrupt ocean circulation. It will not be a deep freeze, just more unpredictable weather as climate changes

This weekend might thus have been the best days of summer and I have enjoyed them. If we in coming weeks long for warmer weather, it is sobering to remember that the best long term possibility for a good summer is if we avoid heating up our common home and to our knowledge only liveable planet.