Sometimes I have this dream.
I’m going for a hike and discover a remote farmhouse on fire.
Children are calling for help from the upper windows. So I call the fire brigade. But they don’t come, because some mad person keeps telling them that it is a false alarm.
The situation is getting more and more desperate, but I can’t convince the firemen to get going.
I cannot wake up from this nightmare.
Stefan Rahmstorf
Head of Earth System Analysis
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research