These Terrifying Photos Of Weather-Related Chaos Show Earth’s Climate Crisis First Hand

One product of our surreal age is that the all-consuming maelstrom of news swirling out of wherever Donald Trump is at any given moment - has essentially buried the fact that the world is on fire. No, really. It's on fire. The West Coast is on fire. Greece is on fire. Also, Myanmar is drowning in floodwater. A powerful typhoon slammed into Japan. India is wading through the remnants of a monsoon's deluge. Turkey is flooded. Laos is flooded. Ukraine is flooded. The earth beneath Germany is cracking up, starved of water amid a persistent drought. A heatwave swept through Russia and sent temperatures soaring above 100 degrees. It hit 90 in Siberia.

Attribution science, which ties exacerbated weather conditions to changing structural forces due to climate change, is still emerging as a field of study. But it seems inevitable now that we will learn all of these developments were made that much worse by our warming climate. There is a very real risk that the defining issue of our time - a unique threat to human civilisation as we know it - will have taken a back seat through this entire era as we discussed Brexit and porn-star payoffs. How will you explain it to your children?

In the meantime, have a look at some of the most captivating photos showcasing the diversity of chaos that has engulfed much of the world.