In 2005 abnormal temperatures were registered in many areas of the globe.

In a sense, the burden of proof has shifted from the people who are saying there's a risk, to the skeptics now.

Temperatures are getting hotter, and they are getting hotter faster now than at any time in the past.

People and their dwellings were such a thin dust on the surface of the globe, like invisible specks of bacteria on an orange, and the feeble lights of kebab shops and supermarkets failed utterly to register on the infinities of space above.

Such a phenomenon is abnormal.

I always tell my players, 'I want you to be abnormal,'