2025 Will Be The Coldest Year of the Rest of Your Life

But ‘Global Warming’ won’t be renamed ‘Global Freezing’ anytime soon

Winter is fading away (photo by author)

It’s March 21st, 2025, and the vernal equinox has arrived in Sweden, just south of the Arctic Circle. Spring should be gently easing in, yet the weather has been more of between winter’s last breath and spring’s hesitant arrival. One day, the wind cuts through my coat like a jagged knife and thick snowdrifts swallow the ground whole. The next, the sun melts the snow into slush, I’m peeling off layers under an unseasonably warm sky and hopeful crocuses and snowdrops peek through the frost — before being buried again.

I tell myself I should be used to it by now, but these impulsive shifts feel jarring and uncomfortable. And I’m not prepared for winter to disappear just yet, especially after the in the 47-year satellite record.

But then, as I step back from my frozen backyard, the broader picture becomes even more disorienting. While my small corner of the world fluctuates between frost and thaw, : droughts and floods, heatwaves and wildfires happening all over the globe, with no warning signs attached.