The climate crisis has already arrived. Just look to California’s abnormal wildfires | Alastair Gee, Dani Anguiano

In the last decade, amid drought and searing heat, California has entered the era of megafires' and has become the examplar for climate change extreme events today'

There's an idea that when the climate crisis begins, we will know it. Movies present it as a moment when the world's weather suddenly turns apocalyptic: winds howl, sea levels surge, capital cities are decimated. Climate messaging can bolster this notion, implying that we have a certain number of years to save the day before reaching a cataclysmic point of no return.

Living in expectation of a definitive global break can blind us to the fact that gradually, insidiously, the climate crisis has already arrived.