The Reason For Seasons

As 2021 draws down, it leaves a trail of climate disasters. From floods in Europe to heatwaves in Canada, hurricanes across the US, droughts in

Africa

and deluges in Asia, the climate has changed from being a stable friend to an entity none can recognise. Its devastation is huge —

Swiss Re

, the global reinsurance company, estimates that losses from
extreme weather exceeded $100 billion in 2021.




The

World Meteorological Organization

estimates that in 2020, while India lost $87 billion to extreme weather, China lost $238 billion. From 1980 onwards, 285 climate disasters caused losses of over $1.875 trillion for the US. These are only one side of the tale — changing climate is now causing the loss of five million precious lives each year, giving rise to the term ‘mortality cost of carbon’.




These losses are due to human behaviour. As we’ve consumed, produced and wasted more and more, carbon emissions have risen, increasing temperature in the atmosphere. As

Times Evoke

’s global experts explain, this has impacted the complex and intricately interwoven dynamics of the winds, oceans, glaciers and precipitation which create our climate — as these change, so will our seasons, impacting all life on Earth.



Such behaviour is driven by humanity trivialising its own self. In our pursuit of all that is plastic and tin, we are forgetting the grandeur of our lives. We are placed on a planet blessed to bear life due to its orbit around the sun which gives it just enough warmth to live. Further, our Earth stands at a tilt which means it receives differing sunlight at different times, causing the seasons and allowing it to radiate excess warmth back.

This incredible metaphysical dance — of distance and nearness, physics and astronomy — creates glowing summers and chilling winters, spring that rejuvenates, burnished autumn and rains that drench us with joy. As we intensify carbon emissions, thickening Earth’s delicate greenhouse cover, we lose these seasons and their gifts. For sustainable lives, we must rediscover this wondrous science. Join Times Evoke on a journey of understanding our climates, why these are changing — and how to preserve them for they enable the miracle of our life.

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