“Untitled (Men),” a diptych photograph by Matt Lipps © The artist. Courtesy Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, and Marc Selwyn Fine Arts, Beverly Hills, California

New studies confirmed that the current warming period is without precedent in the past two thousand years. Permafrost in the Canadian Arctic is thawing seventy years ahead of schedule, nitrous-oxide emissions from Arctic permafrost are twelve times higher than expected, and it was feared that existing models may underestimate underwater glacial melt by two orders of magnitude. Wildfires ravaged the Arctic, a meltwater lake appeared at the North Pole, and a European…