Eat the Sky

Not only will the climate catastrophe cause uncomfortable turbulence on business flights, drown valuable real estate and give rise to swarming hordes of beastly migrants. The changes in the composition of the air are thinning out the stratosphere, which is just upstairs and which matters to some Guardian readers owing to the potential for deterioration in the performance of the Global Positioning System. Still, the Anthropocene Extinction Event remains something less than front-page news; nevertheless, within a few decades the inconvenience may be so significant as to affect mobile phones and navigation robots, and thereby impinge even upon the consciousness of mainstream journalists.