The extraordinary fact is that we don't know which is more likely, a future offering us eons of perishing frigidity or one giving us equal expanses of steamy heat.
This farm, with its verdant vistas and a trickling waterfall, seems far removed from the rising sea levels, blistering heat and destructive storms that characterize climate change.
In that case I represent the mother of a five-year-old Yazidi child who was enslaved, chained outdoors to a window and left to slowly die of thirst in the scorching heat.
He brings in about half the trees he sells each year, mostly balsam and grand firs from the Pacific northwest where tree crops have also been hit hard by fires and extreme heat.
According to a report released earlier this month, the annual temperatures in Paris have warmed by more than 3 degrees over the past century, with the city experiencing an average of nine more " scorching" days per year.
Though it's been cooler than average in the central part of the United States, areas of the west have seen sweltering heat waves and that can make wildfires worse.