The future. I'm living on the moon. It's terraformed, though not very well yet--a thin, barely breathable atmosphere, and it's still very cold on average. We still mostly live in domes and caves. Mars is much farther along: seas and forests and all--at a casual glance it could nearly be Earth seen from an angle where a lot of desert shows.

Lots of political intrigue between the three worlds. Some things don't change!

Like the weather. For weeks now, a huge ice-storm, Moon-wide. We all huddle indoors. Burrow fever, but it's too cold to go out, even with electric parkas.

Such ice storms used to be common, in the early days of terraforming. Thought we'd eliminated them at last. I worry this is a harbinger, that the bad old days are returning. But sitting inside for days, I sit down and really study all the global climate-data for the first time in years. It's soon clear the storm was born of extraordinary conditions--maybe even seeded, by political agents.

But as I run projections, it looks like the storm's turmoil may itself tip the climate over permanently to a warmer, milder, wetter state, more Martian than lunar.

Still cold, still thin-aired... but if my numbers are right, this may be the last global ice storm the Moon will ever see.

NOTES IN THE MORNING

Echoes here of "the Year Without Summer", in Kim Stanley Robinson's RED MARS trilogy--a setback in their terraforming program, but it didn't mean they'd lost the war.

I've been sick and antisocial. But the dream suggests my turmoil will motivate healthy changes--I may not be this ill again for a long time.

ACTION: Patience! Courage! And... take protective actions I've dismissed as stopgaps. Do what small things I can, and ride this time of illness out. This storm's the last.

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