It gets cheerier: there have been reports of cases of H5N1 ('bird flu') in humans. With brain worm guy in charge of HHS what could possibly go wrong? And there are some signs the AMOC is starting to stall. Without that giant heat transport system, equatorial Atlantic waters get warmer and the air above gets more humid so bigger storms, more precipitation - and northern Atlantic waters get a lot colder, so Europe's climate become similar to Canada's Pacific coast and southern Alaska (just look at a world map, follow the lines of latitude around. Not as harsh as Siberia as an ocean to the West moderates the climate, but...).