Warming!
It seems like a lot of coastal areas have been flooded. Recalling the global warming from your own world, you go looking for temperature records; that data should be in the history section, too. Pausing only to ask yourself if this world has ice caps like your home did, you scan the history stacks and soon find a shelf full of weather records. Fortunately, the instinctive knowledge which came with your wings includes familiarity with this world's measurement systems; without that familiarity, you'd have a good deal of trouble trying to unriddle these records. And when you do, it's pretty clear that this world has been growing steadily hotter, at a rate of (you find it easy to convert the figures in your head) about a quarter of a degree Celsius per year, for the past decade or so! This is decidedly not good.
Written by Catprog & Cubist on 25 September 2010