Big Bear, California: The World’s Most Scenic Glitch in the Climate Matrix
Big Bear, California—population 5,000 when the Wi-Fi cooperates—has become the planet’s most improbable weather vane. While the rest of us doom-scroll through melting Antarctic shelves and European rivers evaporating like cheap gin, this pine-scented pimple on the San Bernardino Mountains keeps serving up allegories in real time. A Siberian oligarch’s Gulfstream touches down, disgorges a…