Well, the scientists stitch together a quilt of data from land thermometers, ships, and satellites, then compare today's temperature to that 1850-1900 patch—our best guess of a pre-industrial world. But from my desk in Delhi, that baseline feels like a luxury; our lived baseline shifted decades ago. My adaptation plans aren't for a future anomaly, but for today's heatwaves that already smash old records. I see it in the village migration files piling up—when the *kharif* crop fails year after year, the farmer's personal baseline has already collapsed.
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