A 2°C warmer Earth?

IF you are wondering why we are being “baked” by heat, even inside our homes, the answer is in the report published last Monday by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO): the Earth is heating up like never before “primarily due to the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide reaching the highest level in 800,000 years”. Canada is burning, with 166 fires reported to be sweeping across the country. Towns and cities are being smoked out by the wildfires. Some parts of France, Spain and Portugal are also experiencing record-breaking temperatures. Newspaper headlines sound the same alarm: unusually heavy rainfall causes floods and landslides in China, thunderstorms and tornadoes batter…