The burning question

During a 2021 summer of extreme weather events across the globe, from cyclones in Indonesia and Fiji and severe floods in China, to record temperatures in Moscow and wildfires in the Pacific US, Sir David King, former UK chief scientific adviser and co-founder of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group, emphasised that a planetary rubicon had been crossed. “Nowhere is safe,” he declared. “The risks have been understood and known for so long and we have not acted, now we have a very narrow timeline for us to manage the problem.”  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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