Canada is a warning: temperatures are reaching the limits of human survivability | Simon Lewis

Without an immediate global effort to combat the climate emergency, the Earth's uninhabitable areas will keep growingThe climate crisis means that summer is a time of increasingly dangerous heat. This week in the Pacific north-west, temperature records are not just being broken, they are being obliterated. Temperatures reached a shocking 47.9C in British Columbia, Canada. Amid temperatures more typically found in the Sahara desert, dozens have died of heat stress, with "roads buckling and power cables melting". Related: How did a small town in Canada become one of the hottest places on Earth? Continue reading...