Global heat is now 'gobsmackingly bananas', but there's hope humanity can limit the climate damage | Adam Morton

It's hard to overstate just how exceptionally high global temperatures are now, but we have the technology to avert disaster "Absolutely gobsmackingly bananas" is not standard scientific language, but these are not standard times, scientifically.New data shows average global temperatures in September were not just the hottest ever recorded, but 0.5C above the previous record for the month. They were about 1.8C above temperatures in pre-industrial times, before humans started pumping vast amounts of heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...