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Debates on the climate crisis must be evidence-based, says Paul Hartley What now appears to be the most important feature of public debate is that two sides of a question are presented. As George Monbiot points out (How the BBC let climate deniers walk all over it, 8 July), this has major shortcomings if we

Severity of hot spell in western US underlines dangerous impact of human-caused climate disruption Excessive heat warnings remained in place across swathes of the western US on Monday after Death Valley in California registered what could prove to be the highest reliably recorded temperature on Earth. After a cascade of record heatwaves in Canada, north-west

Going elsewhere may currently be complicated, but we can still immerse ourselves in distant realities We may now be able to look forward to unquarantined travel to and from amber-list countries, but as the colour coding indicates, it will be some time before access to the rest of the world can be taken for granted

Publication date: November 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 189 Author(s): Ángel Perni, Jesús Barreiro-Hurlé, José Miguel Martínez-Paz

Soaring temperatures are a way of life in the Central Valley, but racial disparities mean many have no access to relief In Cantua, a small town deep within California’s farming heartland, the heat had always been a part of life. “We can do nothing against it,” said Julia Mendoza, who’s lived in this town for

Satellite data shows temperature peaks are lasting longer and rising higher North America endured the hottest June on record last month, according to satellite data that shows temperature peaks lasting longer as well as rising higher. The heat dome above western Canada and the north-west United States generated headlines around the world as daily temperature