Climate News Network: Stand by for extreme weather. Prepare for heat waves on a scale that was once unprecedented. For once, there are no "ifs' in the forecast, no caveats about modeling business-as-usual-scenarios rather than dramatic reductions of emissions for near-term warming
Even if governments abandon fossil fuels everywhere, immediately, and invest only in green energy, there will be new record temperatures. The greenhouse gas emissions of the last few decades now mean that regions of the planet subjected to...