In its latest report, the World Meteorological Organization confirmed what the world had been fearing. There is a 98-percent possibility that at least one of the next five years will be the hottest on record.
Moreover, it is more than likely that the average temperature will exceed preindustrial levels by 1.5 degrees Celsius. This is important since higher temperatures for a sustained period may trigger irreversible and multiplicative processes that further disrupt the harmony between humanity and nature.
The science underlying climate change is formidably complex. The short synthesis of the latest Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, published earlier this year, ran to 83 pages and was written by a team of some 99 scientists and editors.
The messages, though, are clear. Atmospheric,
