Temperatures above 50C used to be a rarity confined to two or three global hotspots, but the World Meteorological Organization noted that at least 10 countries have reported this level of searing heat in the past year: the US, Mexico, Morocco, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, Pakistan, India and China.

In Iran, the heat index – a measure that also includes humidity – has come perilously close to 60C, far above the level considered safe for humans.

Heatwaves are now commonplace elsewhere, killing the most vulnerable, worsening inequality and threatening the wellbeing of future generations. Unicef calculates a quarter of the world’s children are already exposed to frequent heatwaves, and this will rise to almost 100% by mid-century.

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    3 months ago

    All of whom I was taught experience these temperatures when I was in school in the eighties.

    If they only experienced those temperatures in the 80s, when you were at school, it wouldn’t be hot now. QED.

    Maybe, just maybe, if things are not behaving as expected, then maybe the cause isn’t what theory says.

    Yes. Maybe the cause is that you went to school in the 80s.

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        3 months ago

        No, I was making fun of you, because I found your statement to be so poorly expressed, bizarre, and - where readable - so highly ridiculous to potentially indicate the possibility that your thinking (such as it is) on this issue is beneath contempt. Goodbye now.