Even if global warming is limited to just 1.5 degrees Celsius, which now seems unlikely, all glaciers in Yosemite National Park and in Africa will be lost.
The recent flooding has plunged small farmers in sharecropping arrangements further into debt with their landlords — a cycle that has worsened as extreme weather events become increasingly common.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres toured Pakistan's flood-ravaged Sindh and Baluchistan provinces on Saturday. "I've seen many humanitarian disasters in the world, but I have never seen climate carnage on this scale," he said.
