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GWYNNE DYER: Why we're in deep trouble with climate change

There are techniques, in principle, that could help with climate change, but they're not being used, says Gwynne Dyer

“El Niño is being supersized before our eyes,” said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. “The science leaves no room for doubt: the planet is in uncharted waters, and those waters are heating up. The world is in the danger zone of extreme weather.”

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He’s right: we are in even deeper trouble than we thought on the climate front.

Zeke Hausfather, a leading American climate scientist, warns that 2027 is almost certain to be the hottest year. It will be, he said, “a climate time-machine, temporarily driving global average temperatures to levels not normally expected until the late 2030s.” (Note the ‘temporarily’. We’ll get back to that.)

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), based in Nairobi, reported that the long-term heating will reach at least 1.8 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial global average temperature, although there are “no good outcomes” above 1.5°C. (We have already been just below that level – 1.44° to 1.6° – for the past........

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