Effects of climate change on the consumer

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The Lomborg school of denialism would have us delay indefinitely. It’s past the time when we should have stopped denying that there are very good reasons why the rational and decent no longer argue. Delay betrays; we need to get on with mitigating the effects.

Drought now officially our worst on record

Dr Jones added temperatures were as high as they have been during the human era, saying the nearest equivalent according to paleo-climatic data (analysing historical weather trends) was a hot period encountered 2-3 million years ago.

“We are still below that threshold of a couple of million years ago but we are starting to approach it,” Dr Jones said.