State of the Climate report paints 2018 as a devastating, record-breaking year

Another day, another dire report on the planet’s future. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released a provisional Statement on the State of the Climate in 2018, and the picture it paints is all too familiar: temperature records were shattered, sea ice shrank and extreme weather events devastated every continent in one of the hottest years on record.

Michael Irving