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How much trouble do we need to be in, before we admit we are in trouble?

BlackRock is the world’s largest fund manager, which has nearly US$6.5 trillion of assets under management. BlackRock may be wealthy, but that does not make it wise.

"What we describe as a record heat-wave in a few decades, we will simply call that summer. A typical summer's day will be like the most extreme day we have seen in our lifetimes, at this point."

No wonder Trump and the Republicans are excited at Boris Johnson becoming the UK Prime Minister. He is one of their own. He is cut from the same cloth. He is a climate denier.

As our climate emergency deepens, as the once great Arctic icescapes melt before our eyes, and once majestic glaciers break up and melt and disappear, we are left to put plaques in their place to lament our lost world.

Is history about to repeat itself? Fourteen years after Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans and the coast of Louisiana, the region is bracing itself for Tropical Storm Barry.

"If we push the Earth system too far, then it takes over and determines its own response—past that point there will be little we can do about it."

Trump's talk is entitled “America’s Environmental Leadership”, despite the fact that his Administration has pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, denies the climate crisis, promotes fossil fuels at all costs, and is gutting dozens upon dozens of environmental regulations.

OPEC concedes that climate campaigners are "perhaps the greatest threat to our industry going forward".

The head of Strategy for BP, Dominic Emery, has admitted that some of the company's oil and gas “won’t see the light of day.”