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Earth’s vital signs worsen amid ‘business as usual’ climate policy Since a global declaration of a climate emergency by more than 11,000 scientists, our planet’s health hasn’t improved. Dr Thomas Newsome says Australia’s megafires are just one feature of a problem that hasn’t gone away.
Map of land-ocean temperature index anomaly in June relative to the 1951-1980 baseline. Oregon State/NASA
Twenty months after more than 11,000 scientists declared a global climate emergency, establishing a set of benchmarks for the planet’s health, an international coalition says its update on those vital signs “largely reflect the consequences of an unrelenting ‘business as usual’ approach to climate change policy”.