Devastating snaps of wildfires, floods and frozen cities prove we face climate apocalypse – World News
As California and Greece battle historic wildfires, China is coping with crippling floods and plagues of locusts fuelled by extreme weather are ravaging African nations
As the UN this week warned of a climate change apocalypse, nature responded in kind – with devastating wildfires ripping through California and Greece.
The unprecedented blazes are a dark illustration of the new report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which said human activity is damaging the world at an alarming rate.
Experts said the report, which it is hoped will trigger a “turning point” in the run-up to the Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow in November, paints a “devastating” picture.
It warns how climate change is already affecting every region across the globe and that without urgent action, heatwaves, heavy storms, droughts and loss of Arctic Sea ice will all increase.
Over recent years, a series of natural phenomenons have proved an all too timely reminder of the human cost of global warming, with thousands of lives lost to disasters.
From this week’s blazes to locust plagues across African nations and biblical floods in China, here is the Earth at its most terrifying extremes.
