The terrifying scenes we’ve seen so far this summer are the latest part of a pernicious long-term pattern.

Across the world, the past 11 years have been the 11 hottest ever recorded – and with a super strength El Niño forming in the Pacific which could pour yet more fuel on the fire, that trend is all but certain to continue.

The climate emergency is here – and no one can say they didn’t see it coming.

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This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly

Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

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While renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels in nearly all circumstances, fossil fuels are more profitable, because useful reserves are limited and can each be monopolised by a single corporation, while prices can suddenly take flight in times of war or chaos.

Almost all the very rich are heavily invested in them.

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Murderous heat, an endangered food supply and no net zero: this is the life the radical right wants you to have

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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