Dodging bulletts too long
The heatwave rolls across Europe and, just as in 2003, morgues are filling up, woods and heaths are ablaze, pumping yet more carbon into the atmosphere, nuclear plants are being shut down because their cooling water is no longer cool and all the other sorry impacts are clocking up. Once again, those of us who warned back in the late 1980s that this kind of event would become ever more frequent and intense have to choke back the urge to scream, "We told you so."
