This week’s edition of The Economist (September 21st 2019) has climate change as its theme.
The striking graphic on the cover, reproduced in this post, shows in coloured bars the average world temperature every year from 1850 to today.
There are no less than 23 articles in this edition covering the varied, and sometimes surprising, angles of climate change. Who would have thought that climate change can affect the operation of the Panama Canal? Or that 9 of the 10 most affected states in the USA are Republican States. What about the good, bad and ugly consequences of climate change in Russia? We’ve all heard about the risks to insurance companies, but did you know about the climate change artists?
If you don’t have time to read all 23 articles then maybe the briefing article will give you an overview.
Even the obituary page at the back is dedicated to climate change – to the death of the Ok glacier in Iceland that I wrote about last time.
Image Credit: The Economist
