What will we do as the climate crisis continues to escalate?

THE weather we have experienced this year is just a foretaste of what we will face as our climate gets ever hotter.

- Paul Goodman by email

Parts of the UK have just experienced the driest spring in 135 years and a recent Met Office report warns that UK heatwaves will get hotter and last longer in the future.

This will be on top of regular and increasingly frequent autumn and winter storms bringing damaging and widespread flooding. This is climate change happening in the here and now and the extremes of weather and climate are only going to get much worse.