As fall weather bleeds into winter, it can be hard to remember that humanity just experienced its hottest summer in recorded history. We now hear news of billion dollar climate disasters on a regular basis, whether it's heatwaves or flash floods or wildfires. Of course, all these things happened before the Industrial Revolution, but the amount of heat we've added to the planet has supercharged these natural events, making them more destructive and more common.
And things are just getting started. As humans continue to emit greenhouse gases from fossil fuels into the atmosphere, extreme weather events like heatwaves, floods and tropical storms will become increasingly common, according to climate models that we are sadly proving right.
