In the last few days new evidence has been published suggesting that scientists are now 99 per cent certain that human activity is causing global warming.
As if to validate this, temperatures in parts of Northern Europe spiked this week at 44.9C (113F), breaking records and confirming changing patterns that have brought extreme weather and higher temperatures often for sustained periods to regions of Africa, the Americas, the Arctic and many other parts of the world.
Such events graphically illustrate the impact and trend of global warming, raising questions as to what the Caribbean and other states most at risk can do to ensure that the science is acted on.
