Not The Planet We Need To Save

 In 2015, World leaders signed an agreement to try to limit global heating to 1.5C by the end of the century, the current projection we are on will see the Planet heated by 2.7C so the case for cutting carbon emissions has never been more blindingly obvious as freak heatwaves around the globe shows.
In the US, hospitals are treating patients suffering severe burns from contact with pavements while forest fires ravage Greece and Antarctic sea ice levels have fallen to record lows for July so we are inching towards a tipping point which climate scientists and environmentalists have long warned about and the frustration is that we know full well what the consequences will be and what we can do about it, just that the people who can do things about seem to carry on with business as usual.
I read an excellent piece in one of the newspaper by a Climate Scientist who had the great line that we don't need to save the Planet, the Planet will be fine if it's a burning ball of methane or a frozen ball of ice, it's the people on the Earth who are in danger.
Research puts the death toll from heat in Europe last summer at 61,672 people, mostly from heatstroke and record-breaking temperatures in the day grab the headlines but it is the hot nights when much of the death occurs as the body can’t cool down, causing organs spend under stress for longer periods and ultimately death.
In the 1980s, when the planet was 0.5C hotter than before the Industrial Revolution, Europe experienced five to seven days of heatwaves each year. This number has already now reached 30 days and that's at 1.5C, as we go on towards the 2.7 figure than things will become fatally uncomfortable for us humans  on this massive ball of rock which doesn't care if we are riding on it or not.