, said recent global temperature records were 'exceptional' and 'extraordinary'. 'I think it is extremely worrying,' said Skea, a professor of sustainable energy at Imperial College London. Ocean temperatures have broken records repeatedly in recent days, while China has suffered huge floods and Canadian wildfires have released record amounts of carbon. After Britain's hottest June to date , July being the hottest month on record globally and weeks of debate about how to best meet Britain's){kind=link}
Leaders are failing to connect extreme events such as the wildfires in Rhodes with debates about policies to cut carbon emissions, according to the new head of the UN’s climate science panel.
Jim Skea, the British professor elected last month as chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said recent global temperature records were “exceptional” and “extraordinary”.
“I think it is extremely worrying,” said Skea, a professor of sustainable energy at Imperial College London. Ocean temperatures have broken records repeatedly in recent days, while China has suffered huge floods and Canadian wildfires have released record amounts of carbon.
After Britain’s hottest June to date, July being the hottest month on record globally and weeks of debate about how to best meet Britain’s
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