Irish Examiner view: It's time to treat climate change with real urgency

It is astounding that governments around the world have not rushed to treat climate change as an emergency as pressing as the Covid-19 pandemic

Fire consumes a home in  Doyle, California, earlier this month; pushed by heavy winds, the fire came out of the hills and destroyed multiple residences. Picture: Noah Berger/AP

It is possible, even likely, that we will look back on last week’s heatwave and remember it not as the hottest in recent years, but the coolest of the decades to come.

That is not scaremongering, but a real consequence of the climate crisis and extreme weather events that are already wreaking havoc around the world.