Editorial: The effects of climate change have arrived in Europe – our way of life will have to change

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Editorial: The weather events of the past week add humility to western calls for action – let’s hope for global urgency in the task ahead

and Belgium have dominated the headlines, not least because they have cost 120 lives and counting, an extraordinary figure for a weather event in some of the most advanced societies in the world. Nature has proved more powerful, once again, disrupting power supplies and mobile phone signals as well as destroying property. It is the same kind of phenomenon that has been observed around the world – the burning of California, Australia, even Siberia in recent times, for example.

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