Let's talk about the weather

A degree is a small quantity — with the power to transform lives. This week, the United Nations stated the world will most likely miss its target of a 1.5ºC rise in global temperature. Finding carbon reduction plans ‘woefully inadequate’, the UN surmised Earth could warm by 2.8ºC this century.
Termed ‘climate change’, this phenomenon can be hard to fathom, for its impacts are hydra-headed, stretching from the planet to localities and across time. Globally, the number of extremely hot days each year — when the temperature hits 50ºC — has doubled since the 1980s, the BBC finds.


The summer of 2022 saw record-breaking temperatures in Europe and North America, causing forests to burst into flames and rivers to shrivel to dust. Asia-Pacific is severely affected — the Lancet finds India suffered a 55% rise in the loss of lives due to extreme heat between 2017-21. Such heatwaves — and their impacts on water, food and work — will intensify, climate change making these 100 times more likely to occur. As Earth warms, Arctic ice, glaciers and oceans are melting, acidifying and releasing even more dangerous gases. Meanwhile, fossil fuels keep insidiously entering the human body — the Lancet estimates 3,30,000 losses of lives in India from exposure to particulate matter in 2021.

Its multifarious nature makes it vital we talk about climate change. Human progress has been founded on discussing complex problems and creating revolutionary breakthroughs. Adaptation to global warming requires understanding it and here, as Times Evoke’s global experts emphasise, media and multiple ways of public outreach are key. The IPCC finds the coverage of climate change — the 'greatest story on Earth', as Times Evoke’s volume ‘To Nature, With Love’ emphasises — has grown.







Across 59 countries, climate reports increased from 47,000 in 2016 to 87,000 in 2021. Each chronicle empowers us to understand this phenomenon more — and make a new discovery alongside. As we talk about these climes, we start to notice a magical world that lives alongside our everyday lives. This world of iridescent birds, heavenly rivers, regal trees and starry galaxies makes you realise you are part of a planet blessed with unique and precious life. Join Times Evoke in talking about this. It truly is breaking news.