Climate: what to do now

Cutting our carbon dioxide and methane emissions, while it is still vital, cannot act fast enough to slow the warming back down to the old rate. Nor can high-tech solutions like removing greenhouse gases from the air or the sea work fast enough to make much difference: the volumes involved are just too great.

An aerial view of a fire crowning on the western edge of wildfire 334 in Mistissini, Que., during Operation Lentus on June 12, 2023. It seems likely that our current estimates of the speed of global warming have been overtaken by events, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Canadian Armed Forces

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

July 30, 2026

LONDON, U.K.—I was reading an article about the current wildfires written in a reputable paper by a recognized “environmental journalist,” but I stumbled to a halt when I read the following sentence: “While the skies over North America and Europe will eventually clea...

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