According to a UN report, 2017 is on track to be one of the three hottest years on record. The cause, it says, is climate change, which the report implicates in “extraordinary weather” around the globe, including extreme hurricanes, floods, and droughts.
The report is meant to inform the nearly 200 countries meeting in Bonn, Germany, on Nov. 6–17 in order to ramp up support for the 2015 Paris climate agreement. The report said 2017 will be a little cooler than 2016 and essentially as hot as 2015.
“The Bonn meeting is due to work on a ‘rule book’ for the Paris Agreement, which seeks to end the fossil fuel era in the second half of the century by shifting the world economy to cleaner energies such as wind and solar power,” says Reuters. President Trump, who has previously shrugged off climate change as a conspiracy put forth by the Chinese, has said he intends to pull the United States out of the Paris treaty.