… and surface water flooding connected to extreme weather patterns. The 2018 Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reviewed over 6,000 sources of evidence and found that, with a rise of 1.5°C, there would be risks to health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, human security and economic growth. A rise to 2°C would be even more catastrophic. It warned that we have only…