Going West

The region of extreme temperature (around 40 degrees Centigrade) in southern Europe is moving westward (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/13/summer-of-fire-blazes-mediterranean-more-extreme-weather-forecast). Wildfires continue to rage in Greece, where 100,000 hectares of forest have been destroyed. Fires still burn in Italy and Turkey. The Mediterranean region is now threatened. There are already fires in parts of Spain, where more protected forested areas are threatened. Southern France is also a tinderbox. Awful for all concerned. The urgency of the need to counter climate change could, however, hardly be clearer.