The fire next time

5-year forecast sees more killer heat, fires and temperature records

There’s an 80% chance the world will break another annual temperature record in the next five years, and it’s even more probable that the world will again exceed the international temperature threshold set 10 years ago, according to a five-year forecast released Wednesday by the World Meteorological Organization and the U.K. Meteorological Office.

The U.S. government, of course, believes all this is a hoax and advocates for burning more [big beautiful] coal. [Everything is big and beautiful in the U.S. now, we are told.] So there's that.