All around us, droughts and floods are getting more severe, while hurricanes and heatwaves hit with greater intensity, wreaking more havoc. While the news of the day is often dominated by the most immediate concerns, it is the longer-term challenge of global warming and climate change that might have the most lasting impact on all our lives. Consider this: the UN’ WMO published its annual greenhouse gas bulletin last Thurs, which showed that concentrations of the key gases in the atmosphere that are pushing up global temperatures reached a new high last year. Carbon dioxide levels reached 405 parts per million (ppm) last year. As PM Lee Hsien Loong pointed out earlier this month, Singapore is already feeling the effects of global warming, having recorded its hottest year and second driest year over the past few years. He also cited the threat posed by rising sea levels as an area of especial concern. But, significantly, it is not all doom and gloom.... Continue Reading