Climate change: on course for “Hothouse Earth”

An alarming report warns that climate change threatens mankind’s existence. Emily Hohler reports.

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The earth may be on an unstoppable trajectory towards a "hothouse" climate that will see 200ft sea-level rises and render huge swathes of the planet uninhabitable, says Ben Webster in The Times. A study by the National Academy of Sciences says that reducing the rise in global average temperatures to below 2C, the goal of the 2015 Paris agreement, may not be enough to prevent an array of feedback mechanisms from permafrost thaw to Amazon rainforest dieback from releasing more carbon into the atmosphere.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.