Many of us know that the last year has been calamitous. We know this from our own visceral experience - the unseasonably warm days in winter and even in spring, that tell us that the climate has gone haywire. And then there’s the news. For instance, that more than 16.5 million hectares of Canada has burned this year.

So when a large team of scientists says that even they were stunned by the temperatures around the world this year - that this year will probably go down as the hottest in 100,000 years - you know it’s time to sit up and take notice.

Today, environment reporter Miki Perkins on the latest global climate change report. And which “vital signs” that measure the health of our planet have been found to be pretty sick.

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