As we all know 2017 becoming one of the three hottest years on record, my native United States conversely experienced dangerously cold, Arctic weather, leading to extreme debate about how climate alter could also be the cause of severe cold.
The freezing weather also followed a harsh attack of hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and deadly droughts that had already marked 2017 as a year to remember, a year in which global carbon dioxide emissions also started to increase again.
But these limits are the new normal in a world that has abnormally warmed 0.85 degrees Celsius on average over the past 20 years above preindustrial levels.
There is no doubt that we are pushing our planet to the edge, as the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2018 has alerted.