This year, like in the last few years, we are experiencing the effects of global heating in increasingly personal ways. The summer of 2022 exposed us to ever more extreme heat waves in North America, Europe, and Asia. For instance, the heat wave in India and Pakistan reached temperatures of 49˚C in Nawabshah, Pakistan. North America too experienced devastating heat waves and wildfires. Los Angeles saw even fire tornadoes. Looking at a longer time-period, the western US is in a decade long megadrought and faces severe water shortages. Europe is also experiencing severe heat waves, setting new temperature records, and is in the middle of a severe drought which leaves many rivers at record low water levels. The water level of the river Rhine, for example, has dropped to exceptionally low levels in some areas. This hinders cargo shipping as many ships can only take lighter loads. In Korea, we saw record breaking rainfall in Seoul with about 497mm in a day; Seoul even experienced 141mm ...