Have efforts to deal with climate change failed?

The state of the global climate is alarming, to say the least.

This is according to a report by the World Meteorological Organization of the United Nations.

It says people on every continent are being affected, after many climate change-related records were broken last year.

Ocean temperatures have also reached record highs, with nearly 60 percent experiencing at least one marine heat wave.

According to the report, saving glaciers is a lost cause, which underlies the irreversible nature of climate trends on our planet.

But who is to blame? And can anything be done to reverse them?

Presenter: Imran Khan

Guests

Leon Simons – Climate researcher and board member of the Club of Rome

David Holland – Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere-Ocean Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

Andrew Kruczkiewicz – Senior Researcher at Columbia University Climate School