OPINION - We’re on the ‘highway to climate hell’, UN chief warns world leaders

It’s Monday, the trains are stuffed and your feet are wet, so let’s start with some good news: the worst-case scenario has been averted. It was not so long ago climate scientists were warning that Earth – the only known place in the visible universe you can live/watch Matt Hancock eat marsupial genitalia – was set for warming of four to five degrees celsius by century’s end.